Given that in the near future I may be buying a 27 inch monitor I thought I would ask a simple question. A 27 inch monitor at 2560x1440 has roughly 1.77x more pixels than a 27 inch monitor at the standard 1920x1080 resolution, however the 2560x1440 can cost twice as much as the simple 1920x1080.

Is it worth shelling out the extra money for nearly twice as many pixels as a gamer or would the extra pixels only benefit a photographer or graphic design artist?