Asus and Nvidia announced on Tuesday a 24-inch PC monitor with the ability to update its image 500 times per second. The monitor should increase desktop monitors from the maximum native refresh rate of 360 Hz they see today, while giving a mysterious new twist to an old panel technology.
Rightly called the Asus ROG Swift 500 Hz Game Monitor, it manages high refresh rates with a lower resolution. The 1920 × 1080 screen takes advantage of a new version of the TN (twisted nematic) panels called E-TN, with the “E” for sports. According to Asus, the E-TN panel offers “60 percent better response time than standard TN panels,” and in its own announcement, Nvidia stated that the E-TN panel provides “maximum motion and clarity.” But neither of them detailed how technology differs from normal TN.
Standard TN panels have become less common among PC monitor versions, as IPS (plane switching) and VA (vertical alignment) panels continue to pick up speed while being known for stronger viewing angles. the case of IPS, and larger contrast ratios. , in the case of VA. Those who opt for TN are willing to sacrifice some image quality in the name of speed or often lower prices. It is unclear how much sacrifice E-TN may require (plus a maximum 1080p resolution) or how much premium it will have compared to current standard TN monitors.
Today, you can buy 360 Hz monitors, including some that can overclock to 390 Hz, but 500 Hz is a new level. The panel maker behind the monitor was not specifically named, but Nvidia’s announcement highlighted its work with partner AU Optronics, which we recently showed on 480 Hz monitors and laptops, with the first in the 24-inch TN variation. . BOE has also been linked to a 500 Hz panel that uses an active layer of TFT oxide (thin film transistor) instead of the more common TFT active layer of silicon.
So who needs the fastest PC monitor yet? According to Nvidia’s announcement, “this benefits all games and gamers, not just competitive games and sports professionals.” However, if you prefer a sharper image than faster speeds, you don’t have a powerful enough system to push 500 fps, or play graphically intensive games where 500 fps are not feasible, you won’t fit into “all games and categories of player “.
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Nvidia said that when combined with a system that can drive 500 frames per second, which of course is not short, you could track your movement more easily. In a video shared by Nvidia claiming to demonstrate the benefits of 500 Hz, it showed a virtual character moving across the screen on a screen of 144 Hz, 240 Hz and 500 Hz, and the movement seemed faster with refresh rates and of lower frames.
Similarly, Nvidia claimed that pushing 500 Hz and 500 fps would result in fewer ghosts, as you can see in the following image:
Enlarge / Nvidia compares ghosts at 500 Hz and 500 fps.
At Nvidia’s virtual conference for this week’s Computex conference, Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of Nvidia’s GeForce business, said the Asus 500Hz monitor has the “lowest latency” of any monitor with Nvidia G-Sync. Nvidia also pointed to a system latency challenge it recently performed with Steam gamers of various skill levels to play with latency levels of 25, 55, and 85 ms. The challenge led Nvidia to conclude that lower latency “improves your score regardless of the ability to aim” and made “difficult targeting tasks possible”.
In addition to Nvidia G-Sync, which helps fight screen tears when the frame rate of the Nvidia graphics card and the monitor refresh rate do not match, the Asus 500 Hz monitor will have the analyzer Nvidia Latency, Reflex Nvidia claimed that playing a game on the monitor that also supports Reflex “can further reduce system latency,” which you could then measure with the monitor’s Reflex feature.
The next screen also supports Nvidia Vibrance mode, made for gaming and “allows more light to travel through LCD crystals, giving colors new levels of vitality and allows you to choose highlights and highlights that can reveal an enemy’s position.” . stated Asus.
Neither Asus nor Nvidia shared a release date for the Asus ROG Swift 500 Hz game monitor. Asus did a demonstration of its first in-person 360 Hz monitor in January 2020, and these were available later that year; although, at the time of writing, there still does not appear to be face-to-face demonstrations of the ROG Swift 500 Hz.
You can watch the Nvidia 500 Hz demo below:
The fastest gaming monitor in the world: 500 Hz with Nvidia G-Sync technology.
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