Introduction and design
Hot on the heels of one Asus gaming display that we’ve recently tested, the superbly priced Asus MG248Q, comes another closely related gaming monitor, the ROG Swift PG248Q.
It bears a number of similarities: it’s a 24-inch screen with a native 1080p resolution and a twisted nematic (TN) panel capable of 1ms response times. It looks almost identical, the feature set is closely linked, and the overall dimensions are just about the same.
TN screens are generally cheaper than IPS, and the picture quality is slightly worse, due to narrower viewing angles. This is true of any TN panel, and is the same for both the MG248Q and the ROG Swift PG248Q.
But a crucial difference is that, while the MG248Q offers Adaptive Sync technology, which eliminates the ‘tearing’ effect in 3D games to make animation look a whole lot smoother, the PG248Q features Nvidia’s equivalent G-Sync technology. G-Sync only works with GeForce graphics cards, while Adaptive Sync works with both AMD and Intel graphics cards.
That affects a few more aspects of the Asus ROG Swift PG248Q. The G-Sync ‘module’ costs a lot more to integrate into a display than an Adaptive Sync …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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