Got a laptop with a 4K display and a GTX 1070?

So I'm getting a new AORUS X5 with a 4K panel and a GTX 1070.

So what resolution do you people with the a 4K display and GTX 1070 game at?

Do you lose anything gaming at 1080p or 1440p over using the it at its native resolution?

Thanks.

 

GTX 1070 is kinda not powerful enough to handle games at 4K, at most high settings.
You need a GTX 1080 to flesh out everything the screen has got to offer.
And also Windows 10 have terrible scaling in 4K.
About the second thing,I would say that it is not going to worth it.You should play games at the screen's native resolution-4K.
That way,the screen isn't going to be wasted.

 

With a 1070 you could play some modern titles at 2560x1440 pretty comfortably. But I would personally game at 1920x1080 for better FPS. Mostly because it’s a 15” screen it would be hard to see too much of a difference between the two.

4K is tough to run even with 1080ti. Lighter games run well, but if you play a lot of open world types games then you’d need something strong to comfortably play it. Or a good G-sync panel to help smooth out screen tearing.

 

I found I was unable in most games to tell when they weren't running native on the 4K monitor at uneven scales (e.g. 2560x1440 or 2880x1620) due to the insane DPI scaling things very well. This was back with 980M SLI driving a 4K panel. Certainly running 1080p at 2:1 on it looked exactly the same as on a native 1080p monitor.

Windoze desktop scaling is now a minor issue really and each update it gets better. 4K (and higher!) is now common enough that high DPI plugin packs are available for lots of freeware programs and utilities too, aside from all the professional software that's been "DPI aware" for a while now. I run two 4K panels with different DPI scaling on each so the problems that exist, I get the worst of them, and they're niggles at best and IMO in no way detract from the clarity of text (ohmahgerd curves!) and desktop real estate for task switching, but YMMV.

Overclocked 1080 SLI is really what's needed for smooth 60fps 4K gaming without downgrading settings.

Do check though that the 4K screen you're thinking of is not one of those "fake 4K" pentile diamond matrix subpixel array things as they do look quite inferior to the traditional true square RGB subpixel screens. I don't know if the pentile abominations have yet fully died the death they deserve.

 

If you have good eyes 4K looks amazing even on a 15.6".

Downscaling to 3K or 2.5K when the GPU can't handle 4K still has much more detail than a native 1080p display. Beware that 1080p when downscaled will blur despite the 4-1 pixel ratio. You'll have all the detail but the extra pixels will round out colors instead of having hard color borders.

As for FPS it depends on the games. If you play slightly older or less demanding games then a 1070 should hold 60 fps fine at 4K. Modern demanding games will drop below 60 at times on my 1080, but it's never been enough to make me drop the screen res under 4K. A 1070 will dip a bit harder though. Gaming at 4K has made me decide to get the GTX 1180 as soon as it comes out (which keeps getting delayed...).

 

I can never understand when someone says they play on 1080p Ona 4K screen cos there’s no difference...trust me there is. Even if you drop it from ultra to high on4k it still looks better that 1080p ultra. Even On a 15” screen.
The 1070 may not be perfect for 4K but I’d still get settings out of it I’d be happy with on 4K resolution.
Mind you some of the advice given is from players that need excess of 100fps so would prefer 1080p.
I’d be happy with 4K 60fps in stead of 1080p. Any thing above is a bonus.


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I will be playing FPS like Far Cry 5, along with the Far Cry back catalog, pCars, Fallout 4 & 76, and anything else that piques my interest.

Would a 1070 and 7820HK be enough to hold 60fps @ 1440p or ~40fps @ 4K in say Far Cry 5?

Thanks for all advice.


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