This monitor's ultrawide screen has advantages for all uses. When it comes to movie watching or gaming, the screen size contributes to a truly engaging experience. As far as general productivity goes, the ultrawide screen makes it easy to have different applications or documents open side by side.
The 2560x1080 resolution creates an immersive setup. This applies even for work tasks: multiple documents can be displayed side-by-side with no legibility sacrifice. It's equivalent to having two monitors with 1280x1080 screens.
The fact that a monitor of this price range has a 5M:1 contrast ratio is simply astonishing. This means users get cinema-like picture quality right at their desk.
The 21:9 aspect ratio comes in handy when watching movies. This is the default aspect ratio at which almost all of the films are shot. Hence, you can watch your movies without having two black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.
A response time of 5 ms on a gaming monitor is pretty awful. Considering its refresh rate, it is understandable but not acceptable. Note that this response time is from gray-to-gray.
This monitor has two HMDI ports, which is pretty good. However, it misses other display inputs such as DVI or Display Port, making incompatible with older computers.
A handful of games do not support 21:9 aspect ratio by default. Some examples are Overwatch, Fallout 3, and Starcraft 2. If this is important for you, it is recommended you test this issue before getting this monitor. But there are solutions: you can either install fixes (only available for some games) or play in windowed mode, using a different aspect ratio.
This monitor's aspect ratio means that many online videos, such as those from Netflix or YouTube, will have black spaces on the sides, which can be annoying.
The overall picture quality of this monitor is fantastic thanks to the high-resolution IPS panel it runs. The Lenovo P24H displays beautiful images that have crisp and vivid colors as well as some pretty inky blacks.
The G2460PF can cover the vast majority of the sRGB coverage, with only a very small part of sRGB that remains unrepresented. However, this display performs a lot better than the sRGB color space in the green corner of RGB-color system, which results in a bit more vibrant images.
The G2460PF features an anti-glare panel, which significantly reduces or eliminates reflections, loss of clarity due to light, fingerprints and smudges.
The input lag or latency from computer is also extremely low. A small testing tool has measured the maximum input lag at 3.66 ms, which is extremely low. For comparison: that's just 3/4 of a single frame in 144 Hz.
This display features a very fast refresh rate of 144Hz, or 144 times per second. This allows for extremely fluent gameplay and is a major improvement over regular 60Hz displays.
With a response time of just 1ms, the AOC G2260VWQ6 is one of the fastest monitors on the market. Ideal for fast-paced gaming situations such as first person shooters.
The standard factory default preset of the display is quite bright, but images on the screen looked washed out and lack depth - especially towards the bottom of the screen due to the mediocre viewing angles. Another preset which reduces the central gamma average lacks depth and looks unnatural. Calibration in needed to get the achieve the best results, as the standard monitor profiles aren't great.
When viewing the screen in a fairly dark room, some backlight bleeding might be visible towards the bottom of the display. Backlight bleeding occurs when the panel can't block 100% of the light produced by the backlight, resulting in spots of lighter areas.
The monitor uses a TN-panel which has the characteristic of having mediocre viewing angles compared to IPS-panels. Some color shifting occurs when viewing the monitor at a vertical angle.
Overshoot, sometimes also referred to as inverse ghosting, occurs when artifacts are displayed on the screen and overlaps of color values. The overshoot on this display is mainly noticeable at lower refresh rates - even when using AMD's FreeSync.
With a response time of just 1ms, the Acer GN246HL is one of the fastest monitors on the market. Ideal for fast-paced gaming situations such as first person shooters.
The Acer GN246HL features a very fast refresh rate of 144Hz (144 times per second). This allows for extremely fluent gameplay and is a major improvement over regular 60Hz displays.
The monitor does not have a DisplayPort connection, which means some of DisplayPort's advantages over other connection types such as adaptive scaling can't be used.
This monitor's contrast ratio makes it capable of a very vibrant and natural color reproduction. It comes with presets optimized for several use cases, such as gaming, movies, or text editing.
Dual speakers located at the back of the monitor offer a decent-quality stereo sound output. There's also an audio jack for headphone/external speakers use.
With a screen size of 27", a good resolution would be expected. Sadly, this is not the case. When this monitor was launched, 4K still wasn't popular. It's not a great device for playing 1080p videos, but if you're not going to give it this kind of use, this resolution shouldn't be a big issue.
This monitor is missing a DVI-D port, which can be circumvented by using a HMDI to DVI converter. Precisely because of this, ASUS ships the monitor with such an adapter.