when you're talking about high refresh rate gaming monitors what counts as high
144 hertz 240 hertz well be prepared to
rewrite your personal dictionary because i'm standing in the ASUS suite where
they're showing off an rog swift 360. and no i'm not talking about that april
fool's joke that they made last year this time the 360 means a refresh rate
of a staggering 360 hearts how do they build this what's
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i know you're thinking 360 hertz is probably way overkill for most people i
mean everyone knows that upgrading from 60hz to 144hz is a much more meaningful
jump than the more incremental jumps from say 165 to 240. that's true and the
trend of diminishing returns does continue when you jump from 240 to 360
but that does not mean that players won't gain an advantage that matters i
mean this thing feels ungodly smooth as you can imagine and using this new
blurbusters side by side test you can see that the nameplates on these dota
characters are markedly clear than even on a 240hz monitor according to a paper
published by NVIDIA who worked with ASUS on this fully g-sync monitor high-ranked
competitive players playing at 360 hertz increased their flick shot accuracy by
an average of four percent above their own performance playing at 240 hertz now
four percent may not be worth it to you and your average gamer's wallet but for
esports pros that could be the one kill that wins the game the tournament and
the prize money but why are we seeing this monitor now in 2020 was there some
kind of technological breakthrough that's pushing displays forward in a moore's
law kind of way well surprisingly not yeah it does use a new 1080p panel from
au optronics but the real trick is increasing the rate that the new frames
are being drawn the refresh rate without screwing up every other link in the
display chain it's like if i woke up tomorrow and my legs were six inches
longer yeah i'd be taller but my torso would look short and i would like walk
funny and i might not even be able to reach my own feet is that the kind of
height i want it's kind of the same thing here increasing the refresh rate
affects the display's backlight timing because if it can't keep up then you're
gonna get ghosting that's artifacts from previous frames still visible on the
current frame it affects pixel response times because if you want the pixels to
change values very quickly you need to supply the liquid crystal membrane with
the perfect amount of voltage so that it can twist and untwist with a high degree
of accuracy so you still get proper colors and it affects uniformity across
the display because imperfections are way more noticeable in such a low motion
blur environment the fact that all these variables are interconnected is one of
the reasons ASUS worked closely with both the panel manufacturer au optronics
and NVIDIA with this product you see many people think that g-sync means
variable refresh rate but it's actually a lot more than that it's a processor
that controls many elements in the display chain from the t-con to the
scalar even the on-screen display the more of these elements that are
controlled by a single company the easier it is to make a high-performance
product it's why iphone displays feel smoother than many Android phone
displays even though they're perhaps both amoled made by samsung and maybe
they're both 60 hertz all the ingredients need to work together
perfectly for the recipe to work so even if other companies use this panel
sometime in the future after ASUS's exclusivity deal expires like six months
or whatever after this monitor launches in the first half of this year those
other displays likely will still use full-on g-sync but how much is it going
to cost that's an interesting question part of the reason that the rog swift
360 which may not be its final name by the way exists at all is because of
binning meaning au optronics makes a
batch of panels but just by virtual manufacturing they don't all have the
same performance with a product like this only the top top top panels from
this batch will be suitable to become a swift 360. this relates to the price
because it's still unknown how many panels will be good enough to make the
grade ASUS also needs to decide if the 360's launch will push prices of their
own other monitors down or if the price of those monitors will stay the same and
this monitor will create a whole new price category all its own iphone 10
style what i can say is that the rg swift 360 should be in the 550 to 650
ish us dollar price range and even if
you're not hardcore enough to buy one of these this new competitor should make
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