Can someone please do a test for me (1080 vs 1440p)?

[neorichieb1971]

At work we are thinking of enlarging our screens to 32" from 24". The reasoning is that we need more sessions on the screen and its hard to see.

My thoughts were that if you replace a 24" with a 32" and the resolution doesn't change from 1080 that your only enlarging the size of the windows, but not really getting any more real estate.

So we use wintegrate sessions at work to access universe and unix sessions in a tiled screen format. At the moment the 24" 1080 screens are doing 6 sessions per screen. Going up to 32" would just make them bigger.

What happens if you go 1440p? Can you fit more tiled screens? Is the text readable?

So if you have a 1440p monitor setup can you please tile something 6 times in 1080 mode, then do the same in 1440p mode. Then in 1440p add a few more tiles and see how many more you can get before the text is unreadable. The idea is that we need to know which 32" monitors to get. I don't want to get 1080 versions if the benefits are just that its bigger text. The real benefit is having more sessions on the screen at once.

Hope this makes sense.

I can email a photo so you can see what I'm talking about.

Thanks all,

Richie.

[Fudoh]

1080p on 24" and 1440p on 32" have almost the same dpi, so you're good. Text/icon size stays the same, while you gain 77% more desktop space.

[ZellSF]

I felt the jump from 24" 1080p to 27" 1440p was a massive improvement in desktop space without having problems reading any text. "32? You'll have no problems.

[BONKERS]

1440p really is your only choice. Since they don't make many other sizes anymore. 4k would probably be the next jump

As others have mentioned the PPI is as follows

1080p 24" : 91.79
1440p 24" : 91.79

This means everything will be the same size, but you will be able to fit more windows into the same space, or have the same number of windows taking up more pixels but at essentially the same size ratio.

6 windows divided equally at 1080p gives each 345,600 pixels to work with for each.

With each window at the same size on a 32" 1440p monitor you will won't quite make it to 11 full windows 10.666666666666666666666666666667.

But you can instead have 6 windows with nearly twice as many pixels 614,400 x 6 = 3,686,400 (3686400/1440=2560)

[neorichieb1971]

Thanks everyone for the great insight to monitors and the their resolutions.

Now I just have to find a manufacturer that my company can buy from that makes a 32" 1440p screen. I found a BenQ. At the moment our supplier is Dell but I only found a 21:9 34".

[Fudoh]

Acer, BenQ, Samsung, Philips, AOC and Asus each have one 32" 1440p model. HP as well, but theirs looks more like a TV with speakers on the side.