Highest refresh rate: Samsung set to launch first 500Hz OLED display 147 comments
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Ever higher refresh rates are also the goal of OLED displays. Samsung Display will soon introduce the first 500Hz panel for OLED monitors. That’s another 20 Hertz more than competitor LG Display.
500Hz with WQHD on 27 inches
As ET News from South Korea reports, Samsung is in the final stages of developing the first 500Hz OLED panel. Strictly speaking, it’s a QD-OLED panel that combines organic light-emitting diodes and quantum dots. The 500Hz QD-OLED display is said to offer a visible image diagonal of 27 inches and 2,560 × 1,440 pixels (WQHD). Unsurprisingly, it will be used in gaming monitors from Samsung and other manufacturers. A market launch in the first half of 2025 is being discussed with the latter.
The world’s first 500 Hz OLED panel, as it will certainly be presented later, raises the previous benchmark of 480 Hz by only 4 percent. A noticeable difference is therefore unlikely. LG Display has been producing the first 480 Hz OLED displays in series since the summer. These are also models with WQHD resolution. Monitors based on this are the Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDP and the Sony Inzone M10S.
ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDP
LCD displays have come a long way
LCD monitors already offer refresh rates of up to 540 Hz. 600 Hz is even promised for notebooks.
At 600 Hz, latency would drop to 1.66 ms, only a tenth of the 16.66 ms of a 60 Hz display. However, the absolute latency advantage is getting smaller and smaller. While going from 60 Hz to 120 Hz resulted in a gain of about 8.3 ms, going from 120 Hz to 240 Hz only resulted in a gain of 4.1 ms. The debate over whether differences are still noticeable with displays above 240 Hz is often conducted without any clear ideas.
Refresh rate in Hz 60 120 144 240 360 480 600 Latency in ms (rounded down) 16.6 8.3 6.9 4.2 2.8 2.1 1.6
OLEDs are becoming more and more popular with gamers
What also makes OLED screens interesting for gamers are the extremely short response times of 0.03 ms, while LCD screens are 0.5 ms at best. Although there is still some risk of burn-in, covered by some manufacturers’ warranties, OLED monitors are trendy. Omdia market research projects an average growth rate of 34% per year until 2028.
Topics: Displays Samsung OLED Monitors Source: etnews.com
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