When using these crazy high refresh monitors, what FPS do you need to achieve to take advtage of it? Say you're getting 60 to 70FPS on Cyberpunk, would you notice difference on smoothness between a 144 Hz and 360 Hz screen?
The only guys crazy enough to really care about refresh rates above 240fps and implications for motion smoothness are esports guys.
How does it compare to Dyac?
My gut tells me the hardcore eSports players are gonna stick with BenQ because of DyAc's unique advantage. Because even if this Alienware supports a backlight strobing "ultra low motion blur" mode, you're never going to turn it on. In the past Alienwares just utilized NVIDIA's ULMB technology. Of course, as you know, this halves the brightness, and with a peak enduring brightness of just 250 nits, which really isn't that bright, it would be way too dark to be practical. These OLED monitors are leaning on the incredible contrast ratio of OLED to carry the lower brightness output in daylight settings. Even in the dark 125nits is unplayable.
But I'd really like one of the major tech outlets to do a deep dive because there are unanswered questions in this space about how the theory shakes out.
BenQ needs to stop resting on their laurels. They haven't really improved anything in three years since the XL2546K released. Unlike the advantage over IPS, TN panels aren't appreciably more responsive than OLED. Meanwhile, frame outputs in the most competitive games have gotten so high with the latest hardware that a 1080p doesn't seem theoretically justified, anymore, even with the argument about unlimited frames. Freesync and Gsync eliminate tearing completely all the way up to 500 fps with a penalty of just a few ms, now, even if many would opt not to turn it on because they believe it unnecessary at framerates that high.
I think Alienware might be outdoing them. The IPS panels offer the alternative of superior brightness, higher fps, and native VRR support at the sacrifice of just 1-2 ms response time. The OLED panels offer better detail, color, contrast, equal or higher fps,
*faster response times, and just a bit lower brightness. These things matter in the real world to what the eye discerns in those tiny corners of the screen that separate a hit from a miss.
*Correction: OLED are faster, not just equal, to even TN panels
