Decent enough, well kind of… Considering that nowadays phones have a PPI of upwards of 550 (for example check out Samsung’s Galaxy and Google’s Pixel lineup), gaming monitors are lagging far behind.

Which brings us to our next topic:

It’s true that beyond a certain point the difference in PPI becomes unnoticeable. What exactly that point is is in debate. After all it’s not just the number of pixels in a screen that matter, but also how well the eyesight of a person is and the distance from a person to the screen. Just compare the differences in distance from your eyes to a VR headset, phone, and monitor.

It sure as hell isn’t 109 PPI though – let alone below that. Most of the rest of the monitors on the market have a PPI ranging from 93 to 82. Keep an eye out on the following 69 PPI monitors (31.5″ monitors with a 1920×1080 resolution) as they have the worst pixel density of all gaming monitors out right now. Avoid them if you love your pixels:

But the worst offender of them all and an oddity in general is the largest high refresh rate “gaming monitor”: the HP OMEN X Emperium. As a “Big Format Gaming Display“, NVIDIA’s marketing shtick, it’s basically a TV with lower input lag time and with G-Sync support added. It’s 65 inches wide and has a 3840×2160 resolution resulting in a 68 PPI.

We’ll give the Emperium a bit of a break though since you won’t be sitting as close to it as the others. At least we hope not…

On the bright side there are a number of monitors with a 163 PPI configuration. All of them having a 3840×2160 (4K) resolution and 27” monitor screen size:

Check these out if you want a good gaming monitor that you can keep appreciating even when you’re not gaming.