Thursday, August 24th 2017
AOC to Launch AGON³ Gaming Monitors With 0.5 ms Response Time in 2018
AOC has come forward to announce that they'll be shipping gaming monitors under their AGON³ gaming brand that boast of 0.5 ms (yup, you read that right) response time come 2018. The new monitors, based on an AUO TN panel, will come in curved 27", offer 2560 x 1440 resolution at a 144 Hz refresh rate, and will be available with either G-Sync or FreeSync 2 support. Users of AMD-enabled FreeSync 2 will be left happier than their NVIDIA counterparts: AOC's FreeSync 2 monitor will not only support HDR and a wider color gamut, but will also retail for €100 less (€599) than its non HDR-enabled NVIDIA counterpart (€699). Granted, AMD's HDR requirements are much lower than NVIDIA's 1000cd/m² minimum luminance for HDR - which means this AU Optronics panel, with its 400cd/m² peak luminance, makes the cut for AMD's HDR standards. Remember - not all HDR is equal.
Asked about AOC's new panels, AOC's Afonso Clemente said that "We were talking with AUO and they have a new panel (...) Up until now curved monitors were either IPS or VA, which is ok, but the response time was not so great. There's always some ghosting, some blurring. But now there are curved panels from AU Optronics that allow 0.5 ms response time."
When questioned about the usage of a TN panel, Afonso Clemente went on to say that "(...) the picture quality is probably better than IPS. It's not quantum dot, you can't put that on TN, but the quality was really reminiscent of quantum dot. The market has never seen a TN panel with this color quality. Viewing angles are TN viewing angles, but you don't care about that." For gamers, it's certainly true that it doesn't really matter whether a monitor has great viewing angles or not - most demonstrations of their gaming prowess will be made through streaming, after all. We'll have to wait and see, but a TN panel that can boast of such response times and almost quantum dot levels of color reproduction will definitely be an interesting one to check out.
Source:
PCGamesN
Asked about AOC's new panels, AOC's Afonso Clemente said that "We were talking with AUO and they have a new panel (...) Up until now curved monitors were either IPS or VA, which is ok, but the response time was not so great. There's always some ghosting, some blurring. But now there are curved panels from AU Optronics that allow 0.5 ms response time."
15 Comments on AOC to Launch AGON³ Gaming Monitors With 0.5 ms Response Time in 2018
A TN panel on peak brightness of 400 for HDR standard is very poor. On the flip side, 1000 is very high (in some ocassions would be too bright if too close to monitor.)
If the AMD is HDR simply because their standard is lower - that will be reflected in a critical review of the panel.
144Hz @ .5ms looks better than 200Hz @1ms.
I can barely tell the difference between my 144hz and 165hz oc, and i can definitely see it's a bit blurrier.
It's just an executive admitting there's a flaw in their product that amusing me. Refreshing honesty is great.
The overall push of TN is not the low refresh it can have. Its all about pushing the cheapest panel tech to most gullible of consumers. And its working well. They can even add Gsync on top on a high refresh panel meant to display over 100 FPS, and still, people pay for it.
You can't fix stupid I guess.
Boom! now i'm convinced by this. Where do i throw my money at?
Its another one of those human faults we have.
Edit. Ahh they said it was typo and it's the same TN panel on both.
the difference is appalling !!
It is typical ms (5 ms GTG vs 1 ms GTG)Didn't even use a new image.
What? How does this make sense? HDR has industry standard brightness requirements... how can AMD say their requirements are much lower?? 400cd/m² is pathetic, it simply won't be capable of displaying HDR properly!
And what is meant by "not all HDR is equal"... well no, the content made for it certainly isn't, but if you have two displays, once which has 60% less luminance than the other, the difference between the two is going to be INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS!
Are consumers getting dumber? Clearly AMD must think so.