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Mint
5 days ago
- Mint
The refresh rate race got hotter with three new gaming monitors
The refresh rate race in gaming monitors is like the megapixel race that has always dogged smartphone cameras, with the latest releases from companies like Asus and Acer at the recently concluded Computex 2025 event in Taiwan upping the ante in terms of ever-expanding refresh rates. But first, let's, err, refresh our understanding of its significance: For gaming, an ideal refresh rate falls between 144Hz and 200Hz. Higher refresh rates (like 240Hz or beyond) can offer even smoother and more responsive gameplay, especially in fast-paced competitive games. However, a 144Hz or higher refresh rate is generally considered the sweet spot for most gamers, offering a significant improvement over the standard 60Hz refresh rate. You'd think that would be enough, right? No. In 2025, manufacturers are pushing the limits with unprecedentedly high refresh rate monitors. Two of them, from MSI and Acer, are 144p displays with a staggering 500Hz refresh rate—it's a bit puzzling actually because even if you have the top-of-the-line Nvidia RTX 5090 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) with multi-frame generation, you'd be unable to utilise all of it. But, one other monitor has blown even these two out of the water: the ROG Strix Ace XG248QSG (yes, that's a mouthful), from Asus with a 1080p display and an astounding 610Hz refresh rate. But, do we really need super-fast gaming monitors? With these kind of refresh rates, you're not only going to need a powerful graphics card (like Nvidia's RTX 5090) but also a top of the line CPU to support it (the CPU helps feed the GPU with data). Most games won't even be rendered this quickly, though. And yet, the refresh rate arms race is a live and kicking. Let's check out the three monitors unveiled at Computex and see what they have to offer beyond crazy refresh rates: Gaming guru The ROG Strix Ace XG248QSG, a 24.1-inch FHD monitor from Asus is going global. It's a Super TN panel, which has lower colour accuracy than IPS panels but is known for its incredible speed. Asus claims that this monitor has 90% DCI-P3 color coverage. One other advantage of this monitor over other high refresh rate models is the support for Extreme Low Motion Blur 2. This means that, according to the company, the panel is 65% brighter than its competitors. The highlight of the monitor is the absurdly fast 610Hz refresh rate. It's native refresh rate is 600Hz and it can be overclocked to 610Hz. It's got a 0.1ms response time, support for FreeSync Premium and G-Sunch. There's also the ROG Strix OLED XG34WCDMTG (yes, another mouthful). This is a 34-inch WQHD (3440×1440 resolution) QD-OLED monitor. This one features a 240Hz refresh rate and DCI-P3 99% color gamut, It vibrant, immersive, and enhances the gameplay visuals. This monitor has Google TV (based on Android 14) embedded. The Predator For 2025, Acer has unleashed the Predator X27U F5. This 26.5-inch WQHD QD-OLED gaming monitor has a 2560x1440 resolution and a 500Hz refresh rate. On top of that, it's got a 0.03ms response time and comes with AMD FreeSync Premium Pro (to reduce screen tearing) technology. It's VESA DisplayHDR TrueBlack 500 certified and has a whopping 1,6000,000:1 contrast ratio. In HDR mode, the peak brightness is 1000 nits (the native brightness is 300 nits). There are 2 DisplayPort 1.4 ports, 2 HDMI 2.1 ports, a USB-C port (with 65W charging), two USB 3.2 ports and an audio out port. Additionally, two 5W built-in speakers can be tilted, swivelled, and pivoted, with a height adjustment of up to 120mm. Acer also unveiled some other models alongside the Predator X27U F5. First up is the Predator X27 X. This is a 4K UHD QD-OLED gaming monitor with a more modest 240Hz refresh rate. Next up are the Nitro GA321QK P and GA341CUR W0 smart monitors. The Nitro GA321QK P is a 31.5-inch 4K UHD (3840×2160 resolution) display with an even more modest 165Hz refresh rate. Then comes the Nitro GA341CUR W0, a 34-inch ultra-wide QHD (3440×1440 resolution) display featuring a 240Hz refresh rate. The MSI MAG 272QP X50 MSI (aka Micro-Star International, a Taiwanese company) is billing the MPG 271QR QD-OLED X50 and MAG 272QP X50 as the world's first 27-inch WQHD (2K) QD-OLED gaming monitors with a huge 500Hz refresh rate. The mainstay of these monitors are that they feature Samsung Display's latest 3rd-gen QD-OLED panel. The advantage of this is an ultra-smooth motion for a truly immersive gaming experience. They've got a 2560x1440 resolution for crisp text, vivid colours and twice the pixel density of Full HD. The difference between them is that the MPG 271QR X50 gets a sensor, at the bottom of the display, that detects when you're away from the screen and automatically turns it off. - MPG 272URX: This 27-inch monitor has a 3840x2160p resolution, runs at 240Hz refresh rate and has comes with a 4th-gen QD-OLED panel. - MPG 322URX: Identical to the 272URX except that it has a bigger 31.5-inch screen. - MAG 272QPW: A 280Hz gaming monitor with a 3rd-gen QD-OLED panel. - MPG 274URDFW E16M: A 27-inch Rapid IPS monitor. This one offers a dual-configuration mode, meaning it can display UHD at 160Hz and FHD at 320Hz, so you can choose between better visuals or fast-paced gaming. - MPG 242R X60N: This one is for esports professionals. It's made using a Rapid TN panel, comes in a 24-inch size and offers a 600Hz refresh rate.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Yahoo
Freeware tool CPU-Z now warns you if your GPU doesn't have the correct number of ROPs
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Putting aside the relative lack of availability, high pricing and the odd concern about melting power connectors, an aspect of the RTX 50-series launch that Nvidia would probably like to put behind it is the case of the missing ROPs. For those of you that managed to get hold of an RTX-50 series card, however, popular freeware tool CPU-Z now warns you if your card doesn't have the correct number of Raster Operation Pipelines—by giving you an explicit warning in attractive purple text. Nvidia RTX 5090, RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs were reported with missing ROPs by multiple outlets, leading to diminished performance. Nvidia says less than 0.5% of cards have been affected—but even given that very small percentage, it's still probably worth a look to make sure your graphics card is giving you the performance it should be. There is a slight caveat, however (via Igor's lab). After installing CPU-Z, you'll first have to confirm your hardware specifications and upload them to the CPU-Z database by clicking the Validate button in the bottom right. After you've filled in your details, you'll be taken to a web page detailing your system specs, including how many shader units, texture units, and ROPs are reported by your graphics card. Should your GPU be missing a few, CPU-Z will handily provide a warning message in purple font telling you exactly how many ROPs your graphics card is reporting and how many it's supposed to have. That should make it easier to confirm if your card has been affected by the missing ROP issue, so you can contact your graphics card manufacturer to request a replacement. Which all sounds like a hassle, but hey, you paid for a certain number of ROPs, and thereby you should receive them. It's certainly nice to see a freeware tool developer responding to recent concerns with a handy update, at the very least. I routinely use CPU-Z to check all kinds of info on every system I review to make sure it's configured correctly, so I can personally recommend it as an excellent tool to install—even if a new RTX 50-series card isn't in your immediate future. Best CPU for gaming: Top chips from Intel and gaming motherboard: The right graphics card: Your perfect pixel-pusher SSD for gaming: Get into the game first.
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
You can buy this AMD rig with 7 water-cooled Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs and receive it in a week but it will cost $102,000
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. At least two workstation specialists have put supercharged PCs with Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs on sale over the past few days. The most impressive of them all is the Bizon ZX5500 which packs up to seven (yes, seven) water-cooled 32GB RTX 5090 GPUs in a tall tower casing. This is the best GPU ever built and buying it through system builders seems to be the only way to avoid months-long wait. While BizonTech's solution will probably feature in our best workstation guide, it is not as expansive as Comino's Grando server, which has eight RTX 5090 GPUs, but the latter has yet to get a launch date (I contacted Comino for more details). The ZX5500 doesn't come cheap at just under $102,000 with the GPUs accounting the lion share (more than 83%) of the total cost. That's almost 3x the price of MIFCOM's Big Boss which has seven liquid-cooled RTX 4090 GPUs. A beefier 6Kw power supply unit plus and the cards cost an extra $85,000 compared to the same system with a pair of RTX 5080 (with 16GB VRAM each). As a reminder, the suggested retail price of the RTX 5090 is 'just' $2000. The ZX5500 can be updated to a 96-core ThreadRipper Pro CPU with 1TB of DDR5 RAM, almost 1PB of PCIe 4.0 SSDs (15 x 61.44TB SSD) and seven liquid-cooled Nvidia H200 AI GPU; such a configuration pushes the price above half a million US Dollars. Bizontech is a niche boutique vendor that specializes in servers, workstations and clusters for AI, deep learning and HPC. The RTX 5090 is sold out pretty much everywhere and it seems that Nvidia is prioritizing business and creative outlets like Bizontech, Puget Systems and Punch Technology, with workstations seemingly ready to be shipped within days rather than week. Jon Bach, President, Puget Systems told me, 'Supply for the 5090 (and the 5080) is very limited, and we expect that to be the case for at least through March. Puget Systems has a good number of cards in hand at the moment because of our OEM relationships, but we appear to be somewhat unusual in that respect. Overall, we are filling orders, but expect our lead times to be affected until supply improves." The creative crowd will love the RTX 5090 as it obliterates absolutely everything in its path but at a price. Puget Systems and Storagereview benchmarked it across a wide range of AI and creative tests and found that it performed significantly better than previous generations (and AMD's finest cards) albeit with a much higher power station. TechRadar's John Loeffler published a review of the RTX 5090 recently, calling it the supercar of graphics cards and asking whether it was simply too powerful, suggesting that it is an absolute glutton for wattage. He continues, 'It's overkill, especially if you only want it for gaming, since monitors that can truly handle the frames this GPU can put out are likely years away.' This, of course, will be irrelevant to Nvidia's plans to launch an even more powerful version of the RTX 5090, one with a rumored 96GB GDDR7 memory which will replace the RTX 6000 ADA in due time. If this card follows the same inflationary trajectory as its consumer version then I won't be surprised if its ticket price reaches $15,000, making it the most expensive graphics card of all time. Exclusive: Nvidia's fastest AI chip ever is finally available for preorder First Nvidia GH200 Grace Hopper desktop supercomputer now on sale How to choose the right server for small businesses
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
A European storefront listing suggests the RTX 5070 Ti may be launching on February 20 and there might actually be a good reason to believe it
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. With the Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 launching next week, many potential buyers have been eyeing up the more budget-oriented (okay, they're still going to be quite expensive) cards from the 50 series and we could potentially get them as soon as February 20. However, as always before the launch of a major card, it's worth taking that information with a grain (or teaspoon) of salt. As reported by Videocardz, retailer Proshop recently listed an RTX 5070 Ti, and at the very top of the page, it says the card is launching on February 20, at 3 PM. I checked out this page and, as of the time of writing, it still says it will be launching that day. The date and time seem fairly specific but there are a few reasons why this could be the case. The first is that this is simply a placeholder date given in the system, that might not have been intended to actually go live on the website. When I first saw this information, that was my instinct. I'm prepared for most dates before big gaming moments to be some sort of admin error that is being blown out of proportion. However, this one is a slight bit different. The page in question has that specific date and time but so too does every RTX 5070 Ti I could find on Proshop from any brand. There are currently two pages of search results for RTX 5070 Ti on the storefront and every single one of them has the same date and time. This is certainly peculiar, especially when you consider no such date has been given for the 5070, which just says it will launch at some point in March. Proshop is a reputable Danish retailer but there is a potential other cause for every single 5070 Ti having the same date. We don't know the details of the backend of the site but something like this could have a broader website category and the page furniture, like 'hot' and 'new', and the release date at the top could be automatically added to products of a certain category. The fact that all 5070s have the same basic release date formatting could back this up too. Essentially, what I'm saying is don't book that day off to stand in line for your shiny new graphics card (especially when you consider some manufacturers are getting a 'single digit' amount of cards). However, I think there's more reason to pay attention to this specific release date than most pre-launch rumours. And yes, the RTX 4070/Ti cards launched significantly longer than a month after the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090, but the 50-series doesn't seem to be following the previous generation's release cadence this time around, so who knows? All I'm saying is, if you're on the hunt for a new RTX 5070 Ti, it's not impossible that you could have one by this time next month. Proshop just so happens to have 28 different 5070 Ti cards available, if you live in Europe. I'd know as I counted them all, each and every one. Best gaming PC: The top pre-built gaming laptop: Great devices for mobile gaming.
