So which is better, a 4K monitor at 60hz or a 1440 at a higher refresh rate ?
I will be using a nvidia 3080 in a new pc. Does the faster refresh rate of the 2k give better FPS, or is the clarity of a 4K monitor a more important factor?
I’m asking about Dell because I have a large gift card that will reduce the price.
Will I even be able to see the difference between 2k and 4K?
The 1440 has larger pixels , .272mm but a faster refresh rate at 4ms
The 4K has ,182 at 8 ms refresh rate or maybe faster in a different option.
if you’re going for the 3080, not getting the 4K monitor is a waste. It’s made for that.
Regarding the refreshrate of the monitor; it doesn’t give any FPS in applications at all, and since current hardware will not run MSFS over 60FPS anyways, I don’t really see the point.
Ok makes sense. Thanks I don’t really play other games at this point but I may try DCS.
I just picked up a 3080 and a 4K monitor and the game is simply amazing and I really can’t wait for the improvements with future patches.
I will tell you that 4K lighting is a little messed up in that the lights are larger than they should be and the blue taxiway lights becomes purple. They need to work on that.
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Flights sims run just fine at 60Hz, if you’re not using it for fast paced action games like FPS’ then you don’t need 144Hz, just my 2 cents.
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Add my 2 pennies to yours!
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Go 4k.
I’m just on a RTX 2070 Super so I run it at 4k resolution then use 70% render scaling. Know that it isn’t ideal but until I upgrade the GPU it runs pretty well.
60Hz is just fine, especially if your mostly just interested in flight simming. You still may not hit 60 FPS with the 3080 with 100% render scaling, especially if your maxing all the details out. Someone may correct me but I haven’t noticed where anyone has reported getting a consistent 60fps on the 3080. Of course there are not many 3080s out there ATM so not many have benchmarked on MSFS. Either way your a lucky dog snagging a 3080. I envy you. After watching AMDs Ryzen 3 reveal I am curious to see how the new RX 6000 series ends up doing but you can’t go wrong with the 3080. Enjoy 
Given the state of hardware today, I’d rather go with a 55" HD TV.
DCS is a similar resource hog, don’t expect it to be able to push out 144 FPS any time soon.
I think TVs have a slow response rate compared to a monitor.
Why 1440? Can you see the difference between 1440 and 4K on a 32 inch’s teen?
4K 60hz you can always upgrade the GPU in 3 to 4 years time.If you just run flight sims getting a 144hz monitor would be a waste. Clarity is more important in a flight sim or any game that deals with visuals.The sim is smooth @40fps.
To add a wrench in the works here. For flight sims, the best monitor I would say is a good curved ultrawide.
You’re very right. At 100% render and 4K ultra everything with multiplayer and live traffic, I bounce around 40-45 FPS with a gigabyte 3080 OC. Only when there’s nothing around me (no cities) can I reach 60 FPS consistently.
I recently dropped my render down to 80 and I can’t really tell the difference, but it got me an additional 10-15 frames, which is nice in busy areas. Before the drop I would get 20-25 frames at a busy and complex place like JFK, but after the render drop, it stays between 30-35 in those areas, which is pretty solid for now.
So dell does have a 32 inch 4K curved monitor for a reasonable price. Sounds like a good choice listenening to you guys. I guess I can always dial down the settings.
As I recall a higher res monitor makes text smaller for other uses. I hope it’s sufficiently large to compensate. I think there’s an app that splits the screen and allows multiple programs to appear in each half. I wonder how orher programs look in 4K. I use daz3d and I’ll. Check how that works on 4K. It’s hard to go look at one these days
With a new Zen 3 Ryzen 5900/50X and a 3080/90 you may get close to that 60 FPS. Curious to see how that combo does in areas like LAX and JFK. Still probably won’t get 60 FPS consistently on maxed settings but I think that may be someone’s best chance to hit it. That and I am sure we will get a bit more optimization on the coding side and with DirectX 12. They won’t get a 33% increase on optimization alone but it may be just enough to get it there.
Considering all that back to the OP just makes the case for a 4k monitor with lower hz refresh. Heck if your just mostly running flight sim I’d go with a 4k UHD TV. If you got the money go for a LG OLED. I have a LG OLED B9 and it will run at 120hz… (not sure with current video card hardware will run it at 120hz because it needs HDMI 2.1) but it will run 60hz right now and it is G-Sync with a firmware update.
I think read the idea that a dp connection is gives better refresh rate. Maybe at 60hz that doesn’t matter.
I believe your right about the DP, at least compared to HDMI 2.0. HDMI 2.1 should be superior to DP though hardly any kind of hardware will output 2.1 atm.
Edit: Honestly I dont know enough about DP as I have hardly ever used them so maybe it is still superior to HDMI 2.1. RTX 3000 series does output 2.1 so that would be awesome to set it up with a LG OLED 4K at 120hz. I believe LTT on YouTube has a pretty good video about the new HDMI 2.1 when he set up a new LG OLED UHD at his house for gaming.
EDIT 2: It appears Display Port 2.0 is superior to HDMI 2.1 in most instances. DP has 80gbps bandwidth compared to HDMI 2.1 of 48gbps. Though I don’t know of any TVs that have a DP connection.