ASUS Rolls Out TUF Gaming VG279QM Monitor with 280Hz Refresh-rate and ELMB-sync

[Vayra86]

I've been a VA convert for a while, when it comes to home/gaming monitors.
Who sits off-angle when gaming? I sure as hell don't! Meanwhile, the contrast levels and uniformity are unmatched by VA and TN at any price point.

As for response times, black to dark transitions are the slowest with VA, but although they show up as big red numbers in the response time tests, they're probably the least important transitions for gaming since your visual cortex will focus on movement first, then high-contrast, with darker parts of the image being less sensitive. There are easy tests/simulations you can do to prove to anyone that their brain processes dark, low-contrast images slower. It's a thing that has been successfully and commercially used for broacasting 3D shows via 2D televisions for over two decades (look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulfrich_effect)

Here's a typical gaming VA:

• Pure-black to bright transitions on VA are absolutely fine (0-50%)
• Dark transitions that don't start at pure black are also absolutely fine (From personal testing, 8-32 is actually fast enough at that I stop being able to see any ghosting/smearing - you can test this yourself by setting custom colours in both drivers and/or at TestUFO.com

So whilst VA does look really bad for 0-50 as tested, it's quite a synthetic test that doesn't have a huge amount of real-content relevance, and even when it *is* relevant, human vision is less sensitive to it than it would be to a slow transition in the middle of the range like you sometimes get with slower IPS transitions. Also, if that table above were hypothetically expanded so that it covered all 65k combinations rather than start/end intervals, you'd likely see that the entire table was a vast field of green/yellow values and the only red would be an almost insignificant strip at the top covering the first few rows of starting point 0-5 or so.

I agree. I've grown used to the smearing. Its a form of motion blur that only exists in the darkest shades, it also gives VA a typical quality to it, not good or bad per say, just a typical sort of image. Not too bothered with it. In some transitions though it is really noticeable. Add some fluctuation in FPS and wew... I've also noticed that it reduces when the panel is warmed up proper. 30 minutes in game and its really hard to pick out.

 

[Chrispy_]

Huh, I'd never even thought to consider the effects of temperature.

Makes sense though, I'll have to run a cold Vs warm test at the weekend.

 

[TheGuruStud]

Mmmmm, over half of the frames will never be rendered. Juicy, marketing, bullshit. Hell, I guess that means all of them will be partially rendered lol.