Nvidia’s quest for the ultimate 4K HDR gaming monitor

Nvidia’s quest for the ultimate 4K HDR gaming monitor

By Kevin Lee

The first two Nvidia G-Sync HDR monitors, the Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ and Acer Predator X27, are bar none the best two looking gaming monitors currently on the market.

But what is an Nvidia G-Sync HDR monitor anyway?

Don’t think that Nvidia just found any old high-dynamic range (HDR) display, threw in a G-Sync module and called it a day. Nope, rather Nvidia’s Product Management Leader for Nvidia G-Sync Vijay Sharma tells us it took an extensive two years of product development working closely with both companies.

We caught up with Sharma while we were in Tapei for Computex 2018, and he essentially broke down the product development cycle into three parts.

First Nvidia works with panel manufacturers to come up with a product that has the right refresh rate, flicker properties, response time, visual quality and so on. Once a display panel is selected, Nvidia moves to display development with the OEM to actually build the display while it helps with panel tuning and on-screen display (OSD, or the menus you navigate on your monitor) development.

In the final leg of product development, Nvidia gets the finished monitor in to put it through display certification tests to check for quality, …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components

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