4K or 1440p OLED with a 5070 ti?
I currently use a 1440p IPS (VG27AQL5A), and I’ve been waiting 5–6 months for tandem OLEDs to finally reach my country. Now that they’re here with the XG27AQWMG and MO27Q28G, I’m stuck deciding whether I even want to stay at 1440p anymore.
This is probably going to sound insane to most people especially that 1440p is such a loved resolution, and maybe it’s just a me problem, but 1440p genuinely looks bad to me in a lot of games. On my current monitor, games rendered at native 1440p with DLAA somehow look both blurry and oversharpened at the same time. It looks like someone smeared vaseline over an oversharpened image
Before anyone says it’s a setup issue: I’ve tried basically everything. All possible DLSS presets including Model L at DLAA which is extremely overkill, model L is made for ultra perf, multiple driver reinstalls, tweaking sharpening, different AA methods, etc. Nothing really fixes it. DLSS <= quality also introduces noticeable ghosting, shimmering, and disocclusion artifacts depending on the game
Ironically, the only way I can get games looking “right” to my eyes is using DLDSR 4K. The image suddenly becomes playable, but obviously that defeats the entire purpose of owning a 1440p monitor because FPS tanks hard
That’s why I’m hesitant now. If I buy a 1440p OLED, I’m worried I’ll end up doing the same thing, running DLDSR 4K in everything just to make the image look acceptable, which would give me worse performance and worse image quality than just going with a 4K OLED. But going 4K OLED is also risky because I’m on a 5070 Ti, and if it struggles too much, my only real upgrade path is a 5080, which costs around $2,000 where I live. On top of that, reselling used OLEDs at a good price here is difficult because people are paranoid about burn-in, and I can’t just return the monitor unless there’s an actual defect
So I’m basically stuck between:
- buying another 1440p monitor and worrying I’ll still hate the image quality,
- or going 4K OLED and potentially regretting the performance hit long term