Wednesday, May 25th 2022
ASUS Reveals 500 Hz ROG Swift Esports Monitor With E-TN Panel and G-Sync
Back in 2012, ASUS released the world's first ever 144 Hz monitor, and we've been chasing high refresh rates ever since. From the first 240 Hz NVIDIA G-SYNC display we released in 2017 to the first 360 Hz display in 2020, ROG is committed to pushing competitive gaming to new heights at every opportunity. Now, we're ecstatic to announce that we've done it again: introducing the ROG Swift 500 Hz, a groundbreaking new gaming monitor that refreshes 500 times per second, for the most fluid, fast-paced motion you'll find in modern Esports.
In competitive, intense firefights, every single millisecond counts. The ROG Swift 500 Hz draws frames more than eight times faster than typical 60 Hz displays in a single second, which means you have that much more time to get a leg up on your opponent in esports titles like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valorant, Overwatch, and Rainbow Six Siege. With super low response times and unprecedented improvements in input lag, the ROG Swift 500 Hz is the new benchmark in Esports, offering the same competitive advantage that made its 360 Hz predecessor the official display at last year's DOTA 2 The International championship. The ROG Swift 500 Hz features a 24.1-inch Full HD (1920x1080) panel, allowing your GPU to push as many frames as possible. ROG was able to push refresh rates to the limit by using new Esports TN (E-TN) technology, which offers 60% better response times than standard TN panels, allowing us to reach a new milestone in speed and clarity.The other half of the secret sauce comes from NVIDIA: with NVIDIA's Reflex Analyzer and G-SYNC built-in, gamers can tune their settings for the lowest possible input lag, without stuttering or tearing. You'll see every moment as it happens, without waiting for the screen to refresh—allowing you to make your move before your enemy even sees you coming. Plus, with overdrive values perfectly tuned for every portion of the variable refresh rate range, motion blur is kept at a minimum no matter what framerate you're getting.
Finally, we've also included an enhanced Vibrance mode, specifically tuned for esports, built into the monitor's firmware. This mode allows more light to travel through the LCD crystals, giving colors new levels of vibrancy and allowing you to pick out details and highlights that might give away an enemy's position.
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In competitive, intense firefights, every single millisecond counts. The ROG Swift 500 Hz draws frames more than eight times faster than typical 60 Hz displays in a single second, which means you have that much more time to get a leg up on your opponent in esports titles like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valorant, Overwatch, and Rainbow Six Siege. With super low response times and unprecedented improvements in input lag, the ROG Swift 500 Hz is the new benchmark in Esports, offering the same competitive advantage that made its 360 Hz predecessor the official display at last year's DOTA 2 The International championship. The ROG Swift 500 Hz features a 24.1-inch Full HD (1920x1080) panel, allowing your GPU to push as many frames as possible. ROG was able to push refresh rates to the limit by using new Esports TN (E-TN) technology, which offers 60% better response times than standard TN panels, allowing us to reach a new milestone in speed and clarity.The other half of the secret sauce comes from NVIDIA: with NVIDIA's Reflex Analyzer and G-SYNC built-in, gamers can tune their settings for the lowest possible input lag, without stuttering or tearing. You'll see every moment as it happens, without waiting for the screen to refresh—allowing you to make your move before your enemy even sees you coming. Plus, with overdrive values perfectly tuned for every portion of the variable refresh rate range, motion blur is kept at a minimum no matter what framerate you're getting.
Finally, we've also included an enhanced Vibrance mode, specifically tuned for esports, built into the monitor's firmware. This mode allows more light to travel through the LCD crystals, giving colors new levels of vibrancy and allowing you to pick out details and highlights that might give away an enemy's position.
82 Comments on ASUS Reveals 500 Hz ROG Swift Esports Monitor With E-TN Panel and G-Sync
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Even fans and owners of fast screens are commenting how stupid this is.
They had to slow down the footage 36x as well.
I suppose in 3 years we see the same thing but slowed down more showing a obsolete 500hz been jerky and modern 2000hz been smooth. :)
So the focus shifting from refresh rate and response time to quality looks like it wont be happening any time soon, another refresh rate race on now, and of course 500hz like 144hz is a non standard refresh rate not been a multiple of 24 or 30.
An example of the problem this refresh rate craze can cause is here in this reddit thread. Link is in code box to prevent massive embed.
Long thread so will summarise.
As we know manufacturers dont seem to have a problem now days of revisions that change features and fundamental metrics whilst keeping the same product model number.
Its been discovered the first gen LG27850 a 1440p 144hz panel, which also got heavily reviewed, doesnt actually have full DP 1.4 spec, it has the same bandwidth as DP 1.2 (alongside a bunch of feature changes, details in reddit link). To get around the bandwidth limitation, if the monitor is set to 144hz, it doesnt comply with VESA standards, LG took a shortcut by reducing the VBLANK and the problem eventually got noticed by this user. Out of curiosity I wanted to know if they at least complied on lower refresh rates, and struggled to find a way to get the info on nvidia drivers, but luckily on the create custom resolution screen, if you select automatic timings, it reports the EDID data, and I can confirm at 120hz and below the screen is actually compliant, so only an issue at 144hz, but it does show the corners been cut these companies are making to satisfy esport/FPS gamers.
They do like any oled, they are organic, when part of the screen is pushed harder it will eventually die faster, but given that all pixels are blue they might age more evenly unlike wrgb.
OLEDs now are pretty good and with normal use burn in shouldn't be an issue unless you run a news channel 24/7.