AOC Debuts World's First 1,000 Hz Gaming Monitor

If you want the world’s fastest gaming monitor, AOC may well have made it. The new 27-inch QHD monitor can do 500 Hz at 1440, or up to 1,000 Hz at 1080p, making it the monitor with the highest refresh rate in the world. Typically the best gaming monitors use OLED technology as its input lag and response time are almost non-existent. If this monitor uses OLED, it will be the undisputed king of high-speed gaming. If it’s something more traditional, even Super-TN style, it will still be super fast, but not quite the fastest.
The race for ever faster gaming monitor refresh rates has been ongoing for several years now. Although it is advisable for all gamers to use some form of 120Hz or higher gaming monitor, only professionals or esport players that take their games very seriously really need to consider anything over 240 Hz. It’s just not visible, and the return on investment is in the order of single milliseconds, or even less.
Still, that hasn’t stopped companies pushing the envelope. Samsung’s latest top-tier OLED displays go up to 500 Hz, and we’ve seen some designs in the 700 Hz region. AOC’s new designs are the first to ever crest 1,000 Hz, though.
Also joining the new range leaked to ITHome (via VideoCardz), AOC has a new 5K 165Hz display that can also do 330 Hz in 1440p mode, a 27-inch 160 Hz monitor that has built in AI that can adjust picture quality on the fly, a 420 Hz QHD model with circular polarization, a 360 Hz QHD model that can deliver a “1,000 Hz effect,” though won’t actually work at such refresh rates, and a new 24-inch TN panel running at 400 Hz.
It’s an intriguing lineup of displays and shows super fast monitors are the new norm. But 1,000 Hz? I’m not convinced it will do much of anything. Especially if it’s not OLED.
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