Samsung announced in a press release that the first OLED panel for notebooks with a refresh rate of up to 90 Hz will offer. Joo Sun Choi, Display Chief Executive Officer at Samsung, announced that already in March very large numbers of items 14 – inch panels with 90 Hz should be available. This speaks primarily for use in ultrabooks, but Samsung also speaks of use in gaming in this context.
The resolution of the panels was not revealed. The maximum brightness and the aspect ratio are not yet known. Samsung assures, however, that the performance of the new OLED panel corresponds to that of a 120 Hz fast LCDs and comparable motion blur as well Response time.
Notebooks with OLED displays are already available on the market, but so far the maximum frame rate has usually been 60 Hz. This makes the currently available models rather unsuitable for gamers, although the gaming experience is undoubtedly due to the high Contrasts and almost perfect black levels would benefit.
It remains to be seen when the first manufacturers of gaming notebooks will make use of the new OLED panels and whether they will keep what Samsung promises.
OLED panels for laptops have been around for a while now but they came with a number of trade-offs. Notebooks launched with OLED screens suffered from high power consumption and ghosting issues. However, Samsung promises it has resolved those and is now mass producing 90Hz OLEDs for laptops.
The “large quantity” of OLED displays will be adopted by multiple notebook manufacturers and they would offer 10x better response time than other OLEDs and are on par with their 120Hz LCD counterparts. The panels are said to be 14″ but resolution and aspect ratios aren’t mentioned.
Given the size and the fact that they cap at 90Hz, we suspect they will end up in standard business or commercial laptops and not gaming ones. We will know for sure soon as Samsung says announcement are close.
Each of us has our favorite or hated companies. This applies to every aspect of our lives – food, clothes, games, cars, computer components and consumer electronics. In each of these market branches, however, there are companies that have been present in stores for many years and it is difficult not to associate them. In the case of smartphones, one of such entities is cheebol in the form of LG, which offers devices from various price and performance segments. However, according to the latest information, we can say goodbye to Korean phones soon. After years of losing out in this segment, Asians are considering options, one of which is to exit the phone market altogether.
The Polish branch of LG denies the reported reports, while the foreign branch of LG confirms them. So the situation is still unclear.
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As reported by the Korean newspaper The Korea Herald, Kwon Bong-seok (LG CEO) sent an internal message to employees on Wednesday, including that “As competition in the global mobile device market becomes increasingly sharper, it is time for LG to take a cool judgment and make the best choice. “and” The company is considering all possible measures, including selling or reducing the smartphone division or withdrawing completely from this market. “At the same time, the CEO stressed that” Regardless of changes in the smartphone business, employment will be maintained, so there is no need to worry. “And it is hard not to believe these assurances, considering the size of the Korean company and how many different things it produces.
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The reason for the changes in the company’s smartphone division is the fact that the total loss of LG Electronics over the last five years is around 5 000 000 000 000 Korean won (~ 4 544 425 500 dollars). Although the situation in the third quarter 2020 was much better than in the first and second quarter, it is still not colorful. The speech was about operational loss “only” 148, 4 billion won, decreasing from consecutive 206 and 237, 8 billion won (Q2 and Q3 2020). LG confirmed in an interview with the foreign portal The Verge that such a message had actually been sent, although the company has not yet made any final decision. On the other hand, LG Polska completely denied these reports in an interview with us. We must admit, however, that similar rumors were already appearing earlier this month.
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Well, there is nothing else but to wait for the situation to develop further. In my opinion, the lack of LG on the smartphone market would be a noticeable loss. This is one of the few companies that should be valued for originality. For example LG G4 from 2015 of the year with leather backs; the newer LG Wing with two screens and a built-in gimbal or the futuristic LG Rollable with a sliding screen announced for this year. What’s more, Koreans have always offered good DACs and cameras in their flagships, without removing useful solutions such as a jack socket or a memory card space like Samsung or Apple. A lot of positive things were also heard about specific Nexus / Pixel models, which were just made on behalf of the Americans by Koreans.
Samsung has developed a panel OLED from 14 inches and refresh rate at 90 Hz intended for notebooks. Volume production will start in March.
by Manolo De Agostini published 21 January 2021 , at 10: 21 in the Portable channel Samsung
Samsung Display announced the start in March of the volume production of an OLED panel a 90 Hz intended for notebooks . The new solution from 14 inches , according to Samsung Display CEO Joo Sun Choi, “can best meet the diverse needs of consumers in laptops used in telecommuting, online education, video streaming and games “.
South Korean manufacturer believes new panel will be welcomed by consumers thanks to images with better contrast and color, together with a better response time which should ensure a motion blur comparable to that obtained with an LCD screen at 120 Hz when viewing content at high speed.
Samsung has not provided further technical details (aspec ratio, gamut, etc.) nor indicated any OEM ready to adopt the panel in question. OLED displays are not a total novelty in the laptop industry, but they are certainly not common. Some models offer an OLED panel as an option, but these are 60 Hz solutions. Samsung itself, l ‘last year, it presented a Galaxy Chromebook with an OLED display, while this year it turned to a cheaper QLED.
However, it should not be forgotten that in recent days the Asian company has anticipated the arrival of a future notebook with OLED screen and webcam “under” the display, a novelty able to eliminate as much as possible the frames to the advantage of a larger viewing area and a better design.
We recently watched a Samsung video in which we could see the company’s new OLED screen technology for laptops, showing some extremely thin and light panels that will allow laptops with Samsung OLED screens to be even thinner.
However, at that time We did not really have much information, something that is updated today through the CFO of Samsung, Joo Sun Choi, who has indicated that the company will manufacture large quantities of OLED panels of 14 inches and 90 Hz, starting this March.
In this way, it is expected that several companies will launch devices with a screen OLED of 14 inches with these panels, which, among other advantages, will provide us with better colors, greater visibility in certain conditions, deep blacks and lower consumption , all very interesting especially if we need to use the equipment several hours a day, where a High-quality display can make all the difference between a satisfactory user experience or a terrible one.
Additionally, it has been calculated that the ghosting performance is on par with an LCD screen of 120 Hz, so that with a trace of 0.9mm in the tests carried out, we find a very versatile screen.
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Samsung Display has announced plans to mass-produce the world’s first 90Hz OLED screens designed for laptops and says that “several global IT companies” are expected to release models with the new panels this year. Manufacturing will begin in March in “very large quantities,” the company says in a statement attributed to CEO Choi Joo-sun.
The panels are 14-inch in size, though Samsung Display hasn’t given details on specs like aspect ratio or resolution; it’s possible that there will be multiple versions available. Samsung does cite the faster response time of its OLED panels, claiming “practically” the same amount of blurring as a 120Hz LCD when displaying fast-moving content. No potential laptop OEM partners were named in the statement.
OLED displays aren’t unheard of in laptops, but they’re not at all commonplace. While quite a few gaming laptops offer them as an option, the tradeoff there is that you’ve had to give up on high refresh rates. And despite Samsung itself launching an OLED-equipped Galaxy Chromebook last year, the 2021 followup uses a cheaper QLED-branded LCD display instead.
Samsung is the world’s biggest vendor of OLED display panels, so the announcement today suggests that OLED laptops are likely to become much more of a common sight this year.
The new iPad Pro models appear to remain unchanged in appearance due to leaks, but the iPad Mini 6 is expected to be significantly redesigned.
Apple, as usual, is expected to release new iPad models at its events this year. In 2021 Apple introduced both its revamped iPad Pro collection and 10, a 2-inch iPad and the new more angular iPad Air. New iPad Pro models and the iPad Mini 6 with a redesigned design would be expected this year in light of the leaks.
iPad Pro 12 9 (2021) iPad Pro 11 (2021)
Based on the leaks and rumors, the iPad Pro models seem to follow a familiar line, looking similar to the Pro series already released in 2018. The LiDAR sensor, introduced last year to support two rear cameras, would still appear to be included in the equipment, as well as the familiar magnetic mounts for pen and keyboard, as well as the USB Type-C connection.
There is still no certainty about the pulsating system circuit inside the leaks. In addition to the latest smartphone circuitry, A derivative of the new iPad Pro models could be expected to be based on. iPad Pro 01 However, in the case of 9, rumors are talking about a possible screen upgrade to the OLED panel, which would be quite a significant change from previously used IPS panels. There have been no similar leaks or rumors about the iPad Pro models, with the exception of their size, have remained largely technically equivalent
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In addition to the iPad Pro models, the redesigned iPad Mini 6 would also be coming this year, according to the leaks. This is the first major visual upgrade in the entire Mini Series lifecycle. The iPad Mini 6 would appear to shrink the edges of the screen, making them clearly thinner than their predecessor models, similar to the Pro series in the past and the iPad Air last year. Despite the smaller edges of the screen, the external dimensions are believed to remain unchanged and instead the screen is said to have grown to 9, 14.
In appearance, the new iPad Mini does little to resemble its sibling models, but is clearly unique. The structure, like other new Apple models, has not moved to an angular design, but instead has remained in the familiar rounded body. As the screen grows and the edges shrink, Apple is also said to be moving to use a front camera located in a hole in the center of the top of the screen. The traditional home button and the integrated fingerprint reader have also been abandoned. However, the fingerprint reader is still found in the repertoire and, according to leaks, is placed under the screen (in renderings, it is a visible hole in the screen, probably to clarify the location). Both of the above solutions would be Apple’s first time on any of its devices.
Regarding feature coverage, rumors have appeared in the Apple iPhone 11 collection of the familiar A 14 Bionic system circuit, but usually included in the mini-series of the cheaper end of the Apple tablet series also in the previous year’s A 13 may be a possible option.
There are no more specific leaks from the release of the new iPad Pro models yet, but it is expected to happen as usual at Apple’s WWDC trade fair, which is usually held in early summer (May-June). The launch of the revamped iPad Mini is rumored to take place in March.
(Pocket-lint) – Panasonic has announced its first new TV for 2021 – the Panasonic JZ2000 OLED TV.
However, it won’t be available until early summer, so you might want to snap up a bargain on 2020’s models instead. They are still available and often at a discount.
Here then are the Panasonic TV highlights for 2021, including some of the excellent sets already available through numerous retailers.
One thing to note on model numbering if you’re browsing Panasonic TVs: J equals 2021, H equals 2020, G equals 2019 and so on – something to watch out for when you come to buy. Also, model numbers can change depending on region, the TV tends to be the same but the number might be slightly different, so that’s also something to take into account.
The flagship OLED TV for 2021 was announced during the all-digital CES 2021, so we haven’t managed to get our hands on one yet.
However, it is confirmed to come with the same top-end Master HDR OLED Professional Edition panel as 2020’s HZ2000 (below), yet with HDR10+ Adaptive added for good measure.
Like Dolby Vision IQ, this is a HDR technology that not only changes the colour signature depending on each scene, it takes into account your ambient lighting to present colours and contrast in exactly the format the director intended.
The JZ2000 also embraces gaming with more vigour than ever before, with 4K 120Hz support over HDMI 2.1 and variable refresh rate (VRR) technology on board.
Until the JZ2000 becomes available this summer, the HZ2000 is the flagship OLED TV in Panasonic’s range.
Like the latest model, the 2020 stunner supports Filmmaker Mode to present movies as their directors intended, and Dolby Vision IQ, which adjusts the HDR picture settings automatically, depending on the viewing conditions.
The set is also built around Panasonic’s Master HDR OLED Professional Edition panel. That effectively means it is capable of high peak brightness, while retaining the deep black levels OLED tech is well known for.
Audio also gets a big boost at this end of the range, with 360-degree Soundscape Pro surround built into the set itself. This includes five speaker units with two upfiring speakers at the top to give you the extra height channels for Dolby Atmos soundtracks.
One step down from the HZ2000 and you still get highly impressive specs in this 2020 set, including Filmmaker Mode, Dolby Vision IQ and the proprietary HCX Pro Intelligent processor.
The panel is slightly different – the Master HDR OLED rather than Pro Edition – and the audio is a little less bombastic. However, you still get upward firing speakers built into the top of the TV for Dolby Atmos height channels, plus front-firing speakers and a central subwoofer at viewer height for some incredible, immersive sound.
In all other respects, this is as near to the flagship model as you like. With Alexa and Google Assistant support thrown in for good measure.
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The HZ1000 retains the Master HDR OLED panel of the HZ1500 but drops the audio to a regular sound system.
You still get the Filmmaker Mode with a dedicated button on the remote that will put your screen into industry-selected picture settings that best suit movie content, while Dolby Vision IQ choose the best images depending on the ambience and light in your viewing room.
The base also features a swivel design, so you can move it to be face-on to multiple viewing positions. But, as its OLED it’ll also have super wide viewing angles anyway.
Panasonic LED TVs
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Panasonic HX940
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Screen sizes: 75in, 65in, 43in
LED, 3840 x 2160 pixels, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, Dolby Atmos
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The current top-end LED TV in Panasonic’s lineup is the HX940 – at least until the J-series sets are announced later this year. It comes with a 100Hz panel and HCX Pro Intelligent processing.
In addition, it supports both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, plus HLG for TV broadcasts in HDR when available, and can pass through Dolby Atmos when connected to a capable sound system.
The HX940 comes with Local Dimming Pro Intelligent tech that allows for better black levels in dark scenes, thanks to multi-zoned control over the backlight. While the Home Screen 5.0 smart TV platform gives you all the latest streaming apps and customisation options for you to put the ones you use the most front and centre.
Panasonic HX940 4K TV review: Elevated imagery
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Panasonic HX800/820
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Screen sizes: 65in, 58in, 50in, 40in
LED, 3840 x 2160 pixels, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, Dolby Atmos
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The Panasonic HX820 and HX800 are effectively the same LED TV, except the 820 is available exclusively through John Lewis in the UK. You might find it has a different stand or bezel colour.
It drops the picture processor down to the HCX (not Pro) but you won’t notice much in practice, we feel. You also get the HDR Bright Panel Plus technology and Local Dimming technologies from Panasonic, rather than advanced versions found in the 940.
4K HDR standards are all still supported at this level, with HDR10+, Dolby Vision and HLG Photo – which was introduced with the 2019 range below.
Dolby Atmos is also supported, although you will need a decent, compatible sound system to get the most from it.
Panasonic HX800 4K TV review: Hitting that cinematic sweet spot
Oppo will introduce the Find X3 series in March and a device from the lineup with the model number CPH2173 has appeared at the US FCC and the Chinese Compulsory Certification (also known as CCC or 3C). The phone will have two equally sized cells with 2,200 mAh minimal charge, meaning the whole battery capacity will hold a typical charge of around 4,500 mAh.
On top of that, the phone that we believe is the Find X3 Pro will have a 65W charger, which shouldn’t be a surprise, since the Oppo Find X2 series also had it.
Oppo CPH2173 certifications
The phone will come with Snapdragon 888 chipset, and according to FCC, it will run ColorOS 11.2, based on Android 11. The FCC has approved usage of USB-C earphones which means there’ll be no 3.5 mm audio jack, although this is hardly a surprise.
In other specs we know, the Oppo Find X3 Pro should come with a new sensor, developed by Sony for the main cam, the front panel is likely to be a 6.7” OLED with 1440p resolution and a single punch hole in the upper left corner for the selfie cam.
Realme has confirmed that it will be one of the first smartphone makers to leverage the power of MediaTek’s new Dimensity 1200 chipset. This is the first 6nm chipset from MediaTek and it will be Realme’s first 6nm chip as well, so the company is equally excited about the power savings it will enable in and the the extra speed.
And this will certainly be faster. Previous Dimensity chips used Cortex-A77 core (at least the 1000-series did) and they topped out at 2.6GHz. This one gets the new Cortex-A78 core and it will run it at 3.0GHz (according to ARM’s official numbers, this means 20% higher single-core performance).
A Realme phone will be one of the first to run on Dimensity 1200 power
The chipset features 5G connectivity, of course and will join the growing list of 5G-connected Realme phones. The company also mentioned AI applications in imaging and gaming that will leverage the more powerful NPU inside the new chip.
CEO Madhav Sheth has been teasing a new X-series phone and even posted a photo of the X9. You can’t see much, but it’s just part of the many “Xciting” teasers, but not much official detail yet.
We heard from a trusted source that the Realme X9 Pro will be the phone in question. Its Dimensity 1200 will be paired with up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128/256 GB storage. The phone should launch with Android 11 with Realme UI 2.0.
According to our source, the X9 Pro will be the first Realme phone with a 108MP camera (and it will have two 13MP modules too, almost certainly telephoto plus ultrawide). It will have a 6.4” OLED display with 120Hz refresh rate and 1,080 x 2,400 px resolution and, finally, the 4,500 mAh battery will support 65W fast charging.
By the way, a Realme exec officially confirmed that the company is working on a Snapdragon 888-powered phone as well. That chip is fabbed at 5nm, so Realme’s 7nm era will end quickly as the company is about to embrace smaller nodes.
Honor was expected to announce its new V40 5G flagship on January 18, but the announcement date was pushed back to January 22. The company claimed that it had venue scheduling and equipment issues for as cause of the delay, but some speculation leads to believe that Honor could have postponed the event so it could ship the devices with Google Play Services out of the box. This is according to insiders that told Lenta RU.
Since the Huawei US ban from May of 2019, the phone maker would not be allowed to package Google Play Services with the new device, which hurt its sales in Western markets. This also applied to Honor smartphones since the brand was owned by Huawei. Huawei sold off the Honor brand and assets and the newly formed company would no longer be held under the sanctions against Huawei.
The Honor V40 was in the pipeline during the sale of the smartphone brand, so it appears that in the last couple of months, Honor was able to secure a license to ship the newest 5G smartphone with Google Play Services – allegedly, of course.
The V40 will be announced in China on January 22 with Western market availability happening some time after that where it will be known as the ‘Honor V40 View’. Although the event was postponed, Honor promised the phone would become available for sale in China on the 22nd. The phone is expected to arrive with a 6.72-inch OLED screen running the 120Hz refresh rate. The Mediatek Dimensity 1000+ chipset will be the brains of all operation.
The quad-camera will consist of a 50MP main camera sensor and the phone will support 66W fast charging by wire, and 55W wireless charging.
If Honor does indeed bring back Google Play Services, it still leaves more questions than answers. Will the Honor brand still use Magic UI (based on EMUI and pre-frameworked for Harmony OS)? Will existing Honor phones be able to get Google Play Services now? It will be interesting to see Honor as a valid option once again in markets where Realme, Redmi, and POCO have become comfortable without Honor and Huawei dominating sales.
Only hours after Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 870 chipset, Motorola has confirmed that its Moto Edge S will premiere with the new chip on January 26.
Motorola had already teased the new smartphone on Weibo and gave us hints about the new chipset.
The Snapdragon 870 has the fastest closck speed of any chipset at the moment with the Kryo 585 (a reworked Cortex-A77), running up to 3.2GHz. The chipset is built on TSMC’s 7nm process and has 8 cores – the aforementioned super-fast Cortex-A77, three Cortex-A77 running at a lower speed and 4 Cortex-A55 for efficiency.
The Motorola Edge S is expected to have a 6.7-inch FHD+ display with an odd 105Hz refresh rate and a 64MP main camera. We expect the Edge S to bring similar specs to the Motorola Edge+, which has a 5,000mAh battery, OLED display, possibly a very curved one, and a triple camera (0.5x-1x-3x).
NVIDIA released G -SYNC Ultimate to create a category of high performance monitors with the latest on the market together with its G-SYNC hardware synchronization technology. Among the characteristics that certified monitors had to meet, was DCI-P3 color coverage and the best available HDR, the one that could achieve 1000 cd / m² as in the case of the Acer Predator X 35 that we analyze.
G-SYNC Ultimate no longer means that the monitor has HDR support 1000
However, it seems that G-SYNC Ultimate has downgraded, and the company has updated the minimum characteristics, going from BEST HDR; to “LifeLike HDR”, a rather ambiguous name that has led to NVIDIA certifying G-SYNC Ultimate monitors with support for the most basic HDR, DisplayHDR 400.
In fact, models like the ACER X 34 S now appear certified as G-SYNC Ultimate with only compatibility HDR Display 400.
NVIDIA assures that this is an error and that ACER X 34 S should not be on that list, (although there are models with HDR 600) in addition to commenting that they changed the specification to include news:
“Late last year we updated G-SYNC ULTIMATE to include new evas display technologies such as OLED and latest generation LCDs
All G-SYNC Ultimate displays are equipped with NVIDIA G-SYNC processors to deliver a fantastic gaming experience including lifelike HDR, stunning contrast, cinematic color and modes. ultra low latency. While the original G-SYNC Ultimate screens were 1000 nits with FALD, the newer ones, like OLED, offer infinite contrast with only 600 – 700 nits. G-SYNC Ultimate was never defined only by the nits nor was a VESA DisplayHDR certification 1000 required. Conventional G-SYNC displays also have NVIDIA G-SYNC processors installed.
Monitor ACER X 34 S was wrongly listed as G-SYNC ULTIMATE on NVIDIA’s website. It should be listed as “G-SYNC”, the web is being updated. “
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Apparently NVIDIA has made some changes to the requirements for monitors offered with G-Sync Ultimate support. With defined requirements and certification, NVIDIA wants to ensure that certain standards are adhered to. One of these specifications is a brightness of 1. 000 cd / m².
But this one NVIDIA seems to have reduced the default, because monitors have appeared in the past few weeks and days that do not support these 1. 000 cd / m² comply more and still be offered as a G-Sync Ultimate Monitor. At the CES, NVIDIA presented the GeForce RTX 3060, which should come on the market at the end of February, but much focused on the mobile Ampere offshoot of the GeForce RTX – 30-Series. But NVIDIA also wanted to point out new monitors that were advertised together with the Reflex technology. Some of the new monitors offer “only” DisplayHDR 600, so by definition cannot be set to 1. 000 cd / m² come. In the meantime, NVIDIA apparently also offers monitors as G-Sync Ultimate models that only offer DisplayHDR 400 and therefore only 400 cd / m² come.
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It looks like NVIDIA has changed the definition for HDR – at least internally. While so far there has always been talk of nits or cd / m² for the brightness or this was also a requirement for G-Sync Ultimate, NVIDIA now uses the description “Lifelike HDR”, which is now really far from any technical definition.
The colleagues at ComputerBase now have a Statement received from NVIDIA:
“Late last year we updated G-SYNC ULTIMATE to include new display technologies such as OLED and edge- lit LCDs.
All G-SYNC Ultimate displays are powered by advanced NVIDIA G-SYNC processors to deliver a fantastic gaming experience including lifelike HDR, stunning contract, cinematic color and ultra-low latency gameplay. While the original G-SYNC Ultimate displays were 1000 nits with FALD, the newest displays, like OLED, deliver infinite contrast with only 600 – 700 nits, and advanced multi-zone edge-lit displays offer remarkable contrast with 600 – 700 nits. G-SYNC Ultimate was never defined by nits alone nor did it require a VESA DisplayHDR 1000 certification. Regular G-SYNC displays are also powered by NVIDIA G-SYNC processors as well.
The ACER X 34 S monitor was erroneously listed as G-SYNC ULTIMATE on the NVIDIA web site. It should be listed as “G-SYNC” and the web page is being corrected. “
NVIDIA justifies the reduction in this that they wanted to include monitors compatible with G-Sync Ultimate, which use panels with OLED and edge-lit LCD. In the case of OLEDs and edge-lit LCDs, these achieved 600 to 700 cd / m² in brightness, but G-Sync Ultimate would never have been defined by brightness alone wrongly listed a certain model as G-Sync Ultimate, although this should only have been categorized as a G-Sync display. This error has now been fixed.
Nevertheless, the impression is spreading that NVIDIA is softening the categorization as G-Sync Ultimate. OLEDs certainly have outstanding properties and this also applies to edge-lit LCDs, but in terms of brightness, “Lifelike HDR” can certainly mean a lot.
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This week kicked off with news that Nvidia has quietly made some changes to the G-Sync ecosystem, with the G-Sync Ultimate classification seemingly changing to allow lower spec’d monitors to receive Nvidia’s badge of honour. Today, KitGuru has been in touch with Nvidia to get the full story.
For those who missed the original story yesterday, Twitter user PCMonitors spotted some changes to Nvidia’s G-Sync Ultimate programme. Seemingly, the requirement for 1000 nit HDR was toned down and monitors that previously would not have been eligible for G-Sync Ultimate were apparently being given the classification. The concern here was that a consumer buying a G-Sync Ultimate monitor in 2021 may not be getting the same quality as a G-Sync Ultimate monitor sold between 2019 and 2020.
Of course, this is just one side of the story. Today, Nvidia sent us a statement explaining the changes to G-Sync Ultimate in more detail:
“Late last year we updated G-SYNC ULTIMATE to include new display technologies such as OLED and edge-lit LCDs. While the original G-SYNC Ultimate displays were 1000 nits with FALD, the newest displays, like OLED, deliver infinite contrast with only 600-700 nits, and advanced multi-zone edge-lit displays offer remarkable contrast with 600-700 nits. G-SYNC Ultimate was never defined by nits alone nor did it require a VESA DisplayHDR1000 certification. Regular G-SYNC displays are also powered by NVIDIA G-SYNC processors as well.”
In the case of the Acer X34 S display, this display was listed as G-Sync Ultimate by mistake on Nvidia’s website. The web page is being fixed to ensure monitors are listed properly. The Acer X34 S should now appear on the Nvidia website as a G-Sync display, a notch down from G-Sync Ultimate.
KitGuru Says: OLED gaming displays are on the way and we have other promising display technologies like Mini-LED and MicroLED on the horizon too. Given that these can offer better contrast and colour at lower brightness settings, the change in language for G-Sync Ultimate certified monitors makes much more sense now.
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