{"video_id":"3iY0figLAwo","title":"You don't deserve this monitor - does 360hz gaming make a difference?","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2021-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":619,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":6.56,"text":"everyone knows that at high levels of competition the slightest advantage can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.319,"end_s":11.92,"text":"be the difference between chicken dinner and a sloppy second place sandwich so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.679,"end_s":18.199,"text":"competitive gamers should be really excited by the ASUS pg259q","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.519,"end_s":22.88,"text":"this is the first 360 hertz gaming monitor","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.6,"end_s":27.439,"text":"but can this fast ips panel even take advantage of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.519,"end_s":34.559,"text":"that kind of high refresh rate without becoming a blurry mess 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the ASUS pg259q this is the first 360 hertz gaming monitor but can this fast ips panel even take advantage of that kind of high refresh rate without becoming a blurry mess can any pc games even run at 360 frames per second and if they can will you a common gamer be able to properly appreciate the difference between this and an already insanely fast 240hz monitor i doubt it but our sponsor believes in you this is the new vengeance a4100 streamer pc from Corsair it's powerful it's beautiful and you can pick it up today at the link in the video description you've probably heard or even experienced that upgrading from a gaming monitor that refreshes at 60 hertz up to one that refreshes at 100 plus hertz is a much more noticeable jump than say going from 120 or 144 up to 240. that's because 60hz displays are showing you a new frame about every 16 and a half milliseconds whereas 120 to 144 hertz that's a new frame about every seven milliseconds that means that whatever you're looking at in that comparison is going to be twice as up to date then when we jump from 144 to 240 that only shaves three more milliseconds off and finally going from 240 to 360 that's an extra 120 refreshes per second above the existing fastest monitors around for a whopping savings of just 1.4 milliseconds each frame to find out if that's an improvement that can even be perceived by the average gamer we set up a blind test with the pg259q next to not one but three competing 240hz monitors to see if anyone including me could tell the difference i'm excited i really don't like this monitor this is good this one feels good yeah i'm guessing just purely off of how many of like this block i can see at once when i go like this i think i can see more of it 70 sure that this would be the highest refresh rate one really having a hard time even picking out the difference because these games are running at about yeah about 700 frames per second or above so i will say this is the 360 and everything else is the 240. i have no clue if i can do this uh you can see here like i'm basically just creating circles with this thing on all of them so it doesn't really matter if you have more frames if it's all just kind of a smeary mess anyway i think i might guess this one just because i feel like there's a bit more like trails behind the objects when i move it i want to say that the second one might be 360 hertz but that's kind of just a guess at this point honestly it's number three damn it really uh it really doesn't feel any different to me you think you're gonna bamboozle me eh not a chance i'm a pro gamer i need more wood i'm gonna say it's that one but i i i'm probably wrong so you're wrong cool i'm going with my gut feeling i don't even i don't even i can't like i can't tell but not only did i kind of feel like it was this one i scored the best on this one i'm saying it's one it's subtle he's this like yes i gave an answer yes it was correct don't read too much into it there were quite a few learnables here starting with that none of our gamers even the ones who guessed correctly were confidently able to identify the 360hz monitor from gameplay but is it just because the refresh rate jump is too small another factor could be the pixel response times remember guys if the pixels can't change color fast enough smeary motion blur could hurt the experience no matter how many times you refresh the picture per second by the way you should try refreshing ltteststore.com where the pictures are always clear wow we really shoehorned that one in anyway early 240 hertz monitors like the ASUS pg258q used tn panels the lcd technology with the fastest pixel response times by contrast the pg-259 pg259q uses an ips type panel which is traditionally known more for color accuracy and wide viewing angles rather than for speed so to see how the pixel response times of this new monitor compared to its 240hz tn predecessor we put together a blurbuster's pursuit camera setup which helps us capture the motion blur produced by the monitor without the blur introduced by persistence of vision you can see here the old tn has less ghosting but is actually a bit less clear with thicker lines and a bit of image doubling compared to itself running at 240hz the pg259q at 360 looks only slightly more clear but with a similarly slight increase in inverse ghosting caused by pixel overdrive and a lot more smearing on the dark background which suggests that the panel struggles with light to dark transitions and for bonus points by the way here it is compared to the samsung odyssey g7 which uses a va panel interestingly the clearest image we got from the pg259q was when it had ulmb turned on which is only available at 144hz and 240hz nothing more nothing less you know i'd actually love to see a pursuit camera setup of a high refresh rate OLED since they supposedly have instantaneous pixel response times which actually we can do when lg's cx 120 hertz OLED tv arrives make sure you guys sub so you don't miss that anyway with all that in mind is there any point in paying that's more expensive two to three hundred dollars more for the pg-259q compared to a last-gen 240hz monitor well probably in our video investigating how refresh rate affects the performance of pro gamers we discovered that it depends on the in-game scenario so even if this monitor doesn't offer much more motion clarity than existing offerings the higher refresh rate could still give you an advantage in situations like our csgo double door hallway test where having the most up-to-date information can make a huge difference and there are actually other ways that this monitor is just plain better than its predecessors take a look at this color accuracy yeah that's that's for real you could legitimately use this thing for gaming by night and creative color critical work by day as long as you're working in the srgb color space that's because as an 8-bit panel its gamut coverage isn't the greatest and unfortunately that doesn't change even if you use a graphics card that supports display stream compression rats that also plays into its HDR performance i mean hey it's hdr10 compatible but its low peak brightness keeps it from really shining in this respect and like most hdrint monitors as we call them it can look sometimes worse in HDR mode than in sdr it also has g-sync though and that is standard real g-sync not compatible or ultimate which means that its variable refresh rate range is completely unlimited and it means it has variable overdrive meaning less noticeable coronas at lower frame rates than you would get if it was overvolting the pixels the same across all frame rates it does have limitations as mentioned earlier it's got ulmb but notice the use of NVIDIA's acronym here ASUS usually calls their low motion blur e-lmb and might you expect it to have elmb sync that is backlight strobing while g-sync is on well sorry it doesn't you'll have to turn variable refresh rate off 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