There was a time when buying a gaming monitor was inescapably synonymous with opting for 60 Hz as the refresh rate. And we were happy, we played everything with a smile on our faces and everything was simpler. Well, from that time to this part there is a race to get the lowest response time and the highest available hertz, because what used to be fun has now become professional for many. Because of this, AUO has presented its new panels for monitors and laptops 480Hz.
AUO is one of the top panelists in the market and as such is always innovating against its tough competitors. Although it is not the first time that we have heard about this type of high-performance panel, what the company has presented is now a reality when before it was a prototype in testing. So, in which peripherals or panels will they be able to implement it?
Gaming takes a new shape with 480 Hz AUO panels
The common mortals do not need such a panel, these are logically focused on players who aspire to be professionals or directly to the professionals themselves. In addition, the number of titles that these FPS can reach will be residual and they will surely enter the world of e-Sports such as LOL or CS:GO, while the rest will suffer simply to reach half that figure and with low settings. .
The only inconvenience that can be attributed to these panels and given the lack of information on the part of AUO (in its press release it does not even mention them, curious) is that they will be TN and not IPS. It is true that the first is still ahead of the second in response times, although the gap has been reduced to a minimum as such, giving a negative balanced value when the benefits of one and the other are weighed. Especially if we take into account that AUO has advertised a response time of 1 ms for these control panels. 480 Hz under TN.
The ghosting problem strikes again
The most logical thing would have been for AUO to launch these panels with a response time of less than 0.5 ms, but no, finally it will be with 1 ms which is going to represent, at least on paper, certain problems. Mainly because although it would arrive in a size of 24-inch (FHD) for desktop and 16 inches for laptopsin the latter the response time will be greater than that millisecond, which will undoubtedly generate Ghosting as such.
And it is that being based on LCD technology, response times of less than that millisecond are needed if you want to opt for those hertz rates as high as those 480Hz. The tests that were done at the time by Blurbuster show that the Ghosting effect in these panels was very acute and given the nullity of features and specifications given by AUO, nothing makes us think that they have solved it.
So it is more than likely that at the output of these panels the players who get them will have to live with this effect in their games to achieve that smoothness they need to win each game.
As expected, they have not revealed the arrival date or what the panel will cost, hopefully in 2023 are a reality, because this year will be complicated given the slowdown in China in production as such.
