Acer have introduced they’re delaying the release of their Predator X27 4K G-Sync HDR monitor. Sad occasions… however it’s going to be okay individuals, there’ll nonetheless be each 4K and ultrawide G-Sync HDR screens coming from Asus later this yr.
But what’s the best gaming monitor proper now? It simply so occurs that we’ve put collectively this ‘ere information on that very topic…
Acer didn’t do any form of official launch detailing the launch, so we’ve solely came upon in regards to the delay by way of a tweet from Acer America explaining that the anticipated launch of the HDR gaming show has been put again to launch early subsequent yr. Thankfully Acer’s long-time rival, Asus, have confirmed to us they’re nonetheless on monitor for this yr.
The Predator X27 is the primary HDR gaming monitor to return out of the Acer secure, and is sporting some moderately sexeh specs. As the identify would possibly recommend, it’s a 27-inch panel, however it additionally comes with a 4K native decision (3840 x 2160), a refresh charge of 144Hz, G-Sync compatibility and that all-important HDR help. Okay, so perhaps as of proper now the HDR help isn’t essentially all-important, however as extra HDR10-compatible video games are launched this might turn into the definitive technique to play the most recent PC titles.
We’ve spoken to each Asus and Nvidia this morning and so they’ve assured us that there’ll nonetheless be G-Sync HDR goodness coming this yr as Asus are nonetheless on monitor to launch their very own, almost-identically specced show this yr.
The Asus ROG PG27UQ has the identical important specs because the Predator X27, and likewise comes with the Quantum Dot nano-filter to maximise the color gamut of the panel, in addition to the person LED backlighting system with 384 discrete lighting zones. That’s what permits the show to ship that retina-searing 1,000 nits of peak luminance.
The motive the Acer and Asus screens are so comparable is that they’re each utilizing the identical AU Optronics panel, which makes it all of the more unusual that Acer are selecting to delay what would turn into their flagship high-end gaming monitor. They had been each introduced on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January and, with Acer America saying the brand new Q1 2018 launch for the Predator X27, that places it into focus for subsequent yr’s CES.
We don’t know what which means for Acer’s ultrawide G-Sync HDR screen, which we had a play with at Computex in June, however it’s most likely protected to imagine that Acer may have put the launch of the Acer Predator X35 again to match.
This might nicely go away Asus as the one participant within the high-end HDR sport, nevertheless, with few HDR-compatible titles round proper now, or on the horizon, and no GPU able to delivering 4K video games at 144fps, that won’t play out too badly for Acer.
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