Wednesday, August 26th 2020
ASUS Announces the ROG PG259QN Monitor: 1080p IPS, 360 Hz, 1 ms, G-SYNC
ASUS today announced the ROG PG259QN monitor, a 24,5" monitor featuring a blazing fast 360 Hz refresh rates paired with a 1 ms response time. Of course, driving that refresh rate means that the monitor itself only offers 1080p resolution - albeit it does so using an IPS panel. Color-accuracy isn't reported as of yet, though, so save your money, at least for now, if you're also looking at color-critical applications. But the defining purpose for this monitor is for it to be one of the best solutions for twitch gaming scenarios. According to an NVIDIA-led study, gamers with a 360 Hz monitor improved their K/D ratio by 4% compared to using a "mere" 240 Hz solution, so there's that. The addition of a G-Sync module, according to ASUS, allows the PG259QN to have the best smoothness of any gaming monitor, bar none.
The ROG PG259QN supports ASUS AURA Sync, slim bezels, tilt, pivot, height, and swivel adjustments. I/O is guaranteed by 1x DisplayPort 1.4 cable and 1x HDMI 2.0 port, alongside 1x 3.5 mm headset jack and 1x USB 3.0 pass-through port, as well. No word on pricing at time of writing.
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The ROG PG259QN supports ASUS AURA Sync, slim bezels, tilt, pivot, height, and swivel adjustments. I/O is guaranteed by 1x DisplayPort 1.4 cable and 1x HDMI 2.0 port, alongside 1x 3.5 mm headset jack and 1x USB 3.0 pass-through port, as well. No word on pricing at time of writing.
79 Comments on ASUS Announces the ROG PG259QN Monitor: 1080p IPS, 360 Hz, 1 ms, G-SYNC
I don't want to be prejudiced, but it seems to me, you guys are rooting for the eye scourge that is TN, not picking on you personally for it. It just happens to be not suited to land animals like what a fresnel lens is to a lighthouse. Also, tftcentral and blurbusters have rectifying still images of reverse ghosting effects on TN monitors showing on more occasions than IPS panels, so forgive me for being so broad-minded. Forgive me for replying in sections, but this turned into a quiz.
I can point whole swaths of tftcentral reviews. All you have to do is scroll down until you see the section with lag counters and look for the RTC error color code on the right hand of the table chart. Good IPS monitors have it in deep green which they always have...
I understand games are smoother with lower resolution, i want the manufactures giving us something better than 1080p.
The 1920x1080 has become so mainstream and damn boring.
And btw you just joined TPU to reply to my comment ? .... :kookoo:
I don't see things from where you are standing. It is funny as heck to even try.
Sure high res is good, but it isn't retro.
www.pcgamer.com/heres-what-overwatch-looks-like-running-at-100x100-pixels-for-some-reason/
You can go to blurbusters, too. I'm pretty well covered. I cannot claim I'm not a reptilian, but when my eyes see luminance, it bugs me more than the pixel trails - common side effect of having pit organs in the form of nostrils, I guess...
So can we stop with the whining? If you don't want 1080p don't buy it.
Note how TN is on the bottom end of the best IPS panels. And that's going off a similar green > orange overshoot color in your graph just as well.
TN is generally about 1-3ms lower, with much lower minimum (as low as marketed 1ms) and a slightly lower average. The difference is tiny. But IPS is not faster. In fact, IPS is still reporting its G2G response quite fairly. All (non-gaming) IPS panels are marketed as 4-5ms panels and if you look below, that's pretty accurate. Not a single one will average below 4. The gaming ones deploy overdrive modes to be faster, and only a tiny selection is high refresh native. That last category is what gets the green overshoot bar along with maintaining its 3-6ms G2G. But even so, something's gonna give - the peak G2G is still pretty high and substantially higher than TN, often closing in on 8-10ms.
Technology doesn't suddenly work differently. IPS's limitations haven't changed. Its still basically a 1000:1 static contrast, color accurate, great viewing angle technology. Everything else around it, is trickery, a balancing act and whichever you prefer best is the panel you'll love.
TN is also still a less accurate, slightly faster, slightly worse in static contrast (900:1 typical) and worse viewing angle technology. And will be for as long as the sun comes up in the morning.
The same goes for VA. Its limitations haven't changed: it will smear in darker hues as it always suffers a low 0-55 grayscale G2G response time, while the other metrics are strong: higher static contrast usually starting at 3000:1, vivid colors though not necessarily accurate (due to contrast) & the lowest black point of any non emissive display tech. Many VA panels come out with some visible DeltaE errors that you can calibrate away in most. Viewing angles are not as good as IPS.
This will echo in reviews forever, make no mistake. Any panel doing better, does something unique and has ditto price tag. Be it FALD, strobing tech, or highly optimized cabinet design.
You say you study these things... but I question your judgment.
Here's another one...
that matches with this overshoot table:
Green > orange in both TN and IPS but TN is still a hair faster. The trend is clear and your statement is false. Both TN and IPS can produce low G2G without overshoot issues. The fact that many don't (both in TN/IPS camps) is of course attributable to differences in panel, price, quality, calibration.
You can step off the high horse now - you're not smarter than the rest.
As for the rest of your text... a lot of fluff, but nobody ever said they were rooting for TN if I recall... but let's call a spade a spade. There is no battle to fight here, really.
Its because the type of users like you that the tech is not going further in a large scale. Because you dont buy new tech you regret you just want to step back instead go forward.
"Not appreciate the substance of things"... WTF is this ? What improving visuals and technologies have in common with substance of things ????
I avoid monitors at 1080p because is old tech is mainstream tech. i invest in higher resolution monitors because i want to SEE MORE of games. of videos and visual content in general improving my experience with personal computers.
Hey you like to stick to old tech ? Good for you, no one cares.
And it is true, if you NEED a higher res to appreciate a game, which is what you are really saying, (re-read your text), you DO have an issue appreciating the substance of things. Apparently seeing the same image with a lower pixel count cannot satisfy you. This is strange, to say the least. How did you even survive pre-4K? Did you not enjoy the content then?
I'm not even up for mental gymnastics, just pointing the finger straight across. No jumping through hoops to follow the line of thought.
You could look at the blurbusters trademark image, too. It is all the same, a blurry still image can still be corrected with a shorter strobe while an overshoot cannot.
But strobe also increases input lag and it is not widely available, even in Gsync panels you have to deep dive to find it.
Additionally, a percentage of people experience flickering images with strobe and cannot use it proper. And I know what they mean - it is definitely more tiresome to look at strobing backlights for a long time. Its a choice of evils.
EVERYBODY will APPRECIATE HIGHER RES !!!!
You do not want to improve your experience. And the main reason is in fact that you cant afford better tech, that is your frustation when you see new tech release
But i get it its fine.
However, I like challenges. Especially those I can own so easily. Would you mind, if I invited you over to another thread? @John Naylor
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/been-thinking-of-jumping-on-the-hdr-gsync-120hz-bandwagon-but-hesitant-due-to-potential-ghosting-motion-blur-imperfections.265662/post-4302612
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/gone-to-165-hz-whats-the-difference.271076/post-4334118
But. It is also tiresome to look at, much more so than non-strobing, there is a loss (halving) of luminance, and input lag increases. (Doubles)
I also know that John is a strobe advocate as well. And I do agree, in a general sense, strobe is a big advantage that eliminates bad IPS/VA monitor qualities, to an extent. But it does not speak of the general state of IPS, VA, or TN tech. Its an addon and it is not common.
its called grasping at straws. As is your first reply above... who cares about all of that? You can add mumbo jumbo but I do assume that if you have 120hz native you try to run a 120fps bit of content on it to test the panel's capability, no? Of course things are synced. Now you're adding phase and clock into the mix? Lol.
Next attempt is trying to pull in sales numbers to somehow make a point that IPS is faster... as if that isn't a jump to the conclusion that people buy IPS 'because its faster'... lol. Yeah... that's the only USP that IPS has, obviously :roll::roll::roll:
Just stop.
I'm still saying I'm reserved with my claims and not throwing about baseless assumptions. In fact, you have made more mental pushes of the solid examples.