There seems to be a new peak in gaming when it comes to display devices, that is, what you actually see everything on. Gaming monitors have made great strides in refresh rates over the past few years, and now they’re moving to the next goal with a record-breaking monitor from Acer. Its novelty already reaches 600 Hz with a refresh rate. That’s four times that of the first wave of gaming LCDs, where 144Hz used to be common.
600Hz gaming LCD
This monitor is called Acer Nitro XV240 F6. It is one of the screens that are adapted for maximum “performance” during, for example, competitive gaming, so it has a relatively small diagonal of 24.1 inches and a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels. And it also uses a panel of TN technology, which is otherwise rather abandoned. This technology has poorer image quality mainly due to poorer viewing angles, but it has one advantage. TN panels achieve the fastest frequencies and the lowest response from LCD technologies, which is why eSports monitors have become a sort of ecological niche for them.
The panel should have a response time of 1 ms or 0.1 ms for the fastest gray-gray transitions. The monitor with it provides a frequency of 600 Hz, which you can use if the monitor is connected via DisplayPort 1.4. Alternatively, an HDMI 2.0 port is available for laptops or consoles, but it only supports a maximum resolution of 240 Hz. By the way, adaptive refresh is handled by the standard FreeSync / VESA Adaptive Sync technology. More precisely, the monitor has the listed FreeSync Premium mark.
The panel has 8-bit colors and 99% sRGB coverage, which probably refers to the normal mode, as HDR is probably also supported, or better said, wide-gamut display with 95% DCI-P3 coverage. However, the maximum brightness is only 400 cd/m² (DisplayHDR 400 support is indicated).
Acer says that the monitor will go on sale in the first quarter of next year and the price should be $600 (CZK 16,400), or €899 in Europe. That doesn’t seem like much to us, because even after adding VAT, it doesn’t fit at all at the current exchange rate. However, it is a recommended amount, in reality the price can be better in stores, reflecting the dollar price (recommended prices for monitors are often overestimated against practice).
500Hz a 520Hz IPS monitory
Otherwise, Acer also presents two 27-inch monitors with slightly lower frequencies: Model Nitro XV270 F5 with a diagonal of 27 inches, which will also allow a frequency of 520 Hz in a resolution of 1920 × 1080, and in its case, thanks to HDMI 2.1 support, it should also be supported on HDMI (but it is not clear whether also with Nvidia graphics or only on Radeons).
Acer Nitro XV270 F5
This monitor does not have an extended gamut panel (only 99% sRGB), but instead of TN, it has IPS technology. The response will be slightly worse (1 ms / 0.5 ms minimum response for gray-gray transition). The price should also be $600, in the EU including VAT €699.
There is also a model next to it Nitro XV270U F5which has the same physical size, but the resolution is 2560 × 1440 pixels. Again, it’s an IPS panel with sRGB gamut (99%) and 1ms response / 0.5ms minimum gray-to-gray transition response. Again, this monitor has HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4 inputs and is supposed to handle a 500Hz refresh rate on both. The price is supposed to be $800 and in the EU €799 including VAT.
All three monitors will go on sale in the first quarter of 2025.
Source: VideoCardz
Source: www.cnews.cz
