If I use Nvidia's DSR on a 1080p monitor with a GTX 980 Ti can I do damage to my Monitor and GPU?

[BF4FAN]

It doesn't make sense to me, if I go above my native resolution, wouldn't that kill my monitor? Basically, should I use it? And is it safe?

 

[photonboy]

It's safe.
If you have a monitor that is 1920x1080 then you are still sending it a 1920x1080 signal, you just process at a higher resolution first then DOWNSCALE that after similar to current methods that upscale and downscale to perform anti-aliasing.

So the monitor is getting a normal signal, and the GPU doesn't care as it's just crunching numbers like it always does.

Whether you SHOULD use it depends on a few factors so you should experiment with the chosen resolution and smoothing. There's an ideal combination that lets you hit your target frame rate but that varies by the game.

 

[TofuLion]

no, because it isn't actually displaying the higher resolution. DSR just makes the GPU calculate a higher resolution to get a better level of detail, then 'dynamically' scale the image back to your native resolution. nvidia said it best really: "Dynamic Super Resolution renders a game at a higher, more detailed resolution and intelligently shrinks the result back down to the resolution of your monitor, giving you 4K-quality graphics on an HD screen."

 

[StarChief]

Yes it's safe, all it does is render things like textures at a higher rate and displays them on the pixels available. A 980 ti SHOULD be used with dsr on 1080p considering that beast was designed with 4k in mind.