Turn, your fancy monitor could have a 4K display inside

Unsatisfied with the sharpness of your new QHD monitor? Thanks to the power of the economy, your display could actually have a reduced 4K panel, one that does not make your image quality or refresh rate favors. The worst part? You can not even increase them.

A report from the PRAD ProAdviser display review site claims that some unidentified manufacturers use 4K UHD panels (3840 x 2160) instead of QHD panels (2560 x 1440) appropriate to equip advertised monitors as displays. at QHD resolution. In order to present itself as lower resolution displays, 4K monitors need to be reduced. This leads to a loss of image sharpness due to the dissonance between the desired resolution and the native resolution of the panel. The reason? Manufacturing shortages. According to the panel makers who spoke to PRAD, it is sometimes cheaper to use and reduce UHD panels instead of the lower resolution QHD panel.

Normally, discovering a secret superpower in your gadget is pretty cool, but in this case, using a 4K panel can cause more problems than you think. For one, there is no way to actually access this potential 4K resolution if it is sold as a QHD display. Thanks to the firmware that prevents you from scaling, the screens are locked at a "maximum" QHD resolution. Not everyone needs a 4K monitor, although the increased image resolution is nice. QHD monitors have incredibly fast refresh rates and are perfect for games when 4K scene rendering is too intensive on a graphics card.

Determine what type of monitor you need from a trip to your monitor's data sheet. The appropriate QHD monitors have a larger pixel pitch or pixel width (the distance between the center of two sequential pixels) than the UHD 4K monitors. If your QHD monitor has a pixel pitch of .233mm or more, then you are working with the real deal. If it has a pixel pitch of 0.16 mm, the same as that of a UHD monitor, you probably work with a scaled-down display. Owners with eagle eyes can probably confirm their suspicions by looking at text or small icons, but you should probably contact your manufacturer for clarification.