HOR+ Field of Views at different aspect ratios
shaded red shows FoV lost at 16:10 vs 16:9 in the first two "streetview" images directly below
16:9/16:10 and multiple monitor aspect ratios to give further visual insights through visual representations
120HZ+ BENEFITS
Photos: 60hz vs 120hz vs Lightboost
(www.blurbusters.com/faq/60vs120vslb/ )
the following three photos are from the link above, credit for the blur amount testing listed directly below the photos goes to blurbusters.com also.
Of course the blurry monitors would have a much worse result in a full scene of complex objects, very high detail textures, depth via bump mapping, shaders, etc. being blurred in your entire viewport rather than a single cartoonish object example.
60HZ
120HZ
Lightboost
baseline - 60 Hz mode (16.7ms continuously-shining frame)
- the worst blur "outside of the lines"/shadow masks of everything in the viewport
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the lowest definition motion/animation, worse accuracy/timing/reaction time due to slower and less frequent action updates shown.
50% less motion blur (2x clearer) - 120 Hz mode (8.33ms continuously-shining frame)
60% less motion blur (2.4x clearer) - 144 Hz mode (6.94ms continuously-shining frame)
85% less motion blur (7x clearer) - 120 Hz LightBoost, set to 100% (2.4ms frame strobe flashes)
92% less motion blur (12x clearer) - 120 Hz LightBoost, set to 10% (1.4ms frame strobe flashes)
My opinion
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You can get a korean 2560x1440 for all the ips desktop benefits outside of gaming pretty cheap. Some people are getting some 4k tv's as monitors now , but the colors aren't as good as a good ips I hear. That's great for everything outside of games.
For gaming I don't get people who want 60hz, horrible smearing and obliterating of detail blur outside of the "shadow mask" of everything in the entire viewport, 1/2 or worse the scene action slice updates shown per second, 1/2 or worse the smoothness/fluidity of motion. The ufo test may be good to show a plain example, but in actual 1st/3rd person games the entire viewport of cgi scene architecture and "geology", all onscreen creatures and objects and all high detail textures and shaders with be smeared out.
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Many also demand resolutions that cripple fps for gaming. Even 2560x resolutions are prohibitive on $750 - $1k in gpus to get high fps at medium, high, or high+/custom settings. 1080p looks like the sweet spot for enthusiast level budgets without going to extreme budgets (extreme $1500 - $2k + in gpus alone). You can get 100 - 120+ fps in a lot of games with a gtx780 or a titan at 1080p with the settings very high. On BF3 you can get 120fps with a gtx -6-80 on medium for that matter.
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I find it very aggravating that several review/benchmark sites are not even including 1080p into their tests lately by the way.
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I wish blurbusters would consider doing some of it's camera motion tracking tests(60hz, 120hz, 144hz, lightboost modes) on some popular games to show the effect of the entire viewport smear on very high detail scenes/textures/shaders and post the pictures in addition to the ufo photos. I think it would provide further enlightenment.
Unfortunately, unless you have a 120hz or greater input monitor, you are limited in examples to showing the blur amount still shots and are unable to show the increased action slices or aesthetic smoothness of motion outright.
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"Ultra" / Max presentation of games has tradeoffs:
The tradeoffs are FoV motion blur vs reduced or eliminated, color quality and uniformity, resolution and resolution vs fps limitations/budget extremes, high or low definition movement/animation/updates and aesthetic smoothness, lower or higher accuracy due to the number of more recent game world action/scene updates being displayed.
Personally I want 100fps+ on a 120hz monitor for my games (over 120fps optimally). Whatever my gpu budget is vs how demanding a game is limits what video settings quality i will set a game at. For me, sub 100fps and not running a 120hz monitor is not "ultra" graphics/display experience at all. It is not max settings to me, or perhaps "max configuration" and maximum presentation of the game world to me. Maximum blur and the worst aesthetic motion smoothness (and reduced accuracy) is not the best/max visual presentation of a game. |