Which 240Hz Gaming Monitor is the Best?

240 Hertz monitors like this one didn't even exist just a few short years ago but now there's a ton of them on the market including for the first time ever ones that feature IPS panels rather than the conventional TN so today we're gonna see if Linus and a couple of other or hardcore gamers around here can tell the difference between the eSports gold standard a cheaper alternative and two IPs type newcomers and how their opinions stack up against more objective measures right after this message from our sponsor smartdeploy smartdeploy allows IT departments to reimage unlimited computer models from one golden image search their library for your models and grab your exclusive offer at smartdeploy comm slash Linus [Music] it is amazing how different the colors can look from one display where presumably they're all after the same result and another this is kind of trippy actually whoa I'm gonna start with viewing angles you know teens have gotten a lot better from the side this is definitely a TN but viewing angles are actually not bad even from top down like if I was standing behind someone gaming at their chair like that's fine it's not till you get low and look up at it oh yeah there's the color inversion that's the end though so at home I have the Zoey 25:46 240 yards monitor and I love it if I was anywhere but staring directly straight at it it's a piece of garbage I can't tell if it's just the coding that's hurting this one the darker colors are just kind of disappearing and kind of approaching a mid gray and I feel like as a gamer I don't really care about viewing angles too much I'll have you playing a game hardcore on this right some maybe sent it off again no contest number two is clearly the TN panel I'm gonna be very disappointed if this is like mine I'm gonna give worst viewing angles to this one mostly because it's just so dim in the first place I don't think it actually shifts that much more compared to this one but this is a lot brighter a lot easier to look at I'm pretty impressed with three and four I think they have pretty exceptional viewing angles where the quality of the color and the light isn't drastically changing the further over I get that's not a TN panel and that's not a TN panel to my eyes monitor number three here even though it has the best colors facing it dead-on has a greater color shift and a greater brightness reduction compared to our other non TN panel here so I rated that one number two for viewing angles I'm gonna choose four as my first three is my second than one and then two best color reproduction I feel is kind of obvious I hope it's obvious number four just seems truer to life which is a bit weird because it's a game but if life were a game I imagine it would look more like that I like the nut more natural look but that might just be the choice of color temperature on number three for looks a little over warm to me so I'm gonna rank the colors 1 3 4 - best color reproduction has got to be number three one thing that you can see on both of the TN panels though is the sleeves and the gloves are both green on this one they're both yellow on this one and then we look at one of the IPS and lo and behold they're supposed to be green and brown oops there's just something about number two that makes it look really cheap if life were a game I feel like I'm a bit blind I have cataracts you can really tell on the green and the barrel this one is just like has blue in it as well this just seems like grayish with a tinge of green the third one this is definitely calibrated to a colder temperature than the one on the right the one on the right I find the green looks a bit better but it's close brightness and dynamic range I'm gonna have to go somewhere where I have both shadows and highlights and view this one definitely loses some detail down here in the shadows compared to our TN the problem though is that some of these gaming monitors go out of their way actually to boost detail in the shadows so that's not necessarily a strong indication of their dynamic range what I can do that's not dependent on that however is look at black portions of the mini-map compared to the brightest areas of the screen alright counter-strike is designed to not really have really dark areas so that it's more competitive there's no areas you can go and just hide so it's not immediately apparent which one has crazier dynamic range I feel like number four is doing a little bit better job resolving the detail inside of this window I can see that a little bit more worse here it just kind of looks dark so I'm gonna give the edge to four on this one then three and then two deepest blacks but dimmest display a lot of points off for that this surprises me but I think this TN is actually better than that IPS in terms of the difference between the brightest brights and the darkest darks range I'm giving it to number four the reason I bought a 240 Hertz monitor not for color not for brightness it's for information getting inside my my eye holes I mean even when I was gaming it with a 120 Hertz monitor never felt like the input lag was what I was missing it was the clarity kind of feel like Lois motion blur and Lois then put like kind of too similar for me to tell I don't know they're all so close if I had to guess I'd say one one like both tied and maybe these two are a little bit behind but it wouldn't be by much you know one thing that might make this a little easier is this cheating this one somehow feels more responsive I'm surprised I thought I wouldn't be able to tell maybe it's just as bigger so it feels like things are moving faster wow I can't believe I didn't even notice - I was so busy just completely focusing on like what the pixels look like I missed that these two are 27 inches in these two or 24 inch displays yeah I felt three was faster or something it might just be some motion smoothing or or some kind of interpolation that I don't know what it was but I'm gonna give it the edge it's not my job to explain these things it's everyone else's and now Lois motion blur I don't know if it's just the brightness being so different but that one feels smoother I'm gonna have to rank this one that one and then this one so far so three one two four lowest motion blur for motion blur number three is definitely the worst but it surprises me how close my one IPS over here is to my two TNS over here this first one is so much more contrast II that I feel like because of the high contrast I'm able to kind of tell the information even in motion a little bit better and so I don't know if it's actually clear if it just has the perception of being clearer thanks to its higher contrast but I think I'm gonna give the edge to the first one I'm gonna go in order one two three four so which monitor would I buy that is a really hard one for me to choose I feel like performance wise like in game I would be better off with number one maybe number two but number four number four just looks a lot better in almost every aspect that it's bigger the color is better it's still pretty fast feeling but oh I feel like if I want to win at games again I kind of want to go with number one I take number three it keeps more detail in the actual concentric circles that exist in this little mini map here compared to this one and it doesn't lose any of the highlights it's got more true-to-life looking colors right out of the box but it's motion blur is not the best but I'm not the most competitive gamer so that's why I would take this one bigger looks better if the colors on this one weren't so bad I would give it number two but it's gonna sit in three I'm gonna give two to the other IPS display I do like the size size matters to me and number four is gonna be this one my overall preference is definitely the first one it's the brightest that's got the best color the viewing ailes weren't great but as someone who's playing shooters competitively online like I don't need someone to be able to see from far angles I'm looking straight on I prefer 24 inches for competitive gaming you want to be like right up in there and 27 is actually a little bit big like most competitive shooters use 24 inch monitors as preference I'm gonna price them by my preference I'm gonna say the two 27 inches are 500 and 550 and I'm going to say I like this one better I think that's the more premium one and then these two this is easily a better gaming experience it's just so much brighter I'm gonna go 400 345 final answer pencils down I'd be surprised if the 27-inch ones were cheaper than the 24-inch one so I guess might as well start at the highest ones I would price the third monitor at 550 I think this is probably the cheapest and then this one a bit more than number two this one that was a few what this one this one this one this one I guess I'm just surprised that this is more expensive because it's a TN panel how much is it 550 sometimes 500 it's also the oldest one well this is a cascading domino effect of wrongness now I thought I was gonna be revealed to be a and I kind of am but to the level that I thought I was even though I got the pricing wrong based on what has the most value to me I can definitely see the value of this one for a certain type of customer and now that I know the difference between these is a hundred rather than $50 it becomes a much less clear-cut decision even though I still do give the nod to this one both empirically and in terms of my my overall feel and Rebecca okay so the guys didn't exactly agree on everything but there were some common trends basically everyone agreed that the TN panels had the least motion blur and input delay with the algae coming in third to validate their experiences we set up a pursuit camera which helps visualize motion blur but with the element of human perception taken out of the equation you can see that the ASIS and the BenQ are way more clear just look at the aliens eyes and the white dots on the ship however both of these monitors are using backlight strobing to get that result here's what the ASIS looks like with ALM be turned off while the LG apparently doesn't have such a feature at all the participants also generally agreed that the IPS panels the LG and Acer had superior viewing angles color accuracy and brightness although the Ben Cube did pretty well here too according to David and again our test this time with calman colorchecker agreed except the Ben Q is actually the least accurate sorry which basically gives us two competing recommendations depending on you and your priorities if you're buying a 240 Hertz monitor purely for motion performance just to click heads then the Ben Q's we excel 2546 is still the reigning champ but if you also use your monitor for watching videos and movies or playing sightseeing games then the bigger more color accurate IPS models are more well-rounded but then there's price at 20 percent cheaper than the BenQ or the Acer the 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Channel: Linus Tech Tips

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Keywords: gaming, monitor, 144, 240, Hz, high, refresh, rate, eSports, benq, zowie, ultragear, LG, acer, nitro, ASUS, ROG, Strix, XL2546, 28GN750, XV273X, XG248Q

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Length: 13min 27sec (807 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 15 2020

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