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Valve Claims Steam Machine Outperforms 70% of Current Gaming PCs (www.techpowerup.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Most people's TVs aren't even big enough for people with average eyesight to see a difference between 1080p and 2160p.

Why do people keep repeating something so easily disprovable? You can tell 1080p and 1440p apart on a laptop, let alone 1080p to 4k on a TV.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    It really depends on your viewing distance and the size of the display. If you're sitting 15 feet away fom a 55 inch TV, the difference between 1440p and 4k is going to be a lot less noticable than when you're 2 feet from a 32 inch monitor.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It's all about PPI. Pixels per inch.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Usually when people post a source, the numbers say that at median screen sizes and distances from the screen, 4K isn't perceptibly better than 1440p, and the person writing it up as an article has misunderstood the conclusion as saying 4K isn't better than 1080p rather than that it isn't better than 1440p. TVs tend not to be made with 1440p resolution, so upgrading from 1080p gets you right to 4K, skipping the sweet spot.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    If you have 20/20 vision, you need to sit 2 meters away from a 55" to be able to tell the pixels apart. You might see some improvement from 4K but it wont be that significant. If you are 3-4 meters away, you need a bigger TV if you want to start thinking about gaming in 4K.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    3 meters away from a 55" TV gives you a very poor 23 degree viewing angle, let alone 4. The maximum SMPTE recommended viewing distance for that screen size in 16:9 is 2.3m.

    In other words, for 4K to stop being perceivable, you have to make your experience worse in other ways.

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