Acer's 57-inch Predator Z57 Lands in Retail

[TheLostSwede]

For those unhappy with the resolution of most ultrawide displays on the market, Acer's new addition to its Predator line should please most of you, as it has a DUHD resolution which is better known as 7680 x 2160 pixels, aka dual 4K. The Predator Z57 also sports a 2304 zone MiniLED backlight which equals 1152 zones on a standard 4K display. Thanks to the MiniLED backlight, the Predator Z57 also gets a VESA DisplayHDR 1000 certification. However, the 120 Hz VA display panel might not be to everyone's liking, alongside the 1000R curvature.

Other features include support for AMD FreeSync Premium, 98 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 colour space, an HDMI 2.1 port, a USB Type-C port with 90 W USB-PD support, integrated KVM support, but seemingly no support for DP 2.1. The stand offers height, tilt and swivel adjustments and the display also sports a pair of built in 10 W speakers. Acer hasn't released the full specs of the display, but it retails for US$1,999.99 and can be ordered from Acer in the US now with Europe seemingly following shortly.



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[theouto]

Holy curvature batman

 

[FoulOnWhite]

Gonna need a heck of a GPU to run games native with that. Imo the curve is dreadful too

 

[Vayra86]

Next version they'll probably clamp the sides of that screen to your ears.

Wtf how is this comfy

 

[Outback Bronze]

Yeah, this is a serious curve. Anybody got any experience with this type of curvature?

Any better than a 1500R type curve?

Would just like to know for future reference as I've been really happy going 1500R from flat.

Cheers.

 

[Chrispy_]

The thing I hate about this is the variable curvature.

It's not a radius, it's flat at the edges, then transitions into a steep curve in the middle. That's going to screw with perspective, I reckon.



WTH, Acer?! That's even crazier than the $2000 price tag for a non-OLED.

 

[Space Lynx]

I would need to experience this with a RTX 5090 to see if it's viable or not for immersion, my guess is not. even a 5090 will crumble at this resolution for new AAA games. if you like high refresh smoothness anyway.

 

[Vayra86]

The thing I hate about this is the variable curvature.

It's not a radius, it's flat at the edges, then transitions into a steep curve in the middle. That's going to screw with perspective, I reckon.

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WTH, Acer?! That's even crazier than the $2000 price tag for a non-OLED.

Yeah I noticed this too on my G34, just slightly less pronounced. Not sure I want to have a curve in my next panel.

I would need to experience this with a RTX 5090 to see if it's viable or not for immersion, my guess is not. even a 5090 will crumble at this resolution for new AAA games. if you like high refresh smoothness anyway.

Not really, you could easily play half res (or heavy upscale) on this and still not be counting pixels. The height isn't that staggering, 57 inch seems more than it really is, the diagonal is only expanded in width, not height. Same thing happens with 34 inch UW, it has the exact same height as a regular 27 inch 1440p.

 

[BSim500]

I would need to experience this with a RTX 5090 to see if it's viable or not for immersion, my guess is not. even a 5090 will crumble at this resolution for new AAA games. if you like high refresh smoothness anyway.

To be honest, having tried a huge 32:9 Super-Ultrawide, there's this constant nagging feeling of "a screen of this size is missing a lot of vertical" rather than "It's like 21:9 but more!" that really didn't feel that "immersive" at all. To "take in" the width you need to sit further back. If you don't then stuff at the edges of the screen just "disappears" out of your peripheral vision (but in a way that doesn't actually feel that immersive) and you need to start turning your head like an owl which is horribly bad for ergonomics. A literal pain in the neck for some applications that put a sidebar / games with a mini-map at the screen edge. But if you do sit further back, it then feels proportionally too short vertically.

Issues with games also go far beyond performance. If you like older games / watch a lot of 16:9 video, almost everything is going to be pillarboxed to an extreme. And for newer games, they'll both run like crap and suffer much more from the horribly "circles in the centre of the screen become streeetched elongated ovals with a pronounced zooming in/out effect at the edges" effect (barrel / pincushion distortion?) that gets amplified to the point of absurdity at 32:9 (example). You can try and turn the FOV (if the game allows it) down to reduce the effect but then stuff in the middle can then feel "too close" just like playing too low a FOV at 16:9. For many games, there is no "just right" FOV setting at 32:9 which doesn't feel weird / stretch the edges.

 

[trsttte]

Yeah I noticed this too on my G34, just slightly less pronounced. Not sure I want to have a curve in my next panel.

The effect is a lot less pronounced with higher radious and displays not as wide. This 32:9 is ridiculous but surely you can't see the flat edges nearly as much in your 34'' 21:9 with 1500R

 

[Vayra86]

The effect is a lot less pronounced with higher radious and displays not as wide. This 32:9 is ridiculous but surely you can't see the flat edges nearly as much in your 34'' 21:9 with 1500R

Agreed but its there anyway. I did notice this too, and its weird, because especially at the edges, you want the curve.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Next version they'll probably clamp the sides of that screen to your ears.

Wtf how is this comfy

This is best to play race sims or space sims. I recomand testing one of those before posting judgement based on pictures only.

 

[Tomorrow]

Dual-4K and 2k price but no DP 2.1 still?

 

[Space Lynx]

Is it possible to ever like ultrawide but with 16:10 form factor so you get both the vertical and horizontal? I don't know, my brain isn't working today

 

[bonehead123]

Wow, both stunning AND ridiculous at the same time, whodathunkit possible, hehehe ?

I have a 32" curved Sammy monitor atm that has a moderate curvature, and it works well for me, but I know I would NOT like the "flat on the ends but uber-curved in the middle" thing..just looks too goofy to me....

 

[RamiHaidafy]

Still waiting for 5K2K 21:9 gaming ultrawides.

I would get that Dell monitor announced at CES if it didn't cost $2,400, just because it's a "professional" monitor.

 

[Deleted member 239770]

Good luck playing FPS games on that and maintaining an accurate intuitive muscle memory.

 

[Chrispy_]

Is it possible to ever like ultrawide but with 16:10 form factor so you get both the vertical and horizontal? I don't know, my brain isn't working today

16:10 isn't wide, let alone ultrawide!

If you just want a 16:10 display that's 57 inches wide, get a 65" 4K TV and run it at 3456*2160 with black bars down the side. They make curved TVs and if you're using it close to your face like a monitor you probably want all the curve you can get!

 

[danc]

companies stop be dumb! give us something more useful.
38/40-inch 21:9 true 4K mini-led, is it so hard?
Why give us this 57-inch, probably from left over panels.

 

[TheLostSwede]

companies stop be dumb! give us something more useful.
38/40-inch 21:9 true 4K mini-led, is it so hard?
Why give us this 57-inch, probably from left over panels.

Sorry, but why would this be from "left over panels" when it's a premium product? That makes zero sense.
That you don't like, fine, but you also don't have to buy it.
What you want is unlikely to happen as long as 40-inch is considered TV size.

 

[danc]

Sorry, but why would this be from "left over panels" when it's a premium product? That makes zero sense.
That you don't like, fine, but you also don't have to buy it.
What you want is unlikely to happen as long as 40-inch is considered TV size.

Idk if i were to guess, its probably excess panels from samsung from their TV lines, they just convert into such unusual monstrosity. I do not see any business sense to make such exclusive panels that are sold to tiny tiny market

 

[TheLostSwede]

Idk if i were to guess, its probably excess panels from samsung from their TV lines, they just convert into such unusual monstrosity. I do not see any business sense to make such exclusive panels that are sold to tiny tiny market

You're aware that these are also Samsung's flagship gaming panels, so again, why would they be "excess"?
That's not how it works.
If you mean that this is how the current sheets of glass are cut and this is one of the sizes that they can make, then sure, but they could also have made two 4K panels instead, so...

 

[MentalAcetylide]

I don't know as I've never used a curved widescreen for any length of time, but I would have to imagine that its only good for flight sims & games that benefit you from having such a large horizontal range. Unless its doing something different on these with how it displays content(think of how content is adapted for VR in order to achieve depth with a wider horizontal range, etc.) compared to what a flat panel does, adding such a curve is just going to warp everything on the screen. Maybe not enough to make it irritating to work with, but I'm sure it will be noticeable; especially to those who are more accustomed to flat panels.

 

[Octavean]

Great horizontal, needs a bit more vertical,…..

That VA though,…..

 

[RamiHaidafy]

What you want is unlikely to happen as long as 40-inch is considered TV size.

There are already multiple 21:9 monitors that are 38-40 inches in size. LG even have a 45" model. So it's not unlikely to happen, it's already happened.

The only other requirement is the resolution, and we already saw from the leaked panel roadmaps that 21:9 ultrawides at 5K2K resolutions will be coming in volume in the late 2024-2025 time frame. Whether they will be mini-LED or OLED is yet to be known.

Dell have a display available now that checks most of the boxes in the UltraSharp U4025QW: 40-inches, 5K2K resolution, 120Hz, 5ms response. It's almost perfect, except for the $2,400 MSRP. (Edit: I've seen it selling for $1,799 which is still high, but definitely a better price).