Performance hit going from 1680x1050 to 1920x1080?

[resident56]

Im currently running a 22" Acer X223BW that is on its way out. Instead of replacing it with another hard to find 22"(1680x1050) LCD, I want to upgrade to a 24" 1920x1080 monitor. All of the more demanding games (Crysis, Bad Company 2, Metro 2033) run fine in my current configuration. How large of a performance drop should I expect? Im assuming that in a few cases, I will have to drop the AA to 2x down from 4x, and even from 2x to none.

Specs:

Q6600 @ 3Ghz
6GB 800mhz PC6400 DDR2 RAM
Radeon HD5850

 

[Triggaaar]

Instead of replacing it with another hard to find 22"(1680x1050) LCD, I want to upgrade to a 24" 1920x1080 monitor.

Sorry this doesn't help answer your question, but are 22" 1680x1050 monitors hard to find? They're quite cheap in the uk, and I was thinking of buying a couple.

 

[Rhezuss]

Im currently running a 22" Acer X223BW that is on its way out. Instead of replacing it with another hard to find 22"(1680x1050) LCD, I want to upgrade to a 24" 1920x1080 monitor. All of the more demanding games (Crysis, Bad Company 2, Metro 2033) run fine in my current configuration. How large of a performance drop should I expect? Im assuming that in a few cases, I will have to drop the AA to 2x down from 4x, and even from 2x to none.

Specs:

Q6600 @ 3Ghz
6GB 800mhz PC6400 DDR2 RAM
Radeon HD5850

Sure you'll have some performance hit but, seeing you have an HD 5850 and a good CPU, I don't think the hit will be dramatic. You'll still have more than playable FPS in games.

Just for the record, I game at 1920x1080 with a HD 5770 and I can get pretty much every settings on high in most games I play (Civ5, AoC, F:NV, DAO, JC2) and still get playable FPS.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

10-15%.

You should be able to tweak settings to get the same/similar IQ at the same/similar framerate.

Although your video card is powerful enough to handle 1080p. You probably won't even have to change your settings.

 

[betasub]

^ Agree with cuside

Moving from 1.764 Mpixels to 2.074 Mpixels. An increase of 17.6%. Not a big problem, assuming your 5850 isn't struggling with your current set-up. 4xAA should still be OK.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

I've wondered about this a lot. You'd probably get a hell of a lot less performance hit than I would. The 5850 is catered to 1080P gaming due to its power. I'd say its a non-issue. Enjoy the higher resolution!

 

[nyker96]

just look at pixel increase. like the previous gent said 10-15%.

 

[taltamir]

it is really not that big of a deal to run 1680x1050 resolution for your 1920x1200 monitor. it is scaled up perfectly... so enjoy the extra resolution in games where your GPU is fast enough, and just play at lower resolution where it isn't and enjoy the bigger size.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Taltamir, he's going with a 1080 monitor, not 1200. It wont scale that well at all.

 

[resident56]

Sorry this doesn't help answer your question, but are 22" 1680x1050 monitors hard to find? They're quite cheap in the uk, and I was thinking of buying a couple.

I shouldn't have said hard to find. They are available and in-stock at most e-tailers but, there isn't a whole lot of variety. As most of the market has shifted to 1920x1080 for similar screen sizes. (21.5")

Edit: Thanks to everyone for the quick feedback!

 

[Throckmorton]

If you really need to, you can run a game at 1680x1050 and set the monitor and video card to NOT scale the input. You'll have 120 pixel wide black bars on the left and right, but only 15 black pixels at the top and bottom.

The image will end up being about the same size as a 22" screen so you lose nothing!