ASUS Readying a 144 Hz 4K Ultra HD Monitor

[Prima.Vera]

In my opinion, 4K is good for huge TVs but not so for desktop monitors. All the 1080 movies looks washedout and low res now, games looks sharper then ever but the textures start to look low even on ultra; you need GPU horsepower to play games smoothly, windows apps support is mediocre to say the least, etc

 

[Gin-year-bread]

They're not exactly scientific/standard where ATSC/PAL standardized 480i, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p.

"2K" generally means 2000 pixels wide. "4K" generally means 4000 pixels wide. "8K" generally means 8000 pixels wide.

They usually describe height has being a 2:1 ratio width:height.

Tech people/companies, like Apple for example would disagree with that. 2K was 2048 in the 90's and it is still today 2048. A 4K iMac "happens" to have a 4096x2304 resolution, which just "happens" to be two times 2K.
Their 5K iMac are also 5K: 5120x2880.

Same thing with 2K / 4K texture maps: 2048x2048 / 4096x4096.