Monitor Native Resolution

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Hi there,

Could any one please explain what will happen if I try to run my monitor at higher resolution than its native one?, would there be any benefits or enhancements -graphics wise- to the picture on the screen if that is possible??

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Desktop wise usually the screen gets to big so you cant see all of the desktop. Thou gaming wise you can use these depending one which team your on:

DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution) : NVidia's own kind SMAA, you set a higher resolution and the GPU then down samples it to your native resolution in form an antialiasing but with a performance hit.
http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/technology/dsr/technology

VSR (Virtual Super Resolution): AMD's reply to NVidias DSR and practically does the same thing but only on their hardware of course.
http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/vsr

I use DSR with my GTX 970 on not very GPU demanding games so I can use up my GPU's horse power. I...
Desktop wise usually the screen gets to big so you cant see all of the desktop. Thou gaming wise you can use these depending one which team your on:

DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution) : NVidia's own kind SMAA, you set a higher resolution and the GPU then down samples it to your native resolution in form an antialiasing but with a performance hit.
http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/technology/dsr/technology

VSR (Virtual Super Resolution): AMD's reply to NVidias DSR and practically does the same thing but only on their hardware of course.
http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/vsr

I use DSR with my GTX 970 on not very GPU demanding games so I can use up my GPU's horse power. I have used it on Dishonoured and it made a huge difference, my frame-rate stayed at a smooth 60fps with DSR, if I use DSR I run it at x4 of my display which is 4K 3840×2160. I'm amazed my GPU could easily handle it, the MSI GTX 970 4GB is the most power card I have ever owned.

On some games though it is not recommended you use DSR or VSR as your asking a GPU to render pretty much the equivalent of four 1080p displays.

Its amazing when you use it on older games.

 
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So after I have read the link you have posted in your reply for Nvidia, what I understood is that using DSR will not zoom the frame but instead it will increase the sample points as if it was in 4k resolution then fit the rendered frame to be displayed as if it was 1080 (4k zoomed-out), is that right?? and If I got that correctly would that increase the size in MB for each frame and as a result will increase the amount of VRAM in your graphics card that is required to handle the operation?

 
When I have used DSR the VRAM didn't really change in size it just doubled my GPU load so like in Dishonoured I was getting 20-40% usage at native 1080p with FXAA then when I used DSR x4 native resolution I would turn FXAA off (very important as you don't need antialiasing at 4K) and my GPU load would go to 80% my GPU stayed the stand 60C which was good.

These may help a bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSUSYaa6C9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0v-wcOijsg
 

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Thanks a lot