Have a 4K screen for TV & Consoles in the office, but only a 1440p monitor (27", 144hz) for the PC. Tbh I'd hold off as long as possible on 4K for PC gaming as I could given the rising costs of GPU's and monitors, amongst other things. As [MENTION=13863]speedlolita[/MENTION] says the real estate is nice but not as useful for gaming.
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My 4K TV is only 43" but since the first day of loading up Forza Horizon 2 on it the difference over 1080p has always been immediate and very apparent. Proper anti-aliasing always helps with 1080p as Switch proves as its games in docked mode are pretty fugly but I'd have to sit well back to not notice how much 4K>1080p. With my GTX1080 I can hit 4K 60fps in most games too at pretty solidly high settings. Some new releases push it due to optimisation or genuinely being taxing but 1440p/60fps is always in reach as the next step and even that is noticeably better than 1080p. Though getting the right performance in higher titles also means not upping ones that are pointless, shadows can be toned down, Ultra settings are usually pretty redundant at any resolution and at 4K you don't really need to have much or any anti-aliasing going either.
The introduction of 8K though, that's still a good while off for general use at the right price and genuinely pushes the pointless button. Especially as they already have 16k screens in existence meaning the threshold seems to have been hit for consumer sets. It'd be nice if once 4K is standard they finally lean more towards 60fps.
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If I was buying I would want to see the benchmarks first. And the prices of the non-reference/3rd Party cards. My last 3 GPUs have all been MSI's and I'd personally prefer that over a reference cooler. That said it looks like they have changed that long-standing blower on the reference model.
Those prices are awful though, as bad as a lot of people were predicting.
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Originally posted by MartyG View PostThere's no way I can justify £1099 on a graphics card. I'm not sure I can justify £750 on the 2080. Still, getting a 502 Bad Gateway on NVIDIA's shop at the moment, so I can't order one anyway.
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Yeah, the benchmarks will be interesting. It's all well and good pushing how massively great the ray tracing engine is, but if the raster rendering isn't much of a step up for those games that aren't supporting the RTX part, then it's going to be even more difficult to justify the cost to myself.
The lighting details in the demos are very impressive though.
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