Visit our Graphics Card Buying Guide (opens in new tab) for help. If you're not using an Nvidia SLI (opens in new tab) or AMD Crossfire multi-graphics card setup, you’ll want at least a GTX 1070 Ti (opens in new tab) or RX Vega 64 (opens in new tab) for games at medium settings or an RTX-series card or Radeon VII (opens in new tab) for high or greater settings. 4K gaming requires a high-end graphics card.See our Best Gaming Monitors page for lower-res recommendations if you're not ready for 4K yet.įor those ready for high-res gaming (lucky you), below are the best 4K gaming monitors of 2021, based on our benchmarks. And you can't forget the cost of the powerful graphics card you'll need to game properly in 4K. Yes, 4K is about high-res gaming (and other media), but you're still going to need solid gaming specs, like a 60Hz-plus refresh rate, low response time and your choice of Adaptive-Sync ( Nvidia G-Sync (opens in new tab) or AMD FreeSync (opens in new tab), depending on your system's graphics card). Anyone who's shopped for a 4K monitor before knows that they're not cheap. With a packed pixel army, you can stretch your screen size well past 30 inches without having pixels so large that you can see them. And the best graphics cards, whether from Nvidia's RTX 30-series or AMD's Radeon RX 6000-series, make a move to 4K even more tempting.īut that image quality comes at a steep price. In addition to being the highest resolution that you can find in a good gaming monitor these days, going 4K also offers the ability to expand to bigger displays while still retaining a sharp image.