petergase wrote: ↑02 Dec 2025, 11:05
thank you really much and what about vrr?
Does it matter whether the screen has a frequency of 480 Hz or 720 Hz when VRR is enabled? If I only achieve 200 fps.
Higher Hz reduces video cable transmission latency. Your 200fps frames transmit over the video cable in 1/480sec or 1/720sec respective. That being said, the time differential of (1/480)-(1/720) = 0.694ms = 694 microseconds. And since screen center is halftime, that would be half that - less than 0.35ms difference in frame transport latency.
Just having 480Hz improves your 200fps reasonably significantly over 240Hz, but the difference of 480 vs 720 will be extremely incremental.
Also, the move to having a VRR range bigger than your 0.1% worst/best frametimes, means you completely avoid the VRR range drawbacks like sudden latency at MaxHz (That we used to have to cap to avoid). So a ginormous VRR range bigger than your framerate range, means mostly compromises-free VRR in esports.
In addition, a very high MaxHz means extremely clear scrolling/panning in 2D software, as seen at
www.blurbusters.com/120vs480 -- including silky smooth CRT-motion-clarity browser scrolling.
Either OLED will usually be a significant upgrade to a typical 144-240Hz LCD for esports.
The most common (potential) caveats you may run into for OLEDs will generally be:
- VRR flicker, which is minor enough that it only bothers some people. VRR also can be turned off too if you dislike it a lot;
- Quality during ambient lighting (not always a problem -- most esports LCDs were historically lower quality TN LCDs);
- Text clarity of odd pixel structures (just turn off ClearType);