There is a budding marketplace for tiny 1440p gaming displays. Not less than that is what I am informed. AOC simply introduced it is bringing one such tiny 23.8-inch 1440p display screen to market in Europe, the Q24G2A/BK, and the reason is there’s surprisingly demand for such a factor.
You may go too far with decision and display screen dimension. There are extremes. A 4K panel on a 55-inch panel is absurd for a desktop PC gamer, because the pixel density would not be excessive sufficient to look nice up-close. On a TV, a long way away, it is a totally different story. The identical goes for a extremely small 4K monitor, which, whereas trying very sharp, can be a little bit of a waste of the graphics card energy required to drive that form of pixel rely.
You’d suppose the identical factor a couple of sub-24-inch 1440p monitor. At that time simply purchase a 1080p panel and run it at a a lot sooner refresh price, or purchase an even bigger display screen. However no, AOC tells me there is a marketplace for that form of excessive pixel density display screen particularly constructed for gaming, and so they’re not solely new to the scene.
The pre-existing marketplace for this form of factor has principally been in Asia—AOC says it has been promoting “hundreds of those” in China—but it surely additionally believes there’s sufficient curiosity to carry its AOC Q24G2A/BK display screen to Europe too.
I haven’t got the specifics handy relating to the North American market, however a cursory Google search would recommend it is probably not landed within the States or Canada, both.
The display screen makes use of a 23.8-inch IPS panel with a 1440p decision, making for a decent pixel density of 123 PPI. For the file, a 27-inch 1440p panel sits round 108 PPI, so this compact display screen is significantly sharper. It is designed for gaming, so it comes with a 165Hz refresh price, however it’s a little sluggish on the response time at 4ms GtG. It is G-Sync Appropriate and delivers Adaptive Sync, not less than.
In Europe, this monitor will set you again €249, which implies it is positively up there with the price of a bigger 1440p gaming monitor. And it ought to go on sale imminently.
Yeah, this can be a area of interest product for a really specific kind of gamer that likes to get their eyeballs as near the motion as they presumably can. To these of you on the market with such very particular wants, I salute you.