TCL unveils 27-inch 8K, 65-inch 8K 120Hz OLED, and 57-inch 8K 240Hz mega PC gaming monitor

[eastmen]

I'd be surprised if that's true for monitors. It's definitely true for tvs. Ultrawides are making a mark, but they're kind of replacing dual monitor.

Steam hardware survey is 60% 1080p (those will be 24") and 15% 1440p (those will be 27"). 4k displays are like 3% (likely 32" or more). The top selling gaming monitors are all going to be $250 or less.

I think a lot of steam results are from laptops. 1080p still seems very popular on the cheaper laptops out there and for awhile 1080p was the way to get 120-240+ hz monitors but that is now changing . I also feel that monitors are now finally dropping in price for higher resolution/ size monitors. I bought a no name 32 inch 4k monitor like 6 years ago for $400 . Now I can get a 42 inch LG 4k monitor with free sync for $200. Of course I saw some $50 1080p black friday monitors in the 24 inch range but i'd imagine that is the minority of purchases now.

 

[Scott_Arm]

The top selling gaming monitors on amazon and newegg are all pretty much 1080p 165-175Hz displays. There's some 1440p, but not a lot. The 240Hz displays start to register, but they're still a little out of the range.

The most played games on steam are far the most part competitive games that people play 1080p low graphics to get max fps. Then there's overwatch, fortnite, valorant and league of legends with huge player bases that are basically the same. 1080p low for max frame rate. It's just the reality that 4k is not super relevant in the pc space because it's dominated by competitive games. 4k is definitely the leader on consoles where people are playing at dog food performance levels, and mostly enjoying narrative adventure games.

I bet there are more 4090s being used on 1080p displays than all other display formats combined. It's just people trying to max out 240Hz+ displays on Call of Duty.

 

[Davros]

Steam hardware survey is 60% 1080p (those will be 24") and 15% 1440p (those will be 27").

Out of interest I looked at pc world (largest p.c retailer in the uk)
just looked at the first page (20 monitors)
1080p 24" = 6
1080p 27" = 8
1080p 32" = 2
1440p 32"* = 1 *ultrawide
4k 27" = 2
4k 28" = 1

* there was 1 23.8" 1080p monitor I counted as 24"

 

[Scott_Arm]

Neue OLED-Monitore von LG: Von 4K mit 240 Hz auf FHD mit 480 Hz umschalten

Den neuen OLED-Monitor UltraGear 32GS95UE bewirbt LG mit der „Dual-Resolution-Funktion“, zwei weitere wurden vorgestellt.

www.computerbase.de

32" 4k 240Hz OLED that can be switched to 1080p 480Hz display output. That's very cool. Great to have different options for movies, single player games and competitive shooters.

 

[davis.anthony]

1080p on a 32" monitor will look shit though.

 

[homerdog]

1080p on a 32" monitor will look shit though.

While this is probably true, it doesn't have to be. A 720p Blu-ray looks really good to me even on a big screen. Aliasing and/or DLSS blur is the killer. To combat this on my 27" 1080p monitor, I set up a fake resolution (~1440p) in the NVCP. In Witcher 3 I set the game to run at 1440p with DLSSQ which then got downsampled back to a 1080p output. Pretty weird but there was a lot less aliasing than native 1080p, and it was a lot less blurry than 1080p DLSSQ. Adding frame gen and it still ran fine on my 4070 with everything including RT at max. And I could still read the HUD and text just fine.

 

[Davros]

The 1080p mode could actually be native with black borders otherwise all monitors higher than 1080p have a 1080p mode and a 720p mode and a 480p mode ect

 

[Scott_Arm]

I'd guess it's integer scaling in the panel. The thing is 540Hz is going to look ridiculously smooth, especially with an oled. Yah, you'll be able to see the shape of pixels, but the smoothness is going to be insane.