Review Asus ROG Swift PG248QP 540 Hz gaming monitor review: Raw speed and performance

[Admin]

Asus’ ROG Swift PG248QP breaks new ground with a 540 Hz overclock. Also packed into this 24-inch TN FHD panel is Nvidia’s G-Sync Processor with Latency Analyzer and ULMB 2. The image is enhanced by HDR and wide gamut color.

Asus ROG Swift PG248QP 540 Hz gaming monitor review: Raw speed and performance : Read more

 

[javiindo]

Now you need to find a game you can play at 540 hz. Even with dlss3 it's not easy and to use dlss3 initroduce some latency .

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

Not to be nit picky but color gamut is normally just a variable of back light and color filter quality. High Color Rendering Index leds emit a higher percentage of the visible light spectrum as well as higher light intensity in the areas of the visible spectrum that normal leds have a hard time producing in quantity (IE: deep reds, and cyan), and color filters can be made to inhibit color cross-talk and optimize polarization states, so I’m confused why sacrificing color gamut is typically correlated to high refresh rate when it does not affect refresh rate in any way?

 

[helper800]

If i cared about anything past 240hz, I would wait for a monitor such as the one talked about in this article. LG claims to have achieved 480hz OLED panels at 2560x1440. OLEDs motion clarity as a baseline has been the highest among panel technologies in my experience. My 120hz CX OLED from LG looks better in motion handling that my own 165hz IPS display from viewsonic. Th OLED CX also looks better, imo than my friends non-OLED 240hz samsung panel. If you are going to spend nearly 1000 dollars, imo its better to wait for a bigger leap in tech like the aforementioned LG panels.

 

[Phaaze88]

Folks already achieve ultra high fps on monitors that can't display it, so why should they spend money on products like this?


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[UnforcedERROR]

Now you need to find a game you can play at 540 hz. Even with dlss3 it's not easy and to use dlss3 initroduce some latency .

This is a monitor almost exclusively for games like CS2 and Valorant, which aren't hard to run at high FPS. A 4090 at 1080p will get you 800 FPS in Valorant, for instance. A good CPU + GPU will get you the same in CS2 (Source engine is CPU-reliant). It's for the people who want to reduce input latency as low as possible, and it's a fairly niche space.

That said, I think it's interesting this article credits the VG248 as the monitor that ushered in fast refresh monitors, considering the XL2420T beat it to market by a year, even if it was only 120hz. I'd argue that was the first real high refresh LCD monitor, and I remember it changing the competitive FPS landscape a lot at the time.

 

[Tom Sunday]

Folks already achieve ultra high fps on monitors that can't display it, so why should they spend money on products like this?

I can appreciate the mentioning that video processing and speed here are on the next level. I only play three owned games, (Fallout 4, Dishonored and Wolfenstein New Order) will these at anything even close to the processing speed and image smoothness as advertised give me more of a real-live sensation and gaming WOW factor never experienced before? Like repairing the roads and roofs in Sanctuary faster and improving NPC fluidity? Of course true enthusiast gaming today is usually played on a 32-34 inch monitors for all the good reasons. Not customarily on a 24 inch screen! Then today what professional would do actual work on a 24-inch screen? Finally who would buy such monitor and then for almost a WTF $900?

 

[CmdrShepard]

This is the lamest and most deceptive review I ever read on Toms Hardware ever since the site was created.

Why? Because it left out one of the most important tech spec items -- viewing angles.

Viewing Angle (CR≧10) : 170°/ 160°

TN panels are fast sure, but they are trash when it comes to viewing angles.

With 160 degrees vertical viewing angle you just need to slump in your chair a bit, and what you will see on the screen will no longer have any resemblance of the original color and contrast as when you were looking at it dead center at a 90 degrees angle.

Also, the claim is made in this "review" (more like a paid ad!) that this monitor covers over 89% of DCI P3 color space while the tech specs on ASUS website do not mention DCI P3 support anywhere -- they claim 125% sRGB which is a pure marketing garbage. 25% more than sRGB? in which direction on the color chart?. I checked the ICM profile using ICC Profile Inspector and it turns out only in R and G direction (B is well within sRGB if not a bit less) I doubt that monitor even has a DCI P3 color setting in the menu.

The author should be ashamed for writing such low quality content.