980M and 4K gaming with older titles

I realize a single GTX 980M won't cut it at 4K in current games but what about older ones, circa 2009-2012? It would be nice to have the boost in resolution but still have a "perfect" scaled fallback at 1080p for the games that can't manage it. Thoughts/insights/snarky comments?


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You asked for it: I'd like to see you try it with The Witcher 2, which is so-called one of your older titles.

 

depending on the title it runs some games very well at 4k resolution, but as SRSR333 said it really depends on the demands of the game, you can always compromise, i run a lot of my games at 2048x1152.

 

If you are willing to just do some OC just on the stock vbios, you can think of it as a 970 with functional 8gb of VRAM.

 

Agreed.. It should be fine with those older titles on 4K...

 

It actually doesn't matter for me now. I went to a local store to look at 2K and 4K monitors, including several G-Sync ones. When scaled down to anything other than their native resolutions, they looked pretty awful. I'll be sticking with 1080p for the foreseeable future.

 

That's always the problem. The same thing happened when the first 720p TVs came out with no content and again with 1080p.

Id be lying if I said I didn't miss 1200p though. Things just looked better at 16:10 IMO. My M17xR1 had a very nice screen indeed.

 

I wasn't surprised that 1080p didn't look great on the 1440p monitors, but I expected that resolution to be much more accurate on the 4K ones. That was the more disappointing aspect to all this.

16:10 is one thing Apple will always have in its favor, though I will admit I am intrigued by the Surface Book. If it had a more powerful GPU, I would very well have considered it.

 

Honestly, without Ubersampling, it might run okay. Also, Witcher 2 is unoptimized in lots of ways. However, I was able to play it in 3D maxed with no Ubersampling at 1080p with my two 780Ms at stock and get over 60fps most of the time, so 4K no Ubersampling single 980M might very well work just fine.

Most games work fine at 4K if they were made prior to the current-gen consoles launching (except BF3, that game just runs awfully no matter what). I even managed to max (yes, with AA) Black Ops 2 at 4K with my two 780Ms and get near 60fps all the time (a little above sometimes too). BF4 as well, I turned off MSAA and ran it at 200% resolution scale and I got near 60fps with a slight OC on my cards.

You can handle most older titles at 4K without much issue on a single 980M. The difference between late 2013 & onward and early 2013 & prior titles is rather large in terms of unoptimization levels. I don't know whether to blame Maxwell's GPU line, the current-gen consoles, or both.