Non standard resolutions more taxing?

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Does a resolution like 1360x768 make the GPU work harder than say 1920x1080? I know its a lower resolution, but its not a standard resolution. Most monitors these days run 1920x1080, but this older tv/monitor I have is 1360x768. Would FPS in games get worse at 1080p on a monitor whose native resolution was 1080p?Or do you think it would improve the whole gaming experience?

Here are my specs:

Operating System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-6350 13 °C
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-78LMT-S2P (Socket M2) 31 °C
Graphics
SHARP HDMI (1360x768@60Hz)
1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (NVIDIA) 36 °C
Storage
465GB Seagate ST500DM005 HD502HJ ATA Device (SATA) 33 °C
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
NVIDIA High Definition Audio
 
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cst1992
I know, that post wasn't intended for you.

Anyway.. the aspect ratio doesn't matter -- what matters is the pixels and textures.
A 1360x768 monitor cannot display a 1080p picture. It'll still display 1.04M pixels compared to 1080p's 2.07M.
A bottleneck is actually dictated by things like pixel and texel fillrate, floating point performance(in GFlops) and memory space and bandwidth.

Long answer short -- no. standard or non-standard doesn't make any difference.
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I know, that post wasn't intended for you.

Anyway.. the aspect ratio doesn't matter -- what matters is the pixels and textures.
A 1360x768 monitor cannot display a 1080p picture. It'll still display 1.04M pixels compared to 1080p's 2.07M.
A bottleneck is actually dictated by things like pixel and texel fillrate, floating point performance(in GFlops) and memory space and bandwidth.

Long answer short -- no. standard or non-standard doesn't make any difference.
 
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The other posters are right. The graphics card wouldn't care if your resolution were only 1 pixel high. It would perform the same as 1080p if you lined up 2.07 Million pixels in a very long, thin "display" that was 1 x 2,073,600.

Ha! Can you imagine that? Maybe it would make a good thermometer for the side of the freeway, to show how much money a charity raised. I don't know. The point is that the graphics card's limit is a pixel count.
 
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