Thursday, December 10th 2020
AOC Announces the AGON AG493UCX Monitor: 49" VA, 5120 x 1440, 120 Hz, 1ms, 32:9, FreeSync and DisplayHDR 400
AOC has announced a new addition to their AGON line of gaming monitors in the form of the AGON AG493UCX. This is a beastly monitor with a 49" diagonal and 5K resolution with a Super Ultra-Wide aspect ratio of 32:9 (with a resolution of 5120 x 1440 pixels). The panel type is VA, which promises increased contrast ratios against those typically found in IPS panels (3000:1, in this case). AOC is promising 120 Hz refresh rates with a 1 ms (MPRT) response times with MBR backlight. There is also support for VRR technologies such as FreeSync and G-Sync (compatible).
Display brightness is quoted at 550 cd/m², which is just shy of a DisplayHDR 600 certification, but comfortably achieves the VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification. The monitor isn't a slouch in terms of color display either, being better than your average VA panel: the display is factory-calibrated and ships with a guaranteed dE <2, and coverage for 16.7 millions colors across a 93% DCI-P3 gamut coverage (and 121% sRGB coverage). I/O is handled by 2x DisplayPort 1.4, 2x HDMI 2.0, 1x USB type-C, 3x USB ports and 1x an audio output. 2x 5 W speakers are built in to the screen and the stand offers tilt, height and swivel adjustments. No word on pricing as of yet.
Update December 10th 2020: AOC has just made the AGON AG493UCX available for purchase. Initial availability is pegged for Europe with a price tag set at £899 / €899.
Source:
TFT Central
Display brightness is quoted at 550 cd/m², which is just shy of a DisplayHDR 600 certification, but comfortably achieves the VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification. The monitor isn't a slouch in terms of color display either, being better than your average VA panel: the display is factory-calibrated and ships with a guaranteed dE <2, and coverage for 16.7 millions colors across a 93% DCI-P3 gamut coverage (and 121% sRGB coverage). I/O is handled by 2x DisplayPort 1.4, 2x HDMI 2.0, 1x USB type-C, 3x USB ports and 1x an audio output. 2x 5 W speakers are built in to the screen and the stand offers tilt, height and swivel adjustments. No word on pricing as of yet.
Update December 10th 2020: AOC has just made the AGON AG493UCX available for purchase. Initial availability is pegged for Europe with a price tag set at £899 / €899.
39 Comments on AOC Announces the AGON AG493UCX Monitor: 49" VA, 5120 x 1440, 120 Hz, 1ms, 32:9, FreeSync and DisplayHDR 400
...Which is the last type of game you'd want to run on a smeary VA panel.
It's DQHD. Not 4K. DQHD. Not 4k. Say it with me. DQHD. Not 4K.
By your defination cinema 4K actually daul 1080p AKA DFHD (2160/2=1080).
I think everyone can agree though that 4K = 3840 x 2160; Cinema 4k 4096 x 2160. 1440p is not 4K. It's QHD. double wide =Dual Quad HD. 2 times 4 times 720.
The monitor in here has 5120 Horizontal pixel, so technically it is a 5K monitor.
Just name the god damn resolution width x height. We already have 2K for... what exactly, precisely. 4K is now anything higher than 1440p.. Dafuq is going on. Are we in marketing, or in reality here? Remember HD ready...No its technically 5120x1440
in marketing it could be 5K. But why even stop there, right? :D
A similar thing is happening with screen diagonals. Since ultrawide people buying 32 inch think they'll get their TV equivalent on a desk. Then they unpack the box and realize they've bought something the size of two soundbars.
EDIT: sand. In your vagina. Yep. Mine too :P
in your mind a 4k monitor is only 2k if you think it is vertical?
I was only making a joke and now I am having to pave facts :fear:
:slap:
it seems industry standard in my exposure is using the vertical lines to categorize properly. funny how every 4K monitor on rtings.com is 3840 x 2160. They sure don't list something like 5120 x 1440 as 5k or 4k....because it is just two 2K monitors (and 2K is 2560 x 1440) side by side in a single unit. do the math for pete sake! 2560 * 2 = 5120
I'll see myself out now :rolleyes:
PS: The author's 4K spec was probably a typo and meant to be 5k. Hopefully.
None of it makes sense because marketing departments got ahold of all this stuff. Why this thread is so fun.
High Definition (HD) = 1280 x 720 at 16:9. 921,600 pixels.
Quad High Definition (QHD) = 2560x1440 at 16:9. 3,686,400 pixels.
3,686,400/921,600 = 4. So there's your "Quad".
Dual Quad High Definition = 5120x1440 and is now 32:9 aspect ratio. 7,372,800 pixels.
So 2 * (4 * HD) =
2 * (4 * 921,600) =
2 * 3,686,400 =
7,372,800
So Mats is spot on. IT'S SEVEN FREAKING KAY! OMGZ. :D
I returned both in disbelief, the second one, a CQ32G1 I though would be better based on an RTINGS review but it turns out they based their measurements on the 27" variant and had the cheek to simply copy and paste the 27" article for the 32" version with a completely different panel and completely different firmware behaviour.
Mid-year RTINGS updated their review for the 32" model and holy cow the performance is utterly inexcusable. How the hell can AOC call something a gaming monitor when it is a smeary blurry mess incapable of even attaining the 33ms response times for 30fps console-quality framerates? That 91.4ms translates to a maximum of 11Hz before smearing kicks in.
In short, I can't trust AOC to get it right. I know tuning a VA panel is a delicate balance but they managed to somehow make the transitions that VA is typically very good at awful, without fixing the 0-20% that it's always bad at, having some pretty bad overshoot halos in the process, all whilst having some of the jankiest firmware I've used in a while that forgets some settings between power cycles. Really important settings like UMLB or Freesync, too - Having to turn one of those on every damn boot was infuriating - and yet more evidence of a complete lack of actual testing and thought from AOC.
Sorry for the rant, but VA panels have such an enormous amount of variance depending on the manufacturer tuning the firmware and I feel that AOC's stunningly-poor firmware for two out of two gaming panels is something worth mentioning in this context.