I actually wasn’t kidding after I stated the recent matter of this 12 months’s CES was mad gaming monitors, as Acer have simply their large Predator CG552Ok display. Measuring 55in throughout its diagonal, this 4K, 120Hz OLED display may very well be simply the factor to exchange your ageing TV with if you happen to’re after some beautiful massive display gaming down in your front room.
Of course, 55in gaming screens aren’t precisely a brand new idea. Indeed, it was at CES 2018 that Nvidia initially introduced their household of BFGD shows (or Big Format Gaming Displays to you and me), and the primary one to make it out the door was HP’s Omen X Emperium, which lastly arrived in February 2019.
Asus and Acer are additionally meant to be making Nvidia BFGDs, however up to now we’ve seen neither disguise nor hair of them. Asus’ PG65 does, not less than, have a correct product web page on their web site, however Acer’s appears to be perpetually caught in growth hell. It wasn’t mentioned at their global press conference last summer, and it hasn’t been introduced up once more at this 12 months’s CES but, both.
The Predator CG552Ok could be the following neatest thing, although. It doesn’t have any HDR help sadly, however this jumbo OLED display will play properly with all forms of graphics playing cards because of its Adaptive Sync help. This implies that each Nvidia and AMD GPU house owners will have the ability to benefit from its 120Hz refresh fee, guaranteeing easy, stutter and tear-free gaming no matter what sort of graphics card is sitting inside your PC.
The CG552Ok additionally has a built-in proximity sensor that can get up the show whenever you come inside vary of it and put it again into power-saving mode whenever you depart, in addition to a light-weight sensor that can mechanically regulate the display’s brightness ranges so that you don’t pressure your eyes. The solely concern I’ve in regards to the CG552Ok is the very fact its brightness peaks at simply 400cd/m2, which actually isn’t very excessive for a $3000-odd gaming display. Indeed, most OLED TVs at half that value can hit 1000cd/m2 lately, and have HDR help besides.
As a consequence, the CG552Ok has a moderately giant uphill battle forward of it if it’s actually going to make a correct play in your front room, however I’ll reserve judgement till I get my fingers on a evaluation pattern later within the 12 months.
For those that’d moderately preserve their gaming PC tied to their desk, although, there’s lots to love about Acer’s different CES 2020 monitor bulletins. First up is the Predator X32 (pictured above). This 32in Nvidia G-Sync Ultimate show could be very a lot Acer’s equal to Asus’ newly-announced ROG Swift PG32UQX – a 4K IPS panel backed by an enormous 1152 backlight zones for its HDR gubbins, a 144Hz refresh fee and a peak brightness of 1400cd/m2, making this one whopper of a gaming monitor.
It’s additionally going to make a whopper-sized dent in your checking account, too. Whereas Asus didn’t make any point out of value of their PG32UQX announcement, Acer have stated the Predator X32 goes to start out at $3600 when it launches someday between April and June later this 12 months, making my earlier prediction of round £3500 / $3500 nearly proper.
If something, I’d think about the Asus will find yourself a contact dearer than the Acer, as a result of their everlasting obsession with rainbow-coloured LEDs. It occurred with Asus’ ROG Swift PG27UQ, which ended up being dearer than Acer’s Predator X27 final 12 months regardless of utilizing precisely the identical panel, and I wouldn’t be shocked if the identical factor occurred once more right here. As a consequence, anticipate to see an identical sort of monitor battle between these two screens as there was for the PG27UQ and X27.
Finally, there’s the Predator X38, Acer’s new curved ultrawide beasty. With a 3840×1600 decision and a curvature radius of 2300R, this Nvidia G-Sync show has a 175Hz refresh fee and VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification. Acer haven’t confirmed what sort of panel it has but, however with a claimed 98% protection of the HDR-grade DCI-P3 color gamut, it sounds fairly darn beautiful.
Naturally, the price of the factor is considerably much less interesting, as Acer have at the moment bought it beginning at $2400 when it launches later this April. Will it’s well worth the expense? Hopefully I’ll have the ability to discover out in a few months time.
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