1440p vs ultra wide 1080p

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paxieishere

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My specs are
i7 3770k
r9 390
8 gb ram
I play mostly single player games a few exceptions are the division and upcomming overwatch.

Im playing at 1080p res right now.

Which would be the better buy a 1440p ips monitor or a ultrawide lg ips with freesync?
 
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JackNaylorPE
If we are talking about the Predator / Asus PG series than the 1440p is the way to go. These are the 2 premier screen son the market today. I'd think about a 2nd 390 though.

Freesync will work adequately with just the one card. However, unlike G-Sync, Freesync does not come with a hardware module for ULMB technology. Once you break 60 fps, Motion Blue reduction will be more desired that G-Sync or Freesync. So when you are selecting a monitor, you will want to pick one that has the hardware module added by the monitor manufacturer. Of course this is the reason that G-Sync costs more than Freesync so adding this module to the monitor for Freesync does come at increased costs

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R9 390 will struggle on 1440p only if you push always to max for the new AAA games.
Not from VRAM point but already from brute performance.
If you can lower the settings, R9 390 is quite nice for 1440p.
144Hz is very nice despite of that you can not use FreeSync above 90Hz.
If you can run above 90 fps on 144Hz monitor, any Sync is not really needed in my opinion.

On 2560x1080, R9 390 will perform better compared to on 2560x1440.
Some new AAA games can still push R9 390 to struggle on that, if you max everything.
The thing is there no 144Hz 2560x1080 IPS monitor on the market.

2560x1080 = 2764800 pixels
2560x1440 = 3686400 pixels
1920x1080 = 2073600 pixels <-- the best for R9 390
2560x1080 has about 30% more pixels than 1920x1080.
2560x1440 has about 70% more pixels than 1920x1080
Let say if you have now 60fps (not due to VSync) on 1920x1080, you get about 40 fps on 2560x1080 and on 2560x1440 only ....well...you do the math yourself.
Any fps below 40 makes me feel somehow dizzy and wanna puke after some minutes.
 
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If we are talking about the Predator / Asus PG series than the 1440p is the way to go. These are the 2 premier screen son the market today. I'd think about a 2nd 390 though.

Freesync will work adequately with just the one card. However, unlike G-Sync, Freesync does not come with a hardware module for ULMB technology. Once you break 60 fps, Motion Blue reduction will be more desired that G-Sync or Freesync. So when you are selecting a monitor, you will want to pick one that has the hardware module added by the monitor manufacturer. Of course this is the reason that G-Sync costs more than Freesync so adding this module to the monitor for Freesync does come at increased costs

 
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