The only thing that comes to mind as far as gaming is PCVR. Games like No Mans Sky and MSFS struggle hard with even the 3090 Ti. The 4090 still can’t max graphics or resolution but it is a huge difference. Plus other PCVR titles are now able to play at 120hz refresh and/or high resolutions.

With the next gen PCVR headsets already here as well, and many many more around the corner, some will struggle to be used with even a 3080 on the lowest settings.

For desktop gaming though, very very few games.

But hopefully people are not buying the 4090 for just gaming. Hopefully they are purchasing for features such as the dual multiprocessor encoder, for the increase in energy effectiveness, for niche DLSS 3.0, using the huge increase in cuda for scientific research and purposes, for video editing/recording, for AV1, perhaps live streaming at high resolution, or a mix of all of the above with gaming.

No concern of mine. I have DTS as I use an external audio system like a sane person and nothing passed through a tv or the built in speakers with a weak soundbar. I rely on a decent audio setup for sound, not the tv. I only care about a tv’s image.

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I have my pc hooked up to a 55 inch 4K tv. if I’m not using it for work it’s treated as a kickass Xbox experience. And with monitors getting bigger and bigger I definitely think 4k is definitely relevant to pc games.

That being said there’s still reason to spend over $800 or so on a gpu right now and if you do, it’s because you have extra disposable income not because you need it

3080 an 3090 gpus went up in price after 4090 launch. They were trending down for months. Thats how bad it is.

It should be about 3 feet away. I’ll measure it in about eight hours or so after I wake up, just turned my computer off for the night and I’m on mobile right now.

Multiple tests on YouTube. It’s basicly a video that turns your screen into one color to identify burn in

How do you do a burn in test?

How far away are you sitting? I have a 27" 4k monitor about 3' away. I can def tell the difference going from 1080-1440-4k. It could be a non native rez scaling issue. I was hoping there wouldn't be a diff so I can get more fps, but it always looked a little bit off at 1440, and crisp at 4k. But this was with a slower rpgish type game so a lot of still background, talking heads.

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After my 65” Samsung bit the dust I got the C1. I’ll never buy anything else ever again.

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I disagree. I use a 4K LG OLED 48” at just a couple of feet as a desktop monitor (used primarily for racing sims). It is absolutely apparent that the increase in resolution and card power makes for a better gaming experience. 4K 120 FPS gaming requires a beefy rig.

And the situation is even more demanding with VR titles.

I’ve got a 12700K, 32 gigs of DDR5 RAM, a 3090 TI, and a 32 inch Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 monitor that can do 4K at 165 Hz.

The only thing that lets me tell the difference between 1440p and 4k is how high my FPS counter is in games. Beyond that, sitting at a normal distance away from the monitor it’s completely impossible for me to see the difference between 4k and 1440p. Now, at 1080p? Yeah, I can see a difference… But with 1440p at 32”? Nope. Identical.

Unless I scoot forward to be about 2 feet away from the monitor and I do a quick comparison as I switch between resolutions, then I can maybe tell a little bit of something… But with a moving image aka a game that’s being actively played? There is no way.

There’s been numerous tests by people to see if they can tell the difference, and it’s pretty much a crapshoot. Most recent one I can think of is LTT with an 8K monitor trying to see if their staff can tell if it’s native 8K or 4K that’s being upscaled to 8K, and the majority of them had no idea which was which even after being told which one they were seeing. The only way that some of them could slightly tell was with the obviously lower FPS.

Don’t confuse 1080p with 8K, which seems to be what your post is getting at. A 1080p image upscaled to 8K on a native 8K monitor would definitely look different than an 8K image… But that doesn’t mean 8K is worth it or is something to aim for or anything else. 1440p is perfectly fine.

EDIT: I'm 20", 27", and 45" away from my monitor depending on if I'm leaning forward, sitting normally, or leaning back.

Not sure if this concerns you, but I’m pretty sure none of the LG OLED’s include DTS audio codecs anymore.

I bought the 65” C1 immediately after they announced the C2 and had the price drop - my one and only regret was not springing for the 77”

>You'd probably notice the difference even at 8K+

No.

Also, the bigger the screen, the more difference a higher resolution makes lmao

pretty sad the dude had to carve the BUTTON out of the control lol.

Also very happy with my C1. Gonna keep this thing til the wheels fall off, or until home streaming starts making demands it can’t match (Dune was how I convinced my wife to upgrade. That scene with the worm rising on our old tv was just black. The C1 showed the deep detail like we’d seen in cinema)

Eventually, it'll make a perceivable difference in some game.

But, by then, there might be better yet cheaper hardware available.

Just get an Nvidia Shield to go with it

Premium standards on LG Oled tvs, they cant just tell you to plug in a pleb Cat 5e. :)

Lame excuses again . They reduced the contact area compared to the 150w 8 pin connector. At the same time they increased the power transfer. And started wonder why the contacts melted?

G2 is better

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