Good News: PS5 May be Supersampling 4K

The PS5 may be supersampling your games to 4K on 1440p monitors. Twitter users report the console renders 4K before pushing it to 1440p monitor.

[SullysCigar]

Well this would be a turn up for the books!

[Tacoboto]

... nope, this is just how technology works.

If a 1440p monitor accepts a 4K signal, it'll render in 1440p. Because that's the monitor's resolution...

The PS5 isn't supersampling, the monitor is downscaling the signal it's receiving. The PS5 doesn't know it's on a 1440p monitor.

[Fishy Fingers]

Pro did it, no surprise the PS5 does it too.

[neutralgamer1992]

Didn't ps4 pro do this so my guess is sony would do the same with ps5

[Ju]

I'm going to try this. I think the Dell 27" I have does that, but I haven't tried. It does specifically say it does support consoles on the HDMI 2.0 port, however.

[Ju]

Sorry to disappoint. I tried but unfortunately not working on my monitor.

[Teflon02]

It does supersample. I can confirm. Someone broke my damn tv today and now using one of my monitors, the 1080p one since it doesn't do 1440p native. I can 1000% confirm every ps5 game is supersampled. Now I can't find the option to super sample the few games that have 4k modes and use 1080p modes in pro without forcing the 4k mode. So example I can't use the 4k mode in No no kuni 2. It runs 1080p because I apparently can't use the force high res mode on ps4 games like you can with the pro sadly

[Ju]

That's not what that is about. Problem with 1440p screens is, that most do not accept a 4K signal and so the PS4/5 will switch into 1080p mode (with supersampling). But you loose resolution that way. Turns out quite a good number of 1440p monitors actually accept a native 4k signal which then is sampled down to 1440p by the monitor which gives you much better results then downsampling to 1080p.

[nirwanda]

Perfect explanation and you still get downvoted lol.

[LordoftheCritics]

How dare you speak the truth??? Here's a downvote.

[DerfDerf]

I'd hope so since the Xbox One X did it this already at the system level

[lonewolf10]

If the PS5 doesn't output 1440p but outputs at 4k, a lot of monitors will just say signal out of range as they will not accept 4k.

[Ju]

The PS5 (or PS4Pro) doesn't do that if the monitor does not report 4k. You cannot brute force enable a 4k signal. This option will simply be not available.

[lonewolf10]

Indeed

[Zhipp]

It depends on the monitor from what I hear.