Computer monitors: is higher resolution better? Part 2

Resolution kills frame rate

Frame rate is the number of still images that pass through your monitor or television every second, commonly called frames per second or simply FPS. The eye and mind work together to perceive movement at around 30 FPS. However, that simple explanation has led to many myths about the need for only 30 FPS, and at the same time it grossly underestimates the complexity of human sight and perception. A higher SPF has many benefits, and studies have shown that people can perceive and identify things as high as 220 SPF. Most TV movies and movies are shot at 24 FPS and 30 FPS is considered the minimum acceptable FPS for gaming, so most consoles are designed to perform exactly that, but most computer monitors They run at a 65Hz refresh rate, which is 65 FPS. New monitors are coming out that can run at over 200Hz. The benefits of higher frame rates include smoother gameplay and help competitive gamers reduce their reaction time by shortening target identification time. The more frames you can get the better! However, playing in 4k will ruin your frame rate.

How does the resolution affect the frame rate? Every frame has to be rendered. It takes twice the power to render 60 FPS than 30 FPS and that makes sense, right? A 1080p frame has 2,073,600 individual pixels, but a 4K frame is 8,294,400 pixels, which is exactly 4 times more than 1080p and requires 4 times the computing and graphics power to render each frame. In part 1 of this series, we learned that you probably can’t even see all the pixels you’re looking at if you have a 4k monitor and now you’re losing the frame rate for pixels you can’t see. Even worse is that if you have a 144hz or 200hz gaming monitor, you won’t get anywhere near those refresh rates, even with the best gear on the market! Even a $ 1200 Nvidia Titan X in a top-of-the-line gaming build averages around 60 FPS in 4K.

So now you have pixels that you probably can’t see that are lowering your FPS, unless you spend a fortune on hardware to get higher FPS for pixels that you probably can’t see, which could also prevent you from getting the most out of your expensive 4K monitor. high refresh rate if you buy one of those.