ah hello good people on dmitry hopefully this video won't be too controversial
but it's 2020 i have the means to enjoy all the games that i play in 4k
resolution but i choose not to although to be fair
the framers that i want to achieve and enjoy a really smooth experience
isn't fully possible on a 4k display even with a 2080ti and the 9900k so my
resolution of choice in 2020 is 1080p for basically anything
i play what do you think about that now for the
last five years or so my preferred gaming resolution has always been 1440p
but since the arrival of this new cooler master monitor things have changed it's
given me new appreciation for 1080p gaming
and all the specs on this thing are kind of ideal so we have high refresh rate up
to 200hz it is a full hd resolution of course
we have a slight curve that for a 16x9 monitor i thought would be weird
but it's actually not it's nice for creative tasks this is a big no for me
but it does wrap around your vision slightly giving you a bit of an
advantage and the main reason why 1080p gaming is so important here
is because of its size at 27 inches if i had said those words a few years ago
this would be a big no for me because pixel density here at 27 inches
at 1080p isn't ideal but as you'll see later in
the video having native 1080p at 27 inches is actually a benefit
versus having something high resolution at the same size
and then lowering the resolution to 1080p so here are all my reasons
why i choose to gain a 1080p resolution in 2020
both for technical reasons visual differences and obviously for
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all right so let me begin with a few reasons on why 1080p is so popular
number one gaming monitor pricing it's so much
cheaper to get a 1080p display that is higher refresh rate
than going with something in slightly higher resolution like 1440p
and even 4k at high refresh rates are really inaccessible to most if we look
at really popular 1080p gaming displays on amazon
they're usually at least 100 cheaper and offer higher refresh rate than the qhd
models but they're also exceptions where 1080p
displays are crazy expensive and then to the price territory of
really good 1440p displays like the pixel px7 prime we've
done the full review it's a fantastic display for the price point including
the tough vg 27 aq i'll link those below as with my
cooler master monitor it's a 165 native hertz display it's a v8 panel
with 3 millisecond great degree response time
you can overclock this monitor to 200hz but that is done through the control
panel without any tweaking necessary and we also get response time override
inside the osd that you can select that will
improve the pixel response time because va panels don't generally have the
fastest response time and this way it helps to smooth out
those pixels when they're changing at 165 hertz and higher for the longest
time i really wanted to go with something high resolution and high
refresh rate so it could act as both as a gaming monitor
and something for creative work but as you can see right now i have my 4k60
display here and 1080p 200 hertz and this thing is
only for gaming now the monitor that i really want to try is the lg
27gl 850. that is because of an ips panel so beautiful colors and it has a
one millisecond response time at 144 hertz and qhd resolution so
as a monitor as a hybrid for creative work and
gaming it's a fantastic option and reason number two most likely you are
aware of this one is performance simply put we gain a
massive fps boost when we drop from 1440p
with the highest of possible settings to 1080p with the exact same settings
i'm playing with 2080ti which is extremely powerful but
even the rates at 1080p with the highest possible image settings
i mean the frame rates are excellent but this is
your best case scenario the goal here was to not compromise on the image
quality settings and this is how 1080p really fits into
that equation now i was also wondering what about keeping the 1440p resolution
but lowering some of the image quality settings in order to get
better frame rate but still maintaining the crispiness
of what are you looking at and in some games you actually gain better fps by
keeping the resolution at 1440p but lowering some of the image quality
settings but for as long as i've been gaming
i always prioritize image quality settings before resolution
just seeing muddy textures and poor lighting
is not worth it to me with a little extra detail especially at 1440p where
all these imperfections are visible are more
visible i should say and so that is why i really keep playing
at 1080p even when image quality is important and with the rollout of many
games that support ray tracing like 1080p is the maximum resolution
that i'm willing to go in order to get really good frame rate while still
giving me the whole rt experience so i played call of duty modern warfare
a single player campaign metro exodus control all with maximum rt
settings just because that that is the future and
it looks so much better versus when rt is disabled
maybe not for call of duty but shot of the tomb raider
metro exodus and control absolutely fantastic another point about ray
tracing is that nvidia is improving on dlss or deep learning
super or sampling so that gives you an advantage of a
higher resolution display so you can be playing at 1440p
but performance is not suffering with dlss enabled
but it does tend to introduce a slightly softer image at that resolution
so still going with 1080p gameplay is a benefit and so with this
prioritization on image quality and frame rate
i know that there is no compromise when i choose 1080p resolution now a really
interesting technical advantage i've discovered
with using a native 1080p 27 inch display
is that it is actually sharper versus my 1440p
monitor when i use that in 1080p resolution and that makes sense because
the pixel readout here is one to one versus when you
are looking at a 1080p image from a 1440p display
there is a pixel interpolation happening therefore giving you a softer
edges and all the little things are not as defined as they should be
of course the 1440p image looks better but
when you're talking about lowering resolution to gain frame rate
and to increase image fidelity by increasing image settings
that's where native 1080p monitors really are so important now one more
thing to mention is that this is my first time trying a 27-inch
1080p display but both mike and eber have expressed their concerns because
for some of the panels they've tried had exhibited really bad screen door effect
in terms of like you'd be able to see the spacing
in between the pixels when you're sitting at the reasonable
distance to the monitor luckily the va panel used here on the cooler master
display is awesome so you don't get that effect
everything is super sharp and i kept the sharpness of the discrete 50
which is the default and the standard picture profile just be careful
with the 1080p tn options because there's some really bad
gaming displays out there that are cheap but i mean they're cheap for a reason
and the last reason why 1080p is so important to me is because of
competitive advantage in multiplayer i'm sure i am
not the only one to do this but i lower all my visual settings and bf5 and cod
and csgo just to remove visual clutter improve my frame rate
and improve my latency too what this generally does is remove all the visual
clutter that otherwise make it very difficult to
notice enemies and even though bf5 has gone through a bunch of
visual patches that make it easier for you to see
your enemies and distance and close up and in dark areas
it's still a big advantage by lowering all the settings like removing
tessellation removing shadows removing bullet impacts because it's such a fast
paced gameplay that you never really notice it in call of
duty it is exactly the reasoning why i remove everything just because there
is no time to walk around and enjoy the scenery even
the textures and the weapon models are not as important as being on top of
the scoreboard of course i finished bf5 and call of duty single player campaigns
and the maximum visual settings just to actually enjoy the gameplay but when it
comes to multiplayer visual fidelity and quality really
doesn't matter in cs go for example aside from lowering my visual quality
settings to low i even change the aspect ratio to 4x3
and actually reduce the resolution so i have a stretched image
therefore giving me larger bodies that are visual
on screen that makes it much easier to aim with so there's that really big
element of competitive advantage by having 1080p resolution and least
amount of visual candy on screen
oh
so those are all my reasons on why i still gain a 1080p resolution
in 2020 despite the hardware it's all about giving me the best frame rate
possible without compromising on the visual image
quality and i find that 1080p especially when
you're talking about a native display i mean 24 inches would look
super sharp 27 inches not as sharp as what you would get with the 1440p with
the same size but it is totally enjoyable in both
single player and multiplayer open world really pretty
games really simple games i don't know maybe my eyes are getting
old but i have no issues using a 1080p 27 inch
display but let me know which resolution and size of the monitor you play with
and what type of settings you normally gravitate towards
when it comes to new games multiplayer single player whatever let
me know in the comments i'm a dimitri thanks for watching
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