Acer Predator XB271HU abmiprz vs Dell Ultrasharp U2415

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.

The Dell U2415 is an excellent solution for those who use display daisy chaining since it has a dedicated DisplayPort Out.

The monitor’s integrated USB hub consists of four downstream USB 3.0 ports that you can use to charge peripheral USB devices or connect them to your computer. The single upstream port offers high data transfer rate typical of USB 3.0.

While other gaming monitors tend to look overly aggressive, the Dell U2415 looks somewhat professional because of its clean and simple design that allows the monitor to blend in almost any working environment.

The Dell U2415 was tested to be free of image burn-in problems that are common among monitors in this price range.

The Dell U2415 does an excellent job even when used in portrait mode because of its superb vertical viewing angles that are superior to what the overwhelming majority of competitors in this price range offer. When used in portrait mode, the monitor’s colors and shadows start to shift only when the viewing angle becomes greater than 25 degrees.

Setting the monitor according to your workspace needs is simple because the stand supports all the key ergonomic adjustments, including height, tilt, pivot, and swivel.

Additionally, you can mount the Dell U2415 on a VESA 100x100 compliant monitor stand.

Out of the box, the Dell U2415 displays 99% of the sRGB colors, which is an extremely rare feature for a monitor in this price range.

The Dell U2415 doesn’t put additional strain on your eyes since its backlight doesn’t flicker. Monitor flickering can cause severe eye fatigue over extensive use.

The Dell U2415 is an excellent companion for those enjoying a casual round of CS: GO or LOL in between working hours because the monitor offers reasonably high responsiveness and well-handled motion.

It's works good even while playing fast FPS games as the monitor’s input lag of 9.1 ms is barely noticeable by most players.

Furthermore, the Dell U2415 makes motion appear free from artificial motion blur thanks to its full pixel response time of 6 milliseconds which allows each pixel of the Dell U2415 to change their color within only six milliseconds.

The Dell U2415 does a great job in bright rooms, where its 275 nits of peak brightness and light matte screen finish diffuse reflections and fights glare efficiently.

The Dell U2415 is an excellent tool for the photography professionals who work in the sRGB color space. Not only does it support the entire palette of sRGB colors, it also can display those colors with high accuracy since it’s average color error dE is measured at only 0.45. Even the highest-class media professionals will not be capable of perceiving such minor color error.

The Dell U2415 is among the best monitors in the sub-$200 range since its native contrast ratio, peak brightness, gamma and color accuracy are on par with what the best monitors in this price range offer.

It displays beautiful images with rich and well-balanced blacks, accurate colors, and realistic intermediate tones that gives the picture some extra intensity. Dark scenes look deep as the monitor’s high-quality IPS panel offers a native contrast ratio of 1064:1, which combined with the monitor's overall color uniformity gives its blacks a good push towards high-intensity levels. Colors pop and look beautiful thanks to the monitor’s high peak brightness of 275 nits, which combined with the panel’s low average color inaccuracy allows the Dell U2415 to display crisp and life-like colors. The monitor’s mid-tones look realistic as its gamma response is only 1% away from its perfect value.

Moreover, the monitor’s average color inaccuracy dE of 0.45 ensures that only professional photosensors can spot its color inconsistencies as those are very minor.

The Dell U2415 offers exceptional color accuracy, high adjustability, decent responsiveness, and high resolution which, combined with its good overall picture quality makes it one of the best monitors in this price range.

The Dell U2415 has 11% more pixels than a regular FHD monitor which will come in handy when working with large, high-resolution photos.