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I have a 4K120 display I use on my computer. My 3070 can't play games from the past 7 years at this pixel clock. I'd be happier with 4K240.

Games absolutely need more vector horsepower.

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Yeah, agree with 4K240. That would be awesome. But NVIDIA doesn't seem to think so, considering they skimped on DP 2.0 on a GPU that actually has the horsepower to do 4K240 (especially with DLSS 3).

120hz feels so choppy when you're used to 240hz.

Nvidia doesn't think so simply because you are a tiny niche that has such "requirements" - and also the money to burn for it.

Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with it - just you are simply not the market that is making them money anymore.

Exactly.

It's a $1600 GPU. It's already aimed at that niche.

> 120hz feels so choppy when you're used to 240hz.

Every time I read comments like this I feel really good for being able to be perfectly happy with my crappy 24'1080p60 monitor. I swear, every time I see a 4k display or, god forbid, (120|240)Hz display in the wild I just close my eyes immediatly and dread that I could no longer be happy with my lesser experience.

This is one expensive treadmill to walk, moreso with gpu manufactors gutting consumers for the last few years.

I don't think it's such an expensive treadmill. With 400 dollars[1] you can already get a quite decent 1440p, IPS, 240hz display. Which isn't much compared with what the rest of a PC costs.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-M27Q-Monitor-Display-Respons...

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