News Asus Launches 27-inch, 300 Hz QHD Gaming Monitor

This speed is getting absurd. Show me someone who can tell the difference between a 240Hz monitor and a 300Hz monitor in gaming and I'll show you someone with bionic eyes or is only fooling themselves. I can tell the difference between 60hz and 120-144Hz (but not between 120-144Hz). However, moving up to 240Hz the difference is not nearly as stark if even at all and not being psychological. Diminished returns on the eye's capability (no matter how young your eyes are) increase exponentially relative to cost of monitors like this. This of course is all moot if you game at 4K like me where in the heaviest GPU demanding games with RT you'll be lucky to max out your 120Hz/4K monitor at the same FPS even with a high end GPU.
 

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In competitive games the case is not if you can see many frames but the delay until the next frame is pumped to the screen after exiting the GPU.
120 Hz = processing + 8,33 ms + pixel response; and in 300 Hz = processing + 3 ms + pixel response.
If you account for the improved processing times and pixel response in addition to the refresh lag you up to 5 times less lag on your end.
Can you see the advantage other than the number of frames ?
 
In competitive games the case is not if you can see many frames but the delay until the next frame is pumped to the screen after exiting the GPU.
120 Hz = processing + 8,33 ms + pixel response; and in 300 Hz = processing + 3 ms + pixel response.
If you account for the improved processing times and pixel response in addition to the refresh lag you up to 5 times less lag on your end.
Can you see the advantage other than the number of frames ?

The other factor is a high quality higher refresh should have less ghosting or inverse ghosting leading to sharper fast moving images which helps accuracy.

If all else was equal I’d be surprised if anyone could tell the difference in Hz only between 240 and 300 but ‘if’ the panel can handle fast moving images better then that may be noticeable. I have a 240Hz and 144Hz displays, both 1440p. If I set the 240Hz to 144Hz it still looks clearer than my native 144Hz with fast moving images because it’s a better performing panel.