This is the monitor with the highest refresh rate in history: 500 Hz

On By Garmin Philip

If you’ve recently bought a 144 or 240Hz monitor, we’re sorry to give you some bad news: it’s outdated. The newer ones reach 500 Hz…

Until just 2 or 3 years ago, a refresh rate of 60 or 120 Hz on a monitor or television, was considered sufficient both for playing video games and for everyday tasks of viewing video, applications, movies, television programs, etc.

But then the “boom” of multiplayer games. Los Fortnite, Call of Duty and company, which benefit from a higher refresh rate, by reducing latency and response time.

Monitors with 144, 240, 300 Hz began to appear… and things have gotten out of hand. BOE presented on Friday the first monitor with a refresh rate of 500 Hz.

BOE is a panel manufacturer which has been supplying screens to a large number of brands for some time. It has even been rumored that it will supply Apple with OLED screens for its iPads.

It is one of the leading companies in oxide semiconductor panels, which you have used in this new monitor a 500 Hz.

As explained in the press release: “The oxide semiconductor display technology has the advantages of high mobility, low turn-off current, simple process technology and large size, which can meet the dual needs of improving product quality in the future and reduce energy consumption“.

That is, these semiconductors They allow you to increase the refresh rate, without increasing consumption too much.

The monitor that BOE has shown has a 27 inch size, with 1080p resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels) and an image that is renewed 500 times per second.

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The problem is that we have reached a point where technology already exceeds the capacity of our own sight.

Many people they don’t appreciate the differences between a 4K and an 8K TV, and while a pro gamer might notice the higher refresh rate at 240 or 300 Hz, it’s hard to see much of a difference at 500 Hz.

Also is true that the higher the refresh rate, the less the eyes are tired, but we are also not clear if these improvements are very noticeable from 120 Hz.

And we will also have to add the higher price and consumption.

But let’s not judge before time. We look forward to these new monitors at 500 Hz, to see what they can offer.

Reference-computerhoy.com