Samsung 4K HDR TV vs PC monitor?!

[G-star93]

Hello,

so tomorrow I'm planning on buying GTX 1080Ti and I also need a new TV. So i'm thinking of getting Samsung 55"KS7000/8000 with input lag of 18-20ms. At first the plan was to buy a more budget TV, like Philips 6501 or LG UH615 so I can buy some good 1440p 144hz monitor. But now I'm thinkin of investing more in TV, I watch alot of movies, series, netflix, 4k gaming etc and in next 2-3 months I'll buy that monitor, because I can't afford all of that right now, due to some other things I have to pay for. So I will be using my old 24" LCD 1080P and that TV for 4k. What I want to know is, how much of input lag do monitors have? So I can get a better idea of how this TV will work as a monitor for gaming. I've heard some monitors are even up to 50ms of input lag and by input lag I don't mean the response time GTG(grey to grey). Can somebody please sent me some link with monitors input lags? Because I can't find anything. And if somebody has any experiance with KS7000(europe model) and KS8000(US model) I'd be more than happy to hear their opinions.

THanks in advance!

 

[Dunlop0078]

HDTVs in my experience tend to have much more input lag than a good gaming monitor. However I think those quantum dot displays are supposed to be pretty quick. I linked the display lag database below, it includes the KS8000, they measured it at 20ms which is very good for an HDTV. My monitor for example is a top of the line asus PG279Q 144hz IPS monitor, it has 12ms of input lag. Some high end TN panel monitors can have 5ms or less.

https://displaylag.com/display-database/

I personally care less about the input lag and more about the fact you will be stuck at 60hz, with a resolution that is very hard to drive in games without a very good system. But if you watch a lot of 4k content and care more about TV than gaming the HDTV is good choice over the monitor.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

1. A TV does not make a good gaming monitor.

2. With regard to lag and response times, we must define what we are talking about ... the nonsense they put in the advertisements or the results when tested in a lab. The two are worlds apart....often by a factor of 2 or 3 ... sometimes more. Most of the good guys are pretty good

3. The Gaming SOTA right new is the AU Optronics Panels, 165 Hz, IPS, 1440p.... the Psus PG279Q offers 8 bit color and the Acer Predator XB271HU offers 10 bit... The older Predator advertised 4ms G2G, it actually was 4.5 to 6.9. Input lag was 3.0

4. I can not recommend going to 4k at this time. The whole 4k world will go thru an abrupt change whereby the value of every4k screen on the market will lose a high percentage of its value. The new AU Optronics 4k, IPS 144 hz HDR panels are rumored to drop in the next week or so, and anybody who does anything 4k at this point in time is going to have a severe case of buyers remorse.

http://4k.com/news/nvidia-and-au-optronics-team-up-for-4k-uhd-display-at-144hz-in-asus-and-acer-monitors-18171/

To drive them, gain in a gaming environment, I would be thinking twin 1080 Tis.

 

[G-star93]

Thanks for both answers! As I said, this will just be temporary, I will do main gaming on 24" monitor, but on TV just from time to time some 4k, I even had enough powerful system before to run games in 4k maxed out, but now with new GPU there's no game I cant run on 4k maxed out at 60fps+. A little offtopic, I had LG 34UC79G for 9 days and I've returned it, it was dark as hell, didn't see almost anything when I was playing during day, I've even strugled at night on dark maps at battlefield 1. I'm thinkin of getting acer x27(forgot the exact model) IPS 1440p 144hz.