Refresh and Display Resolutions in a Modern Age

David Shaw


17 January


Hi guys .. I happen to know we have a couple of members with fancy monitors.. Myself included so I thought i'd throw out some info for those thinking about upgrading


REFRESH RATE

Your monitor tv has a limit to how many pictures per second it can show..very many are 60z this is a common refresh rate..it means your monitor can show 60 images (frames) per second.


Any frames above 60 are wasted. So if you but an amazing i7 titan rig and play minecraft and it says you are getting 300 good..but you will only see 60 of those frames if your monitor is 60hz. Higher refresh = better.


Common refreshes are (progressive) 50/60/72/85/100/120/144/200/240

Interlaced 23/24/29/30.


DISPLAY RESOLUTIONS

I could go on about texture fill rates but really its about how your system handles resolutions in it most basic form.. the gpu will handle most things but when dealing with higher resolutions the whole system gets involved.


Common resolutions are 1280x720 1920x1080 2540x1440 2880x1800 3200x1800 3840x2160 4096x2160 5120x1800 and many more ..


Think of what's best for your playing experience.. I *can* play bioinf in 5120x1800 but I get 10 frames per second and the textures run out at 2880/3200 so why would I? The right mix can give you much pleasure visually and playing experience


Look im being eaten by flies g2g guys


Hope this helped..did this on my mobile


update:


Resolution Definitions


The first significant improvement came in the early eighties with PYE TV, before then it was very very difficult to get a sharp picture in any sense, yes this is only for TV's but when PYE (the concept not the company) went stateside 10 years later they invented the first HDTVs. contrary to popular belief, it wasn't the Japanese who invented HD, it was the Americans, inspired by British PYE tech.


Standard Resolutions SD


320

480

576


there is also an upscaler for HD that comes from SD, 640p translated to 720p and magnified for 1080.


High Definition


720

1080


the next ones I mention are new tech, make up your own mind if these nom'ers fit.


SuperHD (2K and 3K)


1440

1600

1800


UltraHD (4K and 8K)

2160

2300

4320

8640


as we grow in the tech, perhaps you can see as I that we are becoming less rigid in the choice of screen resolutions and we can choose more and more for ourselves.

:)

Dava