1080p on a 1440p Monitor: Does It Look Bad? #shorts #gaming #technology

After many questions on our videos of the Samsung's G7 gaming monitor and LGs Ultra Gear 27GP850 regarding 1080p gaming on 1440p monitor, here is a quick comparison of what you can expect.

Technically, you could use a 1440p monitor to game at 1080p but you would either have to settle for a bit of a blurry image or a smaller sized image being displayed.

Should you use 1080p on a 1440p monitor? Well, you can decide on that.

Some console players would be experiencing the same "blurry'ness" described in this video as the consoles cannot display at 1440p.

[KeeseToast]

The more interesting question would be if a 1080p image on a 1440p monitor is gonna look worse than on a native monitor at the same size

[zsombor_]

Every monitor can be used at lower resolutions, but the sharpest image will be at the panel's native resolution where every displayed pixel is exactly one physical pixel in the panel.

[Monsterman]

I'd rather lower some settings in-game then lower the resolution tbh

[Krovo]

Trust me, when You're playing you hardly notice it, you literally have to STARE to see it. I switch from 1440p 1080p a lot however, it does appear slightly more zoomed in.

[elliottramos]

False just set the windows resolution to 1080p and it downscales cleanly in game. And it runs so smooth on a 240hz monitor

[AgentJs]

I like how bro just sneaks in the iPhone text sound😂😂😂

[lucasetche]

Native 1080p monitor looks better than 1080p on a 2k monitor..i have tested it on 3 diferent devices.

[crisnmaryfam]

Sharpness / Blurry experience depends on your hardware and the particular monitor. As does how this subjective image looks on your particular screen. For example, on my screen right now, the 1440 is CLEARLY clearer than that of the 1080p. the edges of the black and white on the "Shoe" looking thing with the circular effects... super defined on the right, barely see the black in between the white on the left.

[mrgndx]

So is it better to have the in-game resolution set to 1440p, but scaling down to 56.25%? (This is 1920x1080/(2560x1440) * 100% )

[youtubeaccount]

I have the same monitor I freaking love it. Bought it new for $340 before tax.

[TriWaZe]

As someone who recently upgraded from a 1080p 24 inch to a 1440p 24 inch, I am massively unimpressed with the quality difference. Even watching raw 1440p footage I shot, I am hard pressed to see any difference between the two. Albeit I have my 1080 set on +8 sharpening which most definitely tightens the gap, but I have always used that setting and completely forgot it was even on.

And mind you the 1440p being 24 inches should be extra sharp cause of the tightly packed pixels. Add on top of that, 1440p as a resolution is tiny and requires a 125% scale which just makes half my programs look like trash. So imo outside of the benefit of higher res for games, anything over 1080 is useless and will only make your life more miserable until Windows does a better job at scaling.

[thegaminggoblin]

Im having an issue where my pc thinks my monitor is 4k, when its a 1080p panel. When ran in 1080p, it makes eveything either blury or overly sharp. Everything just looks off.

[innergenichiro]

Well no shit sherlock! No way 1080p looks worse than 1440p on the same size monitor! That cant be true! The real question should be if it looks worse than a native 1080p monitor of the same size.

[Gidrah]

Would love to see this comparison again only comparing native 1440p, downscaling the resolution, and DLSS Quality/Balanced.

[iNaneek]

Nice video! I gotta question tho. I want a 4k monitor for programming but a 1080p monitor for gaming, ik that 4k is just 1080p but scaled up, but will it have any major motion blur or anything? Thx!

[TheDerkaxd]

Just make your active resolution 1080p, not 1440p, because windows by default downscales active native resolution (1440p) to a lower resolution (1080p) and the gpu driver add some mask to make it look "good" but it looks worse, some times too sharp, with high contrast and too pixelated. Just changing the active resolution to the lower one will make the image soft and less pixelated.

To change active resolution go to "advanced display setting", click on "Display adapter properties" and click "List All Modes". Now select a 1080p with the Hz of your monitor and it will look better (on some 1440p 144/165hz monitors native Refresh rate dont work on lower resolutions, so you need to lower the refresh rate) If the native resolution doens´t change, go to your GPU settings software and disable GPU Scaling, now go to your monitor and change aspect ratio to one you like and sharpness.

Don´t forget to adjust ClearType on windows.

[dreyb]

How about upscaling to 1440p resolution on a 1080p monitor? I think that's even more interesting. What's the effect? Better or worse visuals than at 1080p resolution?

[Thebitbeard]

Just bought my first 1440p monitor to replace my 1080p monitor, and this answered the one main question I had. When I have to drop the resolution, I'll just turn on FSR to AI upscale the 1080p image to 1440p native and Bob's your uncle.

[Roachtalks]

just increase sharpness in monitor settings or nvidia settings

[wds]

just crank dlss or fsr to the equivalent of 1080p