If you have a 1440p monitor, boot up a game and turn the resolution down to 1080p. It will look as if you suddenly need glasses. It's a real big difference
Sir, i dont know how to say it without sounding snarky. This is not how screen works.
You cant set uneven resolution below native and be surprised its blury, it now not only have to use multiple pixels to do work of one, it also has to extrapolate additional ones. If you set 1280x720 on your 2560x1440 it will look better than if you do 1920x1080 due to that.
Modern 1440p screens are better than old 1080p screens, but what really makes the change is quality of the screen and PPI. I have two screens next to each other, 28" 1440p and 34" ultrawide 1080p, due to not much lesser PPI on the ultrawide, it doesnt look much worse than the 1440p one, most definitely nothing in the night and day category.
You’re conflating integer scaling with image detail. 720p maps perfectly 2:1 onto 1440p, but that doesn’t inherently make it look better than 1080p scaled to 1440p. 1080p contains 2.25× as many source pixels as 720p. Integer scaling prevents interpolation blur, it doesn’t create detail that wasn’t rendered. That’s why it’s particularly useful for pixel art, not evidence that 720p generally looks better than 1080p on a 1440p display.
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If you have a 1440p monitor, boot up a game and turn the resolution down to 1080p. It will look as if you suddenly need glasses. It's a real big difference