Zkuq said:
According to the latest Steam Hardware & Software survey, about 65 % of Steam users have 1080p as their resolution. 1440p comes next at 13 %, and it's followed by 1366x768 at 5 %, and only then do we get 4K at a little over 2 %. I'd say that if tests need to get rid of one resolution, it's something other than 1080p. |
1080P as a resolution is mostly CPU bound these days as GPU's have grown exceedingly capable.
Even budget 27" monitors are coming in at 1440P now.
For GPU tests, 1080P is a redundant resolution.
| Zkuq said: Well, it's still 1080p performance that counts for those laptops, if that's the case. Anyway, I'd be wary of dropping 1080p tests anyway, because they seem to be in surprisingly much use. I mean, I was expecting to find lots of 1080p usage with Steam, but the actual number just blew up mind. |
The thing with 1080P testing is that review outlets are concentrating on desktop components, not notebook.
And there is a reason for that... Notebook hardware is often not equivalent to the desktop model.
I.E. Notebook RTX 3060 will perform worse than the desktop RTX 3060.
And what skews things even further is that different manufacturers impose different TDP's, clockspeeds and memory configurations... There are Notebooks where a RTX 3050 Ti will outperform the 3060 in another device because it has higher TDP headroom and/or more VRAM than the 3060.
Thus when it comes to 1080P and Notebooks, we need to benchmark notebooks individually and judge each notebook on it's individual merits.
Consequently... 1440P can be supersampled down to 1080P for a very crisp image.
If you are going for the low-end, then it's going to be 720P... For CPU testing, it's also going to be 720P as it removes all possible GPU bottlenecks.
Thus I would argue, even if you have a 1080P display like in my notebook, 1440P performance is still relevant.
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