Digital Foundry published an article sharing the results of their test run of the PS5 and Xbox Series X games on Sony's GDM-FW900 CRT Monitor. Ba

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Digital Foundry published an article sharing the results of their test run of the PS5 and Xbox Series X games on Sony's GDM-FW900 CRT Monitor.

Back in the day CRTs were all the buzz and some of them can still compete with modern OLED screens and they can even beat the latest monitors in image quality. Sony GDM-FW900 is one of the best gaming CRT ever, and people are still willing to pay lots of money for this legendary monitor. It has a 24-inch 16:10 screen that can process resolution up to 2560x1600 at 60Hz, plus you can scale the resolution down and thus increase frequency.

PC CRT monitors normally use a 4:3 aspect ratio which makes them a not-so-perfect choice for modern games but this is a great fit for the older ones, especially when it comes to DOS games.

Sony's FW900 handled the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 games like a champ, even downscaled to 1080p, according to Digital Foundry's results. This is because CRT monitors do not really care about native resolution and resolving the input resolution does not require scaling. When it comes to the latest monitors, their fixed pixel grid structure needs interpolation when you are not at a native resolution.