How Resolution Scale ACTUALLY Works

What is 75% of 1080p? It doesn't have a simple answer. It's a topic with a lot of misconceptions and misinformation that I'm hoping this video will clear up, so stick around because I’m gonna explain it in a way that even YOU could understand.

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[PhantomRaider]

This was actually super helpful, this will help me better understand how to better optimize my games when I'm gaming. I'm still somewhat new to the pc gaming world, so this actually helped me better understand resolution optimizing. Thank you Mr Dweeb, much respect and love from the USA. =)

[HedgehogYK]

You opened my eyes and I have found a round about way of calculating this potentially without having to use a calculator.

[dapunisher]

Both educating, and facetiously throwing a little shade at people on the wrong side of the Dunning-Krueger curve? Well done my good man.

[infinityzr]

My suspicions about res scale were correct!!

Always a minimally useful number I was too lazy to figure out anyway. Thanks TechDweeb! 😎

[TheMetalisImmortal]

Love from Turkey! I really love your job and character. I think your channel deserves minimum 400k subs.

[BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

25% of 1440p is 720p, and 25% of 4K is 1080p. I like to think of it that way, because a 1440p screen is four 720p screens, and 4K is four 1080p screens. I like to think of it like that when I'm hurting for screen real estate when doing work, so I remember I can just smush windows into the corner of my 1440p screen using Power Toys (Windows 11 even has it built in).

[baroncalamityplus]

I've only recently started following you and I've been going back and watching your old videos. This one is amazing. You explained resolution scale better than even Digital Foundry has.

[HedgehogYK]

I was having trouble understanding until I thought... If the end goal is the pixel count rather than the rated resolution. I typed in 1600x900=1, 440, 000x.5 or divided by 2=720, 000. And from there you can guess the rest by choosing a close enough resolution that results in that pixel amount. For example, I know 720p is well past 720, 000 so I'll type in somewhere between 576p and 648p and work my way down til I find the exact resolution that makes up the estimate of 720, 000 equaling 1131x636. Gee, can't wait to benchmark 764p in Minecraft on my Tecra A11... No I don't I'm not using an HD60 Pro this time, I can stay at 636p over the course of the MJPEG benchmark.

[Ambiguousss]

Hi TechDweeb, hope you're doing good. This video is very helpful, thanks. Would you please consider concepts like, monitor resolution, retina displays and which should we go for etc for a future video? Also ponder on queries like, why are there no mainstream 22" or 20" 1080p IPS monitors or mainstream high refresh rate 1440p 24" monitors.

[waden]

Your videos are awesome! Keep up the good work!

[kemikal]

Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Now i can better optimize my games for the hardware in my pc

[snake]

lol i am an ACCA qualified person (Basically a chartered accountant), despite that i always calculated resolution scaling as generic percentage of native resolution 🤣😂. I have an old gaming laptop with GTX 980m with 8gb vram, planning to upgrade next year but till then this little beast is still performing well in games. Resolution scaling and tech like Nvidia NIS and amd FSR helps a lot to achieve 60 fps

[luckyshp]

Very well explained for those who don't get it, and think they know what they talking about without checking the facts!

[alitaimoor]

Thanks a lot. That was really helpful. Downloaded the chart too.

[carhurmore]

This helped answer my question on whether or not my graphics card was actually having trouble or not. I was apparently setting my resolution to just about 4k in a game I had no interest in setting to 4k. Sounds like I've got over 144 fps in my tales of arise playthrough after all!

[unkownomega]

Bet that guy won't comment saying your right these days people can't stand being wrong lol.

[barangayhalliksikutibs]

Was curious about render resolution/scaling then this video was the first one to popped up at my search, within no hesitation I've just subbed because of how clear and straight to the point this video, keep up the good work my guy!

[MORGUEZHR]

Games released by PlayStation Studios tell you the exact render resolution of a game next to the output resolution.
Now that I've tested the resolution slider on pretty much the rest of them, I can safely say that the guy that corrected you were onto something. I'm not in the business of telling whether you're right or wrong; I'm just here to say that it might not be the case on every game that the resolution slider refers to the percentage of the pixel count of the output resolution.

[inztrumentallyill]

How dare you not believing my feelings are facts 😤 😃 I watch and like all your videos to support your ambitious and passionate channel

[hannesjohne]

I came here to find out how scaling behavior works in Windows settings (Start > Settings > System > Display > Scale and layout). They are actually the other way round: when you have 1920px as resolution and set scale to 150%, then it's not 1920px*1.5 but rather 1920px/1.5 = 1280px

All calculators I found online are multiplying and not dividing the percentage. However, web designers for example have to consider that your users may have scaling enabled to 125% (scale resolution: 1536px) or 150% (scale resolution: 1280px). This can mess with your break-points and suddenly you display the "mobile friendly" page to your desktop users.