this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2025
200 points (97.2% liked)
Technology
76834 readers
4593 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I bet you can turn it off and just do 1080p gaming. I think steam analysis one said that only about 10% of people have a 4k display. So that's probably why they haven't over spec the system.
In about 4 years they'll probably have a more powerful version as well.
Not sure what the statistics are for televisions though, which is what this is focusing on (home console experience)
TVs are all 4k though. 1080p looks like shit on 4k screen.
1080p looks fine on a 4K (2160p) screen especially if whatever you’re using to display it (be that your machine, receiver, or the TV itself in the case of “smart” TVs) is good at upscaling. Worse case scenario it looks the same as 1080p content looks on a TV of the same size, since 2160p is literally just 4x the pixels of 1080p.
1080p can look bad on a 1440p display though, since it doesn’t go evenly in and you’ll need good upscaling.
And that's why it's better to use 720p in the cases where you can't do native 1440p.
Yeah.
I was with family, on an RTX 2060 laptop and a nice TV. I fed it 1080P for the TV to upscale (since that's the only res it would take at 120HZ or something like that), and it looked good. Those TV ASICs are quite powerful these days.
Well they're really not. The vast majority of TVs in actual use are not 4k.
I have a 4K TV which I basically never use because the interface is so bad. I only have it because I was giving it for free I wouldn't have gone out of my way and bought one because my PC screen is fine for viewing content and it's where all the content is anyway.