Acer being one of the titan companies designing and creating some of the best leading technologies for computer displays has delayed it’s highly anticipated next-gen panel, the 4K 144Hz monster.
The monitor itself is a 4K 144Hz HDR G-Sync gaming panel that is going to raise the bar quite considerably of high-end PC enthusiast gaming. For people interested in purchasing one of these displays once it is launched you should be aware of the fact that there is no known hardware available at a consumer based level that can even push this display to it’s absolute limit. 4K @ 144z is something gamers have been wanting to experience since the release of 4K displays and now even if you have two NVIDIA 1080Ti cards in SLI the graphics cards won’t even be able to reach that.
Due to the fact that it is currently impossible for the current hardware to meet the requirement of 144Hz @ 4K this may be the reason why Acer has delayed the release of their new panel to the market, perhaps they are waiting for NVIDIA to release their new GPU so it can line up with the release of the monitor.
Source: Tweak Town
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i think they did it to align the launch with nvidia volta launch.
Yeah, I dont think even Volta will be hitting those framerates in more demanding titles(1080ti can be reduced to 3-40fps by certain titles), but will probably give it a step up towards higher fps
The 1080Ti performs identically to the Xp, where the f´ck do you get this magical 33% increase from…
@Putin, the original Titan pascal was same as 1080ti, the actual XP version was 33% faster than even 1080ti.
I agree it can get 4k 60fps in a lot of games at highest or very high settings(I own one)
But other games still are crippled by the higher settings (Ubisoft games such as Watchdogs 2, AC Unity and syndicate, Quantum break, Deus Ex MD)
It’s a fallacy to say those games aren’t well optimised. They scale very well across hardware. They’re just very demanding as they are primarily crested with consoles in mind and therefore 30fps.
Crysis 3 still can’t hold 60fps on yne 1080ti, deus ex is great with exception of lighting settings (again very demanding).
Quantum break runs wonderfully now as long as you accept you can’t max everything out (again people underestimate how demanding that game is and with good reason.. It’s beautiful)
It’s a 4k 60fps most the time…. but you have to accept compromises at times too
Well i dont care much about 4k now cause we need to wait 2 to 3 year for the gpu to really handle 40k 60+fps let alone 144hz
Sweet spot RN is 144hz/1440p imo. 4k/144hz is more like 2-3 years down the road for single gpu owners. I’d take smoothness of 144fps/1440P over 60fps/4K anyday of the week. Add to taht Freesync or Gsync. You end up being the smoothest guy in the world.
I’m with you. I’ve finally hit the sweet spot myself with a 1080 Ti and a 1440p 144 Hz G-SYNC monitor. The further amount of alias reduction at 4K from 1440p is very hard for me to perceive, and that says a lot, considering I’m VERY sensitive to aliasing.
I see no benefits on a 4K screen from 1440p; none at all. Not in games anyways.
Im thinking of going that route as well. but with HDR.
Indeed 1080ti with 1440p is quite the sweet spot right now. Clarity and fluidity.
Consoles can’t get this. Rip. I wish i could play NHL on pc or on ps4 with 144fps. It would be glorious 🙁
Well yea good point but right now 144hz/4k isn’t there yet. Or if it is, it’s quite too early to jump on it. Once i can get my hands on a IPS 4k/144hz gsync monitor (possibly from asus rog lineup) and a volta gpu welp then we ‘ll be talking:)
144hz on a 4k screen is pointless since people use 4k screens for boring story driven games not competitive games, poor marketing skills by acer
eh…?
market of higher frequency screens lean insanely towards competitive gaming, competitive gaming needs every frame possible, 4k resolution is not something you’d go for in that regard, do i have to explain everything to you people?
i swear each day you write more r e t a r d e d stuff than usual
4K screens are for immersion and now they’re fit for competative as well
(4ms response time, high refresh rate, still no word if it’s TN or IPS but my guess is IPS)
people who buy this monitor are not gonna spend their time playing sodawatch or triggerfield, they’re gonna play immersive games like Metro, bioshock, dishonored and Witcher
4K with highrefresh rates is becoming more and more affordable each year
heck, a single 1080TI can run witcher 3 max setting on 60+ FPS
two cards can easily push 100+ FPS on average (possibly even more if they use the intended Nvidia SLI bridge)
i swear your brain works in such backward ways that i cannot possible comprehend why it’s happening to you.
4ms is not enough when it comes to competitive gaming, if you can get 2 frames by going from 4k to 640×480 you should do it immediately, as i explained it’s a poor marketing skill by acer, the widest audience and demands of higher frequency are competitive gamers, what acer has done in here is trying to cover variety parts of market but they way they go about it is something that every major marketing book recommends against it.
of course i understand a teenager who looks at this industry as a from of entertainment, art and friendly communication between producers and consumers instead of a business purely designed to make money wouldn’t understand tiny bit about what’s going on
4ms is more than enough for competative gaming
as for FPS, you’ed obviously know if you’re buying a 144hz 4k screen that the owner will most likely have a 1080TI in SLI unless he’s r e t a r d e d
this is why you fail to understand what is Acer is doing, they’re doing a “no compromise” type of monitor which might garner a lot of attention considering how well the X34 ultra wide has sold (ultra wide is the future for gaming)
which it’s not ultra wide, though it looks massive (like 32 inch HDTV massive) for a monitor
honestly it doesn’t need more than 100hz but you know it doesn’t matter if you don’t maximize the 144hz as long you’re hitting more than 100 FPS consistently
obviously you know jack shet about competitive games, no one is going for 4ms instead of 1ms, when it comes to first person shooting games people go for lower resolutions, the most popular are 800×600 and even 640×480.
other sort of games people usually go for 1280×1024 to get extra frames even if their screen frequency is a 60hz because it makes difference but i’m not going to explain that to you. you can use google
as i said you absolutely have no idea what you’re talking about, not a single clue, rest of your comment is gibberish because you have no logic, you don’t know the basic about competitive gaming and you don’t know the basic about marketing
listen you braindead buffon, i used to own a 144hz TN 1ms monitor
the asus PG278Q
and i can tell you that the difference between 1ms and 4ms is so minimal you have to be insanely attentive to notice it
the difference between IPS and TN in color accuracy and clarity is so huge that the 1ms is simply not worth it
competative means jack$hit if you’re not making money, stop masturbating on CS GO and go play some real games
you have low iq accept it and move on
says the guy who says “everyone here is autistic”
i once thought you were a troll but now i realize you’re not a troll
you’re just hopelessly dumb and possibly have ADHD
i pray for your fast and speedy recovery
i do have adhd, that’s racist
racist? how?
or you’re braindead too?
calling me braindead, oh the irony
Make response time 1ms or less and i’ll be impressed and ready to buy. guess i’ll have to wait for oled. which is what they should be doing not this nonsense.
Considering I bought a 1080p 144hz screen when I was not able to handle those fps I would really consider this screen for a future purchase. I just hope it will be at least 32″
Its has G-Sync so you don’t need constant 144fps…
G-Sync doesn’t magically make lower framerates look like higher framerates. It improves the consistency and pacing that you perceive between frames since you don’t have V-Sync redrawing the same frame until it receives a new one from the GPU, eliminating that perceived “stutter” between each frame when your frame rate is below your monitor’s refresh rate.
You don’t need 144 Hz constantly for a consistently “smooth” experience, no, but, if 144 Hz is something you’re after, then more than likely you appreciate the difference in motion when you’re running at 144 FPS vs 104 FPS – I certainly notice the difference and I prefer keeping my frame rate toward the former more than the latter. However, it is admittedly much better than the old days of just trying to keep barely above that 60 FPS mark so I could enable V-Sync without getting that stutter every time I’d dip below 60
Sweet Jesus 144Hz and 4K?!
how much is this thing of beauty gonna cost?
Well, true that amds gpus are a let down. Also aren’t you the one that claimed to play 4k game on ultra at 60fps ++? Based on that it’s easy to do the math that a 1080ti would easily do 144fps/2k in many games 😉 but not all, true dat.
that’s what i’m trying to tell that other thick guy, you are the minority audience of higher frequency monitors, it is meant for competitive gaming at first place, even if a server’s tickrate is 64 which in csgo for example most community servers aren’t you’d still have advantages which i think 3kliksphilip made a video about it years ago
btw i’m not saying you’re thick too because you don’t know about overall smoothness of your screen regardless of server tickrate, i used the word thick for generalization
Who cars you can but 127-28” 4k 60 hz monitor for just 350 euros now.
So 700-900 euros for GTX 1180 and another 700 euros for this monitor? No thanks iam keeping my 1440p monitor DELLP2416D and my GTX 970 until they release a card that can run 8k max settings. But if monitor burns until then i will just get a 4k 60 hz 27” with the best gpu avalliable at that time if something like this happens(that i hope wont happen).