Does the PS5 Work With 1440p Monitors?
The PlayStation 5 doesn’t support 1440p output, but that doesn’t mean it can’t work with a 1440p monitor. However, if you’re looking to pair a 1440p monitor with your PS5, there are a few important things you should know about.
When you read that the PS5 doesn’t support 1440p, it means that it doesn’t support an output resolution of 2560×1440. The “p” is short for progressive scan and it’s not all that important these days since almost all modern HD devices are progressive scan rather than interlaced video.
The important thing to concentrate on here is the idea of output resolution. This is the standardized final output signal the display device receives. So, for example, if your PS5’s output resolution is 2160p (4K Ultra HD) then your monitor will show that it is receiving a 2160p signal. It’s getting data from the device that tells it what color and brightness every one of the 4K pixels must display.
That is separate from the internal resolution of the device. The GPU inside your console can render images at any arbitrary resolution, including 1440p. In fact, it’s now standard for video games to have dynamic internal resolutions that scale up and down to help maintain stable performance.
On a console such as the PS5, a process known as scaling is used to translate the internal resolution pixel grid to the output resolution’s pixel grid. Scaling is its own topic, but if you have the right sophisticated mathematics, you can enhance the detail in the lower-resolution image so that it looks good on the higher-resolution display.
Since the PS5 handles this internal-to-output scaling internally, the results are always consistent. It won’t look as good as rendering the game at the native resolution of the display, but with modern
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