1080p native vs 1080p on a 4K monitor

[Harsh Kumawat]

Let's take games for example. Is there a difference between having a 1080p monitor and gaming at 1080p, and having a 4K monitor with playing games at full screen 1080p?

 

[Eximo]

It should scale perfectly if the monitor was designed properly. GPU performance should be the same, the monitor might have increased input lag, or less, depends on how the scalar does it. If it runs at 4K and down samples or if it upscales from 1080 to 4K by default.

 

[Harsh Kumawat]

It should scale perfectly if the monitor was designed properly. GPU performance should be the same, the monitor might have increased input lag, or less, depends on how the scalar does it. If it runs at 4K and down samples or if it upscales from 1080 to 4K by default.

Thanks for the reply, this helped. Also, I sometimes video edit and play games where I prefer to work with 4K but don't have the graphics power for 4K gaming and I was wondering if games are recorded on a 4K monitor but played at 1080p what will the recorded resolution be?

 

[Eximo]

Hmm, for that I think you would have to set your desktop resolution to 1080 to make sure. But I imagine most of the recording programs will let you set it. If you are using a hardware encoder, almost certainly you can set what resolution and compression quality it will do.