It’s CES over in Las Vegas proper now (that’s the Consumer Electronics Show to provide it its full and correct identify), the place {hardware} producers from world wide supply up their newest devices and gizmos to provide us a glimpse of all of the cool issues they’ve acquired deliberate for 2020. This 12 months, the new subject appears to be mad gaming monitors, and Asus have simply gone and proven everybody up by asserting the world’s first 360Hz one, these mad fools.
At the second, monitor refresh charges high out at 240Hz, however the appropriately named Asus ROG Swift 360Hz will have the ability to spit out 50% extra frames per second than its 240Hz rivals when it arrives later this 12 months. That’s various frames when you ask me. You would possibly even say it’s too many.
Indeed, RPS Mechanic Alex Wiltshire delved into the topic of simply what number of frames the human eye can really see for PC Gamer again in 2017, and analysis suggests all of it turns into a lot of a muchness when you hit 200Hz, which calls into query simply how profit you’ll really get from these further 120 frames. I’ve but to see the monitor in particular person, so I can’t say for certain simply how clean 360Hz appears to be like in comparison with 240Hz, however as somebody who struggles to see the distinction between 120Hz and 240Hz, I’m undecided 360Hz goes to make issues any higher.
There’s additionally the additional wrinkle of whether or not your graphics card is even going to as much as the duty of hitting 360fps as nicely. After all, many GPUs nonetheless battle to hit 240fps in most of immediately’s games until you whack the settings proper down. It’s much less of an issue for older games comparable to CS:GO and aggressive esports-y issues like Fortnite and League of Legends, however when you fancy hitting 360fps in the rest then you definately’re most likely going to want one hell of a GPU to tug it off. Still, I’ll be placing this 24in, 1920×1080 Nvidia G-Sync monitor via its paces as quickly as evaluation samples can be found, so watch this house for extra bonkers 360Hz impressions.
The ROG Swift 360Hz monitor wasn’t the one gaming display screen Asus introduced at this 12 months’s CES, both. They additionally lifted the lid on the ROG Swift PG32UQX, their newest 32in, 4K, Nvidia G-Sync Ultimate HDR show. This is not any mere rehash of their earlier ROG Swift PG27UQ monitor, both. Whereas that had a powerful 384 backlight zones for its handsome HDR, the PG32UQX has a whopping 1152 of them. Add in a peak brightness of a positively eye-searing 1400cd/m2 (the PG27YQ topped out at 1000cd/m2) and a 144Hz refresh fee and that is one severe HDR show.
Goodness is aware of how a lot it’s going to value. After all, the PG27UQ nonetheless units you again round £1700 / $1400 at time of writing, so I wouldn’t be stunned if the PG32UQX got here in nearer to £3000 / $3000, if not considerably extra, when it launches later this 12 months. I’ll let as quickly as I do know extra.
For extra information from this 12 months’s CES, try our CES 2020 tag.
