Tuesday, May 8th 2018
Premium G-Sync, HDR Monitors from ASUS, ACER Reportedly Launching in Two Weeks
Well, so much for April being the month NVIDIA expected its partners to up their game and release their G-SYNC, HDR monitors - that opportunity has come and gone, in another delay for products that were supposed to arrive in 2017. However, as with most launches that fail to meet their timelines, the move is usually to simply shift the goalpost - and that's what's been done yet again. It's still unclear which reasons have led to the delays in launch - whether unrealistic NVIDIA specifications, problems in panel manufacturing at AU Optronics, who have their hands full right now.
However... It now seems (again) we are fast approaching the release date for (at least) two solutions based on the NVIDIA specs (3840×2160 resolution, 144 Hz refresh rate, a 1000-nits brightness, a direct LED backlighting system with 384 zones, and feature a quantum dot film to enable HDR10 and coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut). Acer's X27 Predator and ASUS' PG27UQ are the two expected releases, but as you might guess, pricing won't be fair. Here's just hoping that it isn't as much out of court as this preorder page puts it, quoting €2556.50 for ASUS' PG27UQ. It's the extra fifty cents that breaks the illusion, really.
Sources:
PC World's YouTube, via Overclock 3D, Si Computers
However... It now seems (again) we are fast approaching the release date for (at least) two solutions based on the NVIDIA specs (3840×2160 resolution, 144 Hz refresh rate, a 1000-nits brightness, a direct LED backlighting system with 384 zones, and feature a quantum dot film to enable HDR10 and coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut). Acer's X27 Predator and ASUS' PG27UQ are the two expected releases, but as you might guess, pricing won't be fair. Here's just hoping that it isn't as much out of court as this preorder page puts it, quoting €2556.50 for ASUS' PG27UQ. It's the extra fifty cents that breaks the illusion, really.
20 Comments on Premium G-Sync, HDR Monitors from ASUS, ACER Reportedly Launching in Two Weeks
They always charge a ridiculous premium just because they slap an Asus badge on things.
Jeezus!
As far as HDR for PC usage goes HDR can easily be qualified as a gimmick (at least for the moment ) since there are only few games that get HDR right and im not even mentioning all the issues peoples have when they do other tasks. You can watch some of the latest PCPer podcasts they talk about those issues .
As far as I know, HDMI 2.0(b) can not do 3840x2160 @ 144Hz. It would take HDMI 2.1 to do that and I know of no such video cards that support it (yet).
As far as I know, DisplayPort 1.2(a) can not support 3840x2160 @ 144Hz. Perhaps DisplayPort 1.3 or 1.4 can but again I am not sure what if any cards currently support this.
Maybe some proprietary setup that uses dual HDMI or dual DP can do this but those are interim solutions that are far from standard and fall to the wayside in short order.
Edit:
Just looked it up here:
www.nvidia.com/en-sg/geforce/products/10series/compare/
According to this, the 1080 Ti, 1080, 1070 and 1060 all have HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2. Only the 1050Ti and 1050 have HDMI 2.0B and DisplayPort 1.4. That can't be right can it? Or is it that these nVidia cards can somehow be upgraded to support DisplayPort 1.4,.........????
Just give me a 24" 1080p 165hz NON-curved IPS monitor already, id honestly pay the SAME as the current 27" 1440p ones go for, for that.
>but 1080p suckssss
I prefer not to use scaling until such a time that all software handles it properly and so on. at that max refresh rate of course.
and to optimize that monitor, we need exremely powerful (which is expensive) GPU(s).
so much money to burn... but think again. at the moment there's only few games who supported HDR. and not to mention that most AAA games nowadays suffer from various kind of bug, incompatible with some hardware and just focus on microtransaction...