Can You Tell the Difference Between Native Resolution and Virtual Super Resolution?

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radhamescambero

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I planning to buy a monitor 1080p 144hz or 1440p 60hz, but if I use VSR then I can play games at 1440p 144hz, I have an rx 480 and it can runs some games at more than 120fps, I play a lot of AAA games and Esport games so it is a difficult dilemma.
 
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VSR, like DSR, renders the game at a higher res, then down scales it to fit your native res. It's pretty much indistinguishable from a higher res though, even though it isn't in actual number of pixels once down scaled.

It doesn't change the refresh rate though, that is always limited by your display's refresh rate. It's also basically only good for older games unless you have a pretty powerful GPU. It takes the same amount of graphics power to run it at the higher res being rendered, even though it's down scaled afterward.

So basically whether you can use virtual 1440p has just as much if not more to do with your GPU's capability, than your display's capabilities, and also how hardware demanding the game being played is.
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VSR, like DSR, renders the game at a higher res, then down scales it to fit your native res. It's pretty much indistinguishable from a higher res though, even though it isn't in actual number of pixels once down scaled.

It doesn't change the refresh rate though, that is always limited by your display's refresh rate. It's also basically only good for older games unless you have a pretty powerful GPU. It takes the same amount of graphics power to run it at the higher res being rendered, even though it's down scaled afterward.

So basically whether you can use virtual 1440p has just as much if not more to do with your GPU's capability, than your display's capabilities, and also how hardware demanding the game being played is.
 
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hang-the-9

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Running a game at a higher resolution then scaling down creates an effect like a good anti-aliasing with sharpening the image from jagged lines. Try it and see how things run. With an RX 480 I would stick with 1080 at 144hz for smooth gameplay instead of trying to upscale the image then down to 1080.
 
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