AUO Shows Off 4K 240 Hz A.R.T Gaming Monitor Display Panel

[TheLostSwede]

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.



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[Chomiq]

Thanks @TheLostSwede for on site reporting.

 

[konga]

Is this another type of matte finish, or is this an anti-reflective smooth/glossy panel?

 

[TheLostSwede]

Thanks @TheLostSwede for on site reporting.

Got plenty more coming.

Is this another type of matte finish, or is this an anti-reflective smooth/glossy panel?

It's not the typical mattte finish, but not glossy like most OLED displays either. It's fairly neutral, if that makes sense.

 

[Chomiq]

It's not the typical mattte finish, but not glossy like most OLED displays either. It's fairly neutral, if that makes sense.

Very light AG then.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Very light AG then.

It's not glare free as you can see in this picture, but the glare is controlled. Although, I'm not sure if the glare on the right is part of the demo video or not...

 

[Ravenmaster]

To do 4K 240hz properly they'll need to have true full fat 80Gbps Displayport 2.0 sockets on the monitor and graphics card. Otherwise colours will just look washed out thanks to chroma subsampling.

 

[Kohl Baas]

To do 4K 240hz properly they'll need to have true full fat 80Gbps Displayport 2.0 sockets on the monitor and graphics card. Otherwise colours will just look washed out thanks to chroma subsampling.

Nah, they just have to compress the datastream into a subspace filament to accelerate the communication.

 

[TheLostSwede]

To do 4K 240hz properly they'll need to have true full fat 80Gbps Displayport 2.0 sockets on the monitor and graphics card. Otherwise colours will just look washed out thanks to chroma subsampling.

AUO only makes panels, so that's down to the final display maker.
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.

 

[siluro818]

It's not glare free as you can see in this picture, but the glare is controlled. Although, I'm not sure if the glare on the right is part of the demo video or not...

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It's from the Tekken 8 trailer.
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

 

[Chrispy_]

AUO only makes panels, so that's down to the final display maker.

I did notice that's an AUO-branded monitor.

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.

 

[TheLostSwede]

It's from the Tekken 8 trailer.
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

Could well have been my phone that kicked into HDR overdrive mode here...

I did notice that's an AUO-branded monitor.

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.

Yeah, they do that for trade shows, as it makes it much easier to bring the display panels around, rather than moving around loose panels, driver boards and power supplies...

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.