1080p vs 900p vs 720p Screenshot Comparison: Can You Tell the Difference?Fairly often we hear from developers, publishers, members
of the press or even just from our friend a block down the road that it’s impossible to distinguish between 1080p, 720p or 900p resolutions at certain conditions, normally the size
of the screen and/or the distance from it.
Of course this gets applied to the console war between PS4 and Xbox One, and it often causes endless arguments topped by scientific explanations for or against said impossibility. But can you see the difference? and if yes, at what distance?
This piece doesn’t aim to drop on you a positive or negative answer to that question. What it does aim to do is to help you find it for yourself.
We picked seven PC games, that are the perfect testbed for this kind
of experiment, as they allow us to change resolution at will. Then we grabbed a screenshot each in 720p, 900p and 1080p. Every other detail setting was maxed for all the screenshots in order to ensure parity
of conditions. Finally, we resized the 720p and 900p screenshots to 1080p in order to simulate the upscale done by your console
of choice.
We were also careful to pick games with very different visual styles, in order to provide the widest possible range
of examples. Below you can see the three screenshots for each game, and an animated GIF switching between all three resolutions dynamically. To ensure the best results, please click on each screenshot to enlarge them, and to start the animation.







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