Gaming Monitors Are Getting Too Fast at Computex 2025

Three gaming monitors person been announced astatine Computex that are pushing the bounds connected refresh rates. The fastest of these shown disconnected astatine the elephantine computing commercialized amusement successful Taipei is the Asus ROG Strix Ace XG248QSG, a 1080p show with a 610Hz refresh rate. Both MSI and Acer person released 1440p displays with 500Hz refresh rates – a spec you'd beryllium hard pressed to drive, adjacent with an RTX 5090 and multi-frame generation.

Acer's exemplary is the Predator X27U F5, which is not lone accelerated but besides has a QD-OLED display, truthful it'll person unthinkable colour accuracy. Currently, this show is lone launching successful Europe and China, starting astatine €899. I person reached retired to Acer, and it said that the show volition beryllium coming to the US eventually, but wouldn't stock a terms connected it. Acer attributes this hold successful pricing to Tarriffs, and it's actively negotiating its pricing with retailers. The institution volition denote the US terms person to the X27U F5 hitting store shelves, but fixed however costly tech products are getting here, I wouldn't clasp my enactment that it'll beryllium affordable.

MSI is besides launching a QD-OLED sheet with the 27-inch MPG 271QR X50, though it didn't stock pricing information. What's absorbing present isn't needfully the fast, beauteous panel, but a chill AI feature. According to a study from PC Gamer, which went hands-on with it, the show has a tiny sensor astatine the bottommost of the show that'll consciousness erstwhile you determination away. It past sends that information to an NPU (Neural Processing Unit) truthful the show automatically turns off, starting its burn-in protection.

Burn-in extortion is communal successful immoderate OLED display, particularly successful a gaming show that'll person static images conscionable sitting determination implicit astir of its lifespan. The show shuts disconnected periodically to refresh the pixels and forestall burn-in. While having it beryllium AI-based is simply a small spooky, it's astatine slightest amended than the OLED extortion popping connected erstwhile you're successful the mediate of something.

Do Gaming Monitors Need to Be This Fast?

It's a small chaotic that we're getting 3 monitors that are this fast, but the Asus ROG Strix Ace XG248QSG evidently takes the cake. Even astatine 1080p, a 610Hz show is incredibly fast, adjacent successful a clip wherever we person Nvidia's multi-frame procreation boosting framework rates higher than ever. Even successful a crippled similar Marvel Rivals, you're going to request an RTX 5090 to deed that framework rate, and that'd necessitate multi-frame generation, which is mostly not advised successful competitory games arsenic it adds a small spot of latency.

You'd request much than conscionable a almighty graphics paper with this benignant of refresh rate; you'd request 1 hellhole of a CPU, too. You see, astatine these super-high framework rates, your CPU needs to beryllium almighty capable to support your graphics paper fed with data. Technology similar Nvidia Reflex and framework procreation mitigates that to a point, but erstwhile you commencement getting up astir 600-ish fps, you're going to request a almighty CPU regardless.

However, if you were capable to render a crippled that rapidly – particularly if you didn't person to usage framework procreation to get determination – you'd get incredibly debased render latency, which is simply a immense woody for competitory games. After all, there's a crushed wherefore competitory Counter-Strike 2 players tally the crippled connected the lowest settings, adjacent though the crippled tin tally connected a potato: A higher framework complaint means little input lag, and that tin beryllium the quality betwixt beingness and death. Whether oregon not that'll beryllium worthy the doubtlessly costly terms tag for astir radical is different question.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra