Greg Hook
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Can someone explain why PC monitors are so expensive? For that price, you could get a 65" 4K OLED TV. It wouldn't have GSync, but next year's model will have the TV equivalent (HDMI 2.1), and the picture quality will be vastly superior.
I use an ultrawide on my PC which is a great aspect ratio, but the actual quality of the screen is dismal. It's low resolution (3440x1440), SDR, has no local dimming, has insane amounts of IPS light bleed, is incredibly dim (300nits), the black levels are utterly laughable, and it has tons of horrible LCD afterblur and smearing in motion. It's a Dell and cost around £600 on sale (I believe the normal price was around £800). I've been looking for something better for a while, but there just isn't anything.
There was a time when PC monitors put TVs to shame. Those days are long, long gone. PC monitors are a joke.
£2kThe price is just ridiculous. I have just put together a new PC, reasonably high end but I didn't update the graphics card (I still have my NVidia 970), as I only have a 24" 1900x1200 HP monitor. I thought, wrongly, I would be able to find a widescreen, 32", HDR monitor at a reasonable refresh rate. So its really not worth updating the graphics card if I can't do the monitor. I did hear AOC are getting close with their Agon AG353UCG, but its not out until later this year and I still haven't seen a price.
Can someone explain why PC monitors are so expensive? For that price, you could get a 65" 4K OLED TV. It wouldn't have GSync, but next year's model will have the TV equivalent (HDMI 2.1), and the picture quality will be vastly superior.
A few reasons why they are so expensive, the G-Sync module in the monitor is very expensive,they can get away with it and the usual early adoption fee.
When you have people who can afford to pay £1200 for a graphics card, what is £1800 on a Monitor to get the best out of that graphics card?
Also, you won't get a TV that can do the high refresh rates that some PC monitors can do and compatiblity with FreeSync or G-Sync.
Why is GSync so expensive when FreeSync is free? They're basically the same thing. Same with HDMI 2.1.
Quite simply it is so expensive because Nvidia can get away with it.
If AMD were any competition to Nvidia you wouldn't see such a massive premium for G-Sync and £1200 graphics cards. Nvidia/AMD market share is roughly 70/30. So miles ahead, which is why they get away with the prices they do. Similar case with Intel.
It's what people think, and it explains the price disparity, but unless you're buying a really high end card like a gtx1080ti, rtx2080 or rtx2080ti, it's often worth buying AMD imo. The AMD Vega 64 is not far behind an rx2070 at stock for example, and you can buy the best variant (the Sapphire Nitro) for around £350.
RTX is the big thing now on PC though, which means you have to go NVidia. When I watch those Digital Foundry videos of raytracing on vs off, the difference is so enormous I know for sure it's what I'll want the next time I upgrade.