That's Just How It Is Now

Gaming monitors have evolved faster than GPUs can keep up. You've got these absolute beasts pushing 4K at 200Hz, meanwhile your RTX 5080—supposedly a high-end card—is sitting there like a confused cat on a couch, barely managing 4K 60fps without begging AI upscaling (DLSS) to carry it across the finish line.

The irony is delicious: we've built displays that our hardware can't actually drive at native resolution. So now we're dependent on neural networks to fake the pixels we can't render. The monitor is flexing its specs while the GPU is out here doing mental gymnastics just to pretend it belongs in the same room.

Welcome to 2024, where your display writes checks your graphics card can't cash without algorithmic assistance.