LG 38UC99-W vs Acer Predator XB271HU abmiprz

Impressive amount of on-screen real estate, excellent picture quality, exceptional connectivity, and great color accuracy puts the LG 38UC99-W above nearly all competitors in the market.

You can charge your laptop and have display output through a single cable thanks to the monitor's USB-C port.

You can access all the general features of this monitor using your mouse and a keyboard thanks to the LG’s On-Screen Control software.

Additionally, the On-Screen Control offers many screen split presets.

Having enough display real-estate to fit three vertically aligned Google Docs windows comfortably, the LG 38UC99-W is an excellent tool to boost up the productivity in everyday office duties, CAD/CAM applications, and many other fields.

Acing the near-cinematic aspect ratio of 21:9, the LG 38UC99-W is an excellent companion to watch movies because you won't see the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen when watching most movies.

The LG 38UC99-W features a built-in 20 Watt stereo speaker system which sounds fairly well compared to the 4-10 W speakers the competitors at this price point offer.

This monitor beats most of its premium competitors in terms of connectivity because it features a USB-C downstream port which has multiple parallel functions. First, you can use it to access the monitor's onboard USB hub. Second, it can be used for charging a USB type C compliant laptop. Finally, you can use it to receive video and audio signal from a computer.

Additionally, the LG 38UC99-W has two HDMI ports, a DisplayPort, and an inbuilt Bluetooth module.

You can connect this monitor to two computers so that each machine use half of the on-screen area. This might come in handy for those who frequently use a stationary desktop computer and a laptop.

Only the best monitors can match the LG 38UC99-W's contrast ratio, peak brightness, gamma, and color accuracy, as the monitor features one of the finest IPS panels in the industry.

The LG 38UC99-W displays beautiful pictures, with deep and rich blacks, vibrant and accurate colors, and good-looking intermediate tones. Despite the fact that the monitor's native contrast ratio is only 1000:1, the dark scenes look deep and intense as the backlight of the 38UC99-W can drop below the brightness level of 0.15 nits, which only the best monitors can do. Colors pop and look vivid, as the 38UC99-W can sustain its brightness above the 300 nits mark. The mid-tones look lifelike thanks to the monitor's near perfect gamma value, which is only 1.3% off from the ideal value.

Moreover, the monitor's color inaccuracies can't be seen by the human eye because it only has an average color error dE of 2.12.

G-Sync eliminates stutter and screen tearing because it allows your monitor to synchronize its refresh rate to match the framerate of your video card.

The Acer XB271HU supports G-Sync in the 20-165 Hz range.

The Acer XB271HU doesn’t flicker because it uses a DC signal to dim its backlight. Such approach is beneficial as monitor flickering can cause eye strain.

Adjusting the monitor to get the best possible viewing angle is not a problem with the Acer XB271HU.

The monitor offers lag-free gaming experience because of its fantastically low input lag of 4.6 ms, which makes it one of the most responsive gaming monitors in this price range.

Monitor's input lag is a delay between your video card producing a frame and the fame being fully processed by the monitor.

The Acer XB271HU has one of the best motion control toolsets in its price range, as it manages to display clear and flawless motion without even the slightest trace of motion blur or ghosting thanks to its excellent pixel response time, full ULBM support, and high native refresh rate.

The monitor naturally eliminates motion blur because its pixels need only one millisecond to change their color as the panel's full pixel response time is only 1 ms. Such rapid pixel transition keeps on-screen objects from leaving traces.

Acer's ULMB feature eliminates the artificial effect of ghosting as it strobes the monitor's backlight and makes it behave like a CRT display.

The motion looks smooth and fluid thanks to the monitor's high refresh rate of 165 Hz, which allows it to update its image up to 165 times every second.

The Acer XB271HU offers decent overall picture quality for a gaming monitor at this price point because its brightness, contrast ratio, and gamma response are all on par with what its competitors offer.

The Acer XB271HU displays adequately-looking images, with mediocre blacks, saturated mid-tones, and bright and vibrant colors. The dark scenes look average, with blacks that are neither too flat, nor too deep, because the monitor's contrast ratio is limited to 1000:1. Intermediate tones appear life-like, thanks to the monitors near-ideal gamma of 2.19. Colors look vivid as the monitor's panel can get quite luminous with its brightness peaking at 350 nits.

Additionally, the XB271HU can reproduce more saturated and sharper images than the 1080p competitors of the same size because it features 42% higher pixel density than a regular 27-inch FHD panel.

Armed with a 165 Hz TN panel, the Acer XB271HU offers decent overall picture quality and exceptionally responsive gaming experience, totally free of display lag or motion handling problems, which makes this monitor one of the best choices for gamers in this price range.

Priced below $500, the Acer XB271HU offers a massive 27-inch QHD panel, full ULMB support, and G-Sync. You'll be hard-pressed to find a matching competitor for this monitor in this price range.

You can use this monitor to charge external peripheral devices or connect them to your computer because the monitor has a USB 3.0 hub, which consists of four downstream USB ports and a single upstream port.