Sunday, August 13th 2017
480 Hz True Refresh Rate Monitor Spotted, Heralding a New Wave of Display Tech
A prototype true 480 Hz monitor has found its way to the hands of Blur Busters, who aptly tested whether or not that feature made their blur busting name irrelevant at some point in the future. The verdict? While 480 Hz refresh rates do offer a visible difference in step distances and blur reduction, things can be improved further. But we're talking about a refresh rate where most high-end monitors typically achieve 144 Hz - so 480 Hz is a totally different beast.
While display tech has seen some interesting evolutions as of late (mainly the introduction of OLED displays and HDR technology (which seems to be facing some delays of its own), refresh rates have somewhat stagnated in recent times. A true 480 Hz refresh rate will surely get some users drooling over it, and justify yet another round of upgrades to your entire system - though of course, the usability of such a high refresh-rate monitor begins to dwindle as resolution increases (and frame rates necessarily decrease.) Let's see where this goes.
Sources:
Blur Busters, via HotHardware
While display tech has seen some interesting evolutions as of late (mainly the introduction of OLED displays and HDR technology (which seems to be facing some delays of its own), refresh rates have somewhat stagnated in recent times. A true 480 Hz refresh rate will surely get some users drooling over it, and justify yet another round of upgrades to your entire system - though of course, the usability of such a high refresh-rate monitor begins to dwindle as resolution increases (and frame rates necessarily decrease.) Let's see where this goes.


51 Comments on 480 Hz True Refresh Rate Monitor Spotted, Heralding a New Wave of Display Tech
When I go to any friend´s house and watch them playing on their crappy console, they are using oled screens and HDR on many games while we have so much horsepower and still on ips and tn panels at SDR lul
yeah I know ME Andromeda supports HDR, dont care about that game anyways.
I feel like in 2017 people on PC still care too much about 1990s and 2000s stuff, shooters at 300fps with outdated engines and game mechanics. Look at the sucess Pubg is having right now. WE need something like Crysis was, push the boundaries ffs!!!!
But yeah, when minecraft and cs are 2 of the most played games... nuff said.
Back on topic: This recent pissing contest with refresh rates is a good thing. It's not like panel manufacturers have bothered doing much to improve anything else when a true 8bit panel is still considered noteworthy in 2017 :|.
The simplest example is, take a laser pen, and start shacking your hand, first slow, and then as fast as you can until the point becomes a continuous arc/line/whatever. By seeing that arc, means that your eye/brain processing already reached it's limits of images/second, so it's just starting to interpolating the images creating a continuous image in your brain. Pretty much how motion blur works ;)
P.S.
Quick question for your brain homework:
Approximately how many times/second did you shake your hand before the laser dot turned into a continuous arc? ;) ;)
Been playing Wither 3 on PC with a controller and on the couch and ended up locking the game to 60hz to save GPU load and noise. And it works to me.
Well, I have plenty of games I plan on using for the monitor (mostly iso RPGs which suck on a TV). I'll adjust things more when I get around to them.
Man if blurred image is all you see walking around all day then this discussion is pointless until you see your optician.