IPS monitor good or bad for gaming?

[Bhavesh0723]

I want to know whether ips monitor are good for gaming or bad?
they have nice color reproduction compare to led
its slow response time is giving me tension.

 

[burdenbound]

I would say unless you are a competitive first person shooter you will be fine with the response time on an IPS monitor. If your going to be doing league gaming look for a 144Hz TN panel with 1ms response time, if this is not you get the eye candy of the IPS.

 

[Pinhedd]

I want to know whether ips monitor are good for gaming or bad?
they have nice color reproduction compare to led
its slow response time is giving me tension.

They're excellent for gaming. I've been using one for the past 4 years.

 

[RCFProd]

5ms is still a really fast response time. Only die-hard hardcore professional players will worry about 5ms.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

It's kinda like asking if steaks taste good.... much depends on where you get them and how much they cost.

We have both both TN and IPS to choose from .... when doing graphical art work or retouching photos the Dell $1,000 Dell IPS is the one everyone wants. When gaming, it goes Asus 144 Hz (1st), Asus 120 Hz (2nd) and Dell IPS (3rd) .... while the colors are more accurate on the Dell, the 60Hz is a downer.... no Lightboost and lag / ghosting tend to bother the gamer more than whether the hero's armor is ice blue or perrywinkle. The other thing that bothers me personally is that in dark areas ... you see approaching baddies in your torchlight sooner on the TNs the IPS.

However come April 15th when it becomes available supposedly, the new Acer IPS Predator w/ IPS has overcome IPSs shortcomings by going to 144 Hz and G-Sync thereby unseating the Asus Swift as the best available gaming monitor.

 

[Bhavesh0723]

I m on a tight budget
also will i see 60fps with 60hz and 120fps with 120hz when i play a game.
i m talking about noticeable difference

 

[burdenbound]

I m on a tight budget
also will i see 60fps with 60hz and 120fps with 120hz when i play a game.
i m talking about noticeable difference

If you system can run your chosen game at above 60 fps then a 120Hz monitor will let you take advantage of up to 120fps. There is a noticeable difference between 60 and 120fps. I personally have my 1440p IPS monitor running at 96Hz and when I can get games to run that quickly it is noticeably more smooth than 60fps.

 

[Bhavesh0723]

by competitive first person shooter what is that means?
are you refereeing to multiplayer first person shooter?

 

[RCFProd]

Sort of but not close. Multiplayer first person shooter like Battlefield 4 is not competitive at all.

Major Gaming Leagues for severe online Counter Strike battles between professional players would need the best response time possible.

Most gamers aren't competitive and prefer a good image quality.

 

[Bhavesh0723]

far cry 4, battlefield franchise, call of duty franchise, needf or spped franchise
are these types of games affected by ips?

 

[RCFProd]

No, definitely get IPS for those games.

 

[burdenbound]

Sort of but not close. Multiplayer first person shooter like Battlefield 4 is not competitive at all.

Major Gaming Leagues for severe online Counter Strike battles between professional players would need the best response time possible.

Most gamers aren't competitive and prefer a good image quality.

Exactly, if your signing up for competition then you want a really fast monitor.

 

[Pinhedd]

It's kinda like asking if steaks taste good.... much depends on where you get them and how much they cost.

We have both both TN and IPS to choose from .... when doing graphical art work or retouching photos the Dell $1,000 Dell IPS is the one everyone wants. When gaming, it goes Asus 144 Hz (1st), Asus 120 Hz (2nd) and Dell IPS (3rd) .... while the colors are more accurate on the Dell, the 60Hz is a downer.... no Lightboost and lag / ghosting tend to bother the gamer more than whether the hero's armor is ice blue or perrywinkle. The other thing that bothers me personally is that in dark areas ... you see approaching baddies in your torchlight sooner on the TNs the IPS.

However come April 15th when it becomes available supposedly, the new Acer IPS Predator w/ IPS has overcome IPSs shortcomings by going to 144 Hz and G-Sync thereby unseating the Asus Swift as the best available gaming monitor.

I have a Dell U3011 and use it as my main display. There's no ghosting at all and response time is barely noticeable. Fast moving text can be hard to read, but that's about it.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

far cry 4, battlefield franchise, call of duty franchise, needf or spped franchise
are these types of games affected by ips?

The generic question is not answerable. If you are comparing a $199 TN and a $199 IPS, the TN in a heartbeat. It comes down to which IPS versus which TN. Was a time where anything less than $600 IPS meant unsatisfactory performance.... that number is dropping.

It also depends on how **you** see your screen. If you look at still images which most tend to do for comparison purposes (see youtube comparisons), the IPS will look better.... on moving images, much less so, especially if you are sensitive to ghosting. Look at tftcentral's response time and ghosting tests on older models and you'd say no way to IPS.

Obviously the TN image of the Asus has less ghosting than the Dell IPS. And back in July, the Asus Swift was pretty much universally acknowledged as the best gaming monitor available. Now, with G-Sync and ULMB, the Predator to my eyes has knocked Asus off the perch.

It's close but I gotta give the Acer IPS Predator the edge ..... but that's the only IPS panel so far that has done it.

So again, a $199 TN will be better than a $199 IPS.....from an image / color accuracy standpoint, IPS wins.... from a lag / ghosting standpoint, TN wins .... it will depend on what each individual is more sensitive to, so the answer will be different for different folks with different sensitivities and different usages. But right now, if I had $800 in my pocket, I'd take the Predator IPS as with the addition of G-Sync and ULMB, it offers the best of both worlds at this point in time.