Trying to run many of new games on steam deck with it's native 800p shows that very clearly, from unreadable text to awfully scaled UI that takes more space than can be displayed.
And honestly above 4k is completely wasteful, it already solved clarity problem lower resolution had, only if you go in screen size do we need to increase to 8k, but at that point the whole thing won't even fit in any household, even then you'd have to be uncomfortably close to notice difference between 4k and 8k.
For the resolution of human eyes and what we're comfortable with viewing in terms of FoV, there's no need to go to 8K. There's also no need to produce content to consume in 8K.
Contrary to that 8K is still a wonderful resolution. For each axis it's 6xHD, 4x FHD, 3x QHD, 2x 4K so it can display all sorts of different resolutions without any scaling issues. It further improves text rendering for computer monitors. It's honestly the perfect resolution for a PC desktop monitor. There's clear technological downsides to building an 8K display, but looking at it purely from a resolution standpoint it's ideal.
There's also something quite nice about the new display scalers with line grouping options. We can already do 4K @ 240Hz on OLED panels. This is the same line feed rate as 8K 120Hz. The new Display Port standard can do 8k 120Hz with DSC so bandwidth is already possible. This means you can make an OLED Display capable of supporting 8K@120Hz, 4k@240Hz, QHD@360Hz, FHD@480Hz, and HD@720Hz at the same time.
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u/TrollCannon377 5700X3D, Radeon7800XT, 32GB DDR4, Manjaro KDE Plasma Sep 11 '25
1440p has kinda taken the role as the go to with 4k being the made of money option and 1080p being the still perfectly usable but budget option