Scaling

Display Scaling and Screen Resolution

A laptop can have a very high-resolution panel and still show fewer application windows than an older, lower-resolution monitor. The panel has not lost pixels. The operating system is using more physical pixels to draw each logical unit of the interface. That behavior is display scaling. It separates the pixel grid built into a screen from the coordinate system used to size text, controls, windows, and other interface elements. Treating resolution and scaling as the same setting makes several familiar effects harder to interpret, including large text on a sharp screen, blurry legacy applications, and different workspace sizes on monitors with similar pixel counts.