Wednesday, April 19th 2023
AUO Shows Off 4K 240 Hz A.R.T Gaming Monitor Display Panel
AUO has been busy developing what the company calls Advanced Reflectionless Technology or A.R.T. which the company was showing off at the Touch Taiwan trade show. The panel in question was a 32-inch, 4K AHVA panel, which is AUO's own variant of IPS. Although the panel was set up so there were fewer reflections in the area where it was being displayed, the panel did seem to be less reflective compared to other displays sitting next to it. However, it's always hard to judge these things on a show floor, so we'll have to wait for some reviews before passing final judgement on A.R.T. but it looks like a promising technology when it comes to reducing unwanted reflections.
The panel is also one of the first 4K panels capable of delivering a 240 Hz refresh rate, although it's going to be hard finding a graphics card capable of driving all games at that kind of refresh rate at 4K resolution. Sadly the brightness is only 400 cd/m², although AUO claims 1 ms grey to grey response time with overdrive enabled and a 95 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 colour gamut, which is better than most 4K gaming panels on the market today. Sadly, AHVA panels suffer from IPS glow, just as normal IPS panels, which can clearly be seen in the second image below.
The panel is also one of the first 4K panels capable of delivering a 240 Hz refresh rate, although it's going to be hard finding a graphics card capable of driving all games at that kind of refresh rate at 4K resolution. Sadly the brightness is only 400 cd/m², although AUO claims 1 ms grey to grey response time with overdrive enabled and a 95 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 colour gamut, which is better than most 4K gaming panels on the market today. Sadly, AHVA panels suffer from IPS glow, just as normal IPS panels, which can clearly be seen in the second image below.
11 Comments on AUO Shows Off 4K 240 Hz A.R.T Gaming Monitor Display Panel
That said, there are clearly the right kind of driver ICs inside these ones at the show, or they wouldn't be working, so it seems like DP 2.0 monitors can't be that far away, finally.
Btw said trailer normally looks way darker than this. This display looks overly bright in comparison.
Don't know if it's not due to the photo itself ofc
Probably just an AOC or MSI display rebadged for the show floor, but it's a shame AUO doesn't make retail monitors. Samsung has proved that tight vertical integration can make the connection between engineers and firmware coders surpass the sum of its parts with the Odyssey line of VA monitors outperforming all other VA monitors, including those with the same or similar Samsung-sourced panels.
It's only a hunch, but I would imagine the best people to tune and optimise the firmware for pixel overdrive and smear-reduction are probably the people who make the panel, since they should know it best.
Considering this doesn't exist as a retail product, I very much doubt that. The 540 Hz panel was in an Asus monitor, as per the news piece and it's very obvious that is the case there.
Keep in mind that AUO doesn't make any kind of retail products, so what you see here will never be available in retail in this exact form.