Review Alienware AW2524H 500 Hz Gaming Monitor Review

[Admin]

Alienware ups the refresh rate ante to 500 Hz with its AW2524H. It’s a 25-inch FHD IPS panel with G-Sync and HDR400. With a slightly expanded color gamut and edge zone dimming, it delivers amazing performance and a beautiful image.

Alienware AW2524H 500 Hz Gaming Monitor Review : Read more

 

[cknobman]

Its cool and all but only 25 inches?
Just too small for me, really wish there was at least a 27 inch or better yet a 32.

 

[Friesiansam]

500Hz is pointlessly fast and, it's clear from the test results, the panel is not fast enough to keep up.

 

[helper800]

500Hz is pointlessly fast and, it's clear from the test results, the panel is not fast enough to keep up.

Soon panel technologies will push its flaws past what humans can perceive, that is a good day in my book. I long for the day that motion blur, IPS glow, text fringing, pixel density, and many more are all solved by one monitor. That will be the day I get a new monitor.

 

[cristovao]

In a 10 meter room, light fills 30.000.000 times per second, so i don't think 500 or more frames in a monitor is going to break past human perception anytime soon!

 

[helper800]

In a 10 meter room, light fills 30.000.000 times per second, so i don't think 500 or more frames in a monitor is going to break past human perception anytime soon!

I dont know what you are talking about. What are you trying to say? Humans cannot perceive 30,000,000 "fills" of light. Please elaborate.

 

[usertests]

Required reading:

Blur Busters Law: The Amazing Journey To Future 1000Hz Displays

Strobeless ULMB. Blurless sample-and-hold. Blur-free with no flicker or strobing. Lagless. Coming within your lifetime.

blurbusters.com

Inputs include a single DisplayPort 1.4, two HDMI 2.1... The HDMI ports are limited to 240 Hz but include VRR for consoles.

How exactly do you get 1080p 500 Hz? The DisplayPort using Display Stream Compression?

 

[s997863]

I’ve been reviewing monitors long enough that occasionally, I have a “remember when” moment. Remember when all monitors refreshed at a fixed 60 Hz?

Remember when you opened a Geforce2 control panel on a CRT monitor and got refresh choices up to 120Hz?

 

[helper800]

Required reading:

Blur Busters Law: The Amazing Journey To Future 1000Hz Displays

Strobeless ULMB. Blurless sample-and-hold. Blur-free with no flicker or strobing. Lagless. Coming within your lifetime.

blurbusters.com

How exactly do you get 1080p 500 Hz? The DisplayPort using Display Stream Compression?

Settings to lower the bandwidth include; color subsampling, bit depth of those colors, and DSC are options to increase data throughput for a higher refresh rate. 4k is 4 times the resolution of 1080p and we have 4k monitors that are 144hz+. You can simply quadruple the hz on a 4k monitor and apply it to 1080p to see what is possible for peak hz throughput at 1080p. 4 times 144 is 576. So getting to 500hz or 480 without an OC on the monitor at 1080p is very doable even at 4:4:4 chroma, and 8 or 10 bit color, with or without DSC is my guess.

 

[blacknemesist]

Settings to lower the bandwidth include; color subsampling, bit depth of those colors, and DSC are options to increase data throughput for a higher refresh rate. 4k is 4 times the resolution of 1080p and we have 4k monitors that are 144hz+. You can simply quadruple the hz on a 4k monitor and apply it to 1080p to see what is possible for peak hz throughput at 1080p. 4 times 144 is 576. So getting to 500hz or 480 without an OC on the monitor at 1080p is very doable even at 4:4:4 chroma, and 8 or 10 bit color, with or without DSC is my guess.

The neo G8 does 4k@240hz with only DSC so 480hz 1080p seems to not even need any type of compression for dp1.4

 

[Sleepy_Hollowed]

I would personally would like it to be ultra wide, but it is what it is, this is the ultimate 1080p standard monitor for gaming anyways.

 

[helper800]

The neo G8 does 4k@240hz with only DSC so 480hz 1080p seems to not even need any type of compression for dp1.4

I am 99% sure that the monitor you mention does use DSC, but that would be news to me. I was pretty sure that the bandwidth limit for 4k was around 150hz without DSC and all normal chroma subsamplit and color bit depths.

 

[usertests]

Settings to lower the bandwidth include; color subsampling, bit depth of those colors, and DSC are options to increase data throughput for a higher refresh rate. 4k is 4 times the resolution of 1080p and we have 4k monitors that are 144hz+. You can simply quadruple the hz on a 4k monitor and apply it to 1080p to see what is possible for peak hz throughput at 1080p. 4 times 144 is 576. So getting to 500hz or 480 without an OC on the monitor at 1080p is very doable even at 4:4:4 chroma, and 8 or 10 bit color, with or without DSC is my guess.

I ask because according to this table, DP 1.4 (using HBR3) should only be capable of 406 Hz at 1080p 8-bit (not even 10-bit):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Refresh_frequency_limits_for_common_resolutions

That's full of caveats, like it's using CVT-RB v2 timing and could be pushed higher. It just seems like DP 1.4 is full of compromises for displaying 1080p 480-500 Hz and something has to be sacrificed, like color depth or chroma subsampling.

Then again, Display Stream Compression is intended to be "visually lossless". Maybe nobody buying this could actually notice, especially if the content is in motion and not static.