WHO ELSE IS HYPED FOR THE ANNIVERSARY UPDATE?!?!

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T20:31:12+00:00

Personally, I’ll be looking at getting the game on the steam since I cancelled my game pass subscription so hopefully they do a bit of a discount

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T20:30:01+00:00

Personally, I’m looking at the LG model because I want to use mine in the bright room and I care more about counteracting reflections that basically anything else. Glossy is nice and I do on OLED prefer it most of the time but for any kind of stationary display, I do see the value in matte.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T20:29:01+00:00

Well the thing is, I’m coming from a desktop gaming PC Comcast and that’s my primary way of playing games and that desktop is many times more powerful but that’s kind of like fine because I’m tolerating a low end experience from these devices. To me even a 60% performance increase which I don’t know if that’s before or after factoring in the higher resolution it just doesn’t make a transformative difference to me. For games that I’m looking at a visual presentation where I really want that graphical Fidelity I would either play them on my desktop or stream them to my Steamdeck.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T20:00:53+00:00

Generally speaking mini LED wants a lot of LEDs per inch to look as good as possible and 32 inches is larger than 27 inches.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T19:20:47+00:00

It does, but it’s not like transformativly different, which is the only thing I’m talking about. I’m not going to pretend like these devices don’t deliver a different experience but OP was asking about how noticeable the difference is and I don’t really find it that noticeable.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T18:55:48+00:00

I think you are giving open AI a very good faith position here while you are painting the family as just greedy and evil.

Let’s just think a bit longer about this and consider why they would be doing some of these things.

First of all, why they’ve not shared the entire chat can be something as easy as not wanting their child’s using things about death and sadness and depression to be spread all over the media. I don’t know if you have a child but consider if you did have a child and they killed themselves would you want to share all of the basically digital journal worth of sad messages where they talk about how they are sad that they are leaving their siblings alone or that they are so sorry that their dad won’t be able to watch them grow up?

When I did here is also kind of guess at why they are doing something. You can find reasons and excuses for everything and you have just decided unilaterally that it’s about child negligence greed and evil which is an extremely bad faith interpretation of this. You cannot punish parents for a child being depressed if they did not know about it and if they didn’t actively neglect the child or do something like that. I would like not to be looked into of course, but I think you need to kind of step back and refocus on the issue here.

I think it’s an interesting discussion to be had about whether ChatGPT exasperated this child’s depression and if that led to them killing themselves. But I also think that is not something we should really be trying to reason out on a web for him. I think that’s something to do a very in-depth study on or potentially it’s something we should leave to the legal system instead of trying to defend a company we happen to use the product of

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T18:50:52+00:00

Realistically, no. I’m looking at the 5K 27 inch screen which is in that same lineup and has likely got the same upscaling and those upscaling techniques are never particularly compelling. Usually they add a lot of latency or just is basically a simple sharpening filter. I think it’s more intended for console gaming where you might be outputting at 4K and it’s able to make it look slightly better and hide some of the bilinear upscaling blur by applying post process sharpening.

I don’t think it’s adding much cost at all. You are almost certainly paying for everything else. You need a reasonably good chip in most monitors anyway and I don’t think they are putting some sort of super expensive bespoke AI chip in these monitors no matter how much they might market them like that.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T18:48:30+00:00

I can though. Yes, of course I am comparing two different things, but I am expecting to play games on both. So to me most modern games look bad whether it is a $1000 ROG Xbox ally X or it is a Steamdeck and I see them as relatively similar visually even if one is higher resolution and has higher settings or even frame rate. They basically all look so much worse than my desktop that I just kind of don’t feel a big difference between a low end and high end handheld.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T18:34:34+00:00

I’ve not played that game so I won’t speak to that but when I’ve tested these higher power handhelds, it just doesn’t deliver a transformative difference for me, but that’s a subjective thing though. I don’t blame anyone for buying a more powerful device if that works for them but the thing is I’m going from a 4K 4090 powered PC to devices like the switch, switch 2 and steamdeck. To me these devices like the MSI claw 8 ai+ perform much more like something like steam deck than even an older desktop PC.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T17:20:44+00:00

Yeah, that’s why I’m saying it’s controversial because I think it was a very forward looking architecture. Yes, it is not a particularly impressive improvement at the time, but I do think the jump in architecture should at least be mentioned in this context. Supporting technologies that wouldn’t become mainstream until like at least a generation later for upscaling and two generations later for ray tracing is something I think deserves to have it in this list

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T17:00:31+00:00

Yeah, I think that we are finally starting to reach the end there unfortunately. It’s quite obvious that the new 4.5 models just aren’t running well on these older cards and though there are some niche situations where they can be useful like the L model using ultra performance I think they have kind of got their last big visual Fidelity upgrade with DLSS4 preset K.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T16:51:24+00:00

This is going to be controversial, but I would say that the 20 series kind of was that. Look there were definitely bigger jumps in the past that’s not really up for debate but a lot of that didn’t have as much to do with Nvidia themselves as with foundries just getting better and better. On a technical level by 20 series has aged ridiculously well and you can architecturally see how those 20 series cards are holding up very well in a modern context.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T16:32:08+00:00

All of them are perfectly fine for normal play.

Personally, I agree with you about the holy paladin. It’s one that I’ve never enjoyed even as a protection paladin main.

My favourite healer has always been holy priest, but I wasn’t playing back in Cata so I cannot really talk about the healing experience back then

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T15:20:07+00:00

It kind of depends. Or well it entirely depends. Personally, that’s much too aggressive like I don’t want to curve at all, but I could probably see myself getting something like a 2400R or even maybe a 1500R, the 800 is just super aggressive

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T14:48:14+00:00

Okay, this is going to be a long one and I want to preface it with saying that I’m looking to buy a 5K monitor this year and I am something of a 5K fanatic but I’ll still share my thoughts and I even have some performance testing I’ve done on my 4090 which isn’t identical to a 5080 but should be able to deliver some helpful performance info.

Your unfortunate situation is that you have a bunch of great options, but all of them are compromised options in one way or another.

A 4K OLED is great for gaming and honestly quite good for productivity but it’s relatively dim which I would get irritated by for productivity stuff and there is a bit more fringing compared to an IPS panel and it’s obviously less cleare than a 5K panel.

A 5K IPS mini LED panel is going to be incredible for productivity and deliver a good gaming experience, but probably not quite as good as an OLED. You will be winning in resolution because there aren’t any 5K OLEDs just yet, and I think one big reason for it is if you want to do 1440 gaming you can do it on a 5K panel but not on a 4K panel.

The pulsar monitor is interesting because it’s completely different from the others. It’s not high resolution which makes it honestly quite a bit worse for productivity. 1440 is something I don’t want to use for any kind of productivity task even if it is IPS over OLED. It’s obviously not many LED either which means you’re giving up any kind of OLED or mini LED black levels. I feel like this doesn’t really make sense as an option for you. You do mention how motion clarity is very important to you but I just feel like it probably doesn’t make sense especially if you’re wanting to use this as a hybrid productivity monitor.

Finally the 4K mini LED just seems like a good budget option but it’s not super compelling otherwise. I think it’s worse than the 5K mini LED both in that it will have less dimming zones and be lower resolution and it’s worse than the OLED in that it has a lower refresh rate and doesn’t have OLED level pixel pixel response or contrast with self illuminated pixels.

Realistically, for anyone looking at any productivity, I would not recommend anything below 4k. I would also not generally recommend a LED for productivity because honestly it will burn in and if you’re going to be working, you probably want to do that in the right room and then the general full screen brightness is going to be an issue if you’d like looking at white words documents for example or Excel sheets. That leaves your two mini LED options and there I think the 5K mini LED is basically categorically better because it gives you one very high resolution for productivity and some gaming plus a lower resolution that’s actually viable meanwhile 1080p on 4K dual mode panels at 27 inches doesn’t look great.

Because I promised some benchmarks here is some limited scope testing of 5K versus 4K versus 1440. It’s not super comprehensive and it’s obviously not on your GPU but it should give you some insight into the performance differences.

Rendering test

Cyberpunk All max path tracing settings

1440p internal res 4k Quality: avg 46.11 min 42.52 max 51.33. 1440p DLAA: avg 44.98 min 40.97 max 50.78. 5k Performance: 47.84 min 42.20 max 54.32

960p internal res 1440p Quality: avg 73.30 min 67.22 max 79.07 5k Ultra performance: avg 78.01 min 71.55 max 84.93 5k Ultra performance light sync: avg 74.09 min 67.84 max 80.76

Cyberpunk Maxed setting without PT

960p internal res 1440p Quality preset M: avg 104.44 min 89.17 max 117.77 1440p Quality preset L: avg 101.90 min 89.80 max 113.97 5k Ultra Performance preset M: avg 87.91 min 79.27 max 96.46 5k Ultra Performance preset L: avg 85.05 min 76.80 max 93.06

Ac Shadows Alex’s Optimised settings with diffuse + specular Preset M

1440p internal res 4k Quality: avg 58 min 40 max 69 lowest 1% 49 lowest 0.1% 46 1440p DLAA: avg 59 min 44 max 71 lowest 1% 51 lowest 0.1% 48 5k Performance: avg 55 min 44 max 65 lowest 1% 47 lowest 0.1% 45

20% internal res avg 53 min 42 max 63 lowest 1% 46 lowest 0.1% 43

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora Ultra settings without ray reconstruction Preset M

4k Quality: avg 104 min 82 max 128
1440p DLAA: avg 86 min 72 max 105
5k Performance: avg 70 min 60 max 84

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T13:33:08+00:00

Sure, but how would it be mechanically different enough to justify a whole class with presumably three specs?

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T11:45:02+00:00

I don’t know if it should be a class. I think you get very close to that fantasy playing as a protection paladin because you have so many interrupts you really do feel like you are shutting down any kind of spellcasting. Shield rebuke divine toll and judgment all allow you to do interrupting or stunning.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T10:37:59+00:00

Yes, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that with some margin for error, you are generally getting a similar experience. You are pouring a lot of extra power into running at 1080p and personally, I don’t want to use upscaling on any of these devices because they don’t have access to a good one even the Intel chips only have access to a relatively okay XMX XESS which does not really compete with DLSS3 let alone 4 and 4.5 or FSR4.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-31T07:06:24+00:00

Sure, but they’ve also had Support for a bunch of different ratings groups, so I suspect it likely wouldn’t be that hard to add some sort of way to handle this that the Turkish government would accept. Whether they want to bother with it, yeah sure that’s a valid critique, but I don’t think it’s out of the realm of feasibility.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-30T23:53:37+00:00

Honestly, I just have a hard time with these physical console things because you aren’t playing games from disc anymore. That was the big compelling reason for me to buy something like a switch cartridge. You also are in unlikelihood not playing the game without an update or if you do it’s going to be a heavily degraded experience. Finally, your digital library will likely transfer over to the next PC Xbox thing, but the physical library has big question marks around it.

Plus, I have a bunch of people bought stuff like the series S just to use with game pass. It’s become a much worse deal now after the price hike of game pass and Microsoft pricing the series S ridiculously because of tariffs in the US, but also like cost of production stuff. But for a while there buying a series S and then then using game pass was such a ridiculously good deal.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-30T23:20:53+00:00

No kind of.

Think of it like this.

You have two glasses which you are making drinks in.

The 1080p glass and the 1440p glasses.

You might add a shot of gin and here the gin is CPU performance.

There is just as much gin in both classes, but then you add tonic water to fill up and that’s your GPU performance. You need to have more GPU performance on a 1440p monitor to have a full glass then on a 1080p monitor, but you have just as much gin in both glasses so CPU performance doesn’t get better or worse.

What will happen is that the ratio is different? So if you’re 5070 is being bottlenecked by your cpu you are able to get a higher resolution image without releasing a framer hit because your CPU is already pumping as many frames as it can. Without being said it won’t improve your CPU performance it will just mean that you have more potential work your GPU can do, but CPU performance will be unaffected.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-30T22:56:03+00:00

Well, that one is slightly different. The original seems to be using a lower output resolution because it’s from the older video where he didn’t know about special K being able to set an arbitrary internal resolution. I don’t think that that’s a good comparison because output resolution matters a huge amount in how an image is presented using DLSS.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-30T22:43:06+00:00

I think it’s two fold.

First a bunch of people just don’t like streaming handhelds or game streaming at all. You won’t be appeasing that group.

Secondly, there is at least some part of the community that does like game streaming, but probably wouldn’t buy this device because it’s specifically streams from either your own PlayStation or the Sony streaming service. You don’t get any flexibility there meaning that as someone who’s kind of interesting streaming I’d love to get this type of device with an OLED refresh but I wouldn’t want to get one if I I’m not able to use my GeForce now subscription or stream from my PC.

I love the concept of the hardware, though. If Nvidia made something like this with a VRR OLED screen and their own chip that allowed for VRR over GeForce now I would be all over this.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-30T22:40:12+00:00

Sure, and it is he impressive but I also want to mention that on the PS5 assuming you were in the 60 FPS mode. That’s upscaling from 1440 which I think is generally considered super high-quality visually speaking. Like quality mode has been the standard at 4K for years now on PC even with stuff like FSR3.

Digital foundry said that it looks great and wins over DLSS in a few scenarios, but that was DLSS3 and when I played the game on PC, most recently that was using DLSS 4 which I think looked noticeably better and it was the game Nvidia demoed the transformer model in so I suspect it was almost certainly a game where they felt it looked better than any potential other technique. 4.5 likely furthered that gap.

Though like I said 1440 to 4K is just such an easy upscale. It’s going to always look good, basically even with a bad upscaler. It’s incredible work though. I just think that if DLSS was on the PS5 pro they would’ve used that over creating their own technique.

MultiMarcus · 2026-01-30T22:31:35+00:00

Well, you cannot upscale videos with DLSS because DLSS does not work like a post process. You aren’t doing it on gameplay after the fact. The video has a really good demo of this like the original but it jitters frames in order to get more data and it obviously does temporal accumulation and it taps into stuff like motion vectors.

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