AUOptronics Introduces its 85 “4K Panel with 240Hz Refresh Rate, RTX 4090 Ready

AUOptronics announced during a press conference in Taiwan, a new 85-inch panel, resolution 3840 x 2160 pixels (4K) and a variable refresh rate of 240 Hz.

The funny thing is that if we go to the official AUO page, there is no mention of an 85-inch 240 Hz panel. We can only see its 4K and 8k panels up to 120 Hz.

The panel features an ultra-high dynamic range and an ultra-wide color gamut at DCI-P3 96%. Its anti-reflective technology, reduces lighting interference with the panel, is based on a special surface structure design to change the light reflection directions, with a low-reflectance coating.

According to AUO this panel is aimed at “large format” gaming as they call it

The interesting thing is its enormous refresh rate. Most high-end gaming monitors max out at 144Hz, a standard for more expensive displays. For the display to produce such high refresh rates, you’d need to use HDMI 2.1 connectivity, and the best would be DisplayPort 2.0. If you were using HDMI 2.1, you might need to use Display Stream Compression (DSC) because the frequency is so high.

With the lack of information, we can only speculate what you can use at this time.

However, it is very difficult to have so much power to be able to use all the capabilities of this panel. Let’s remember that gaming in 4K at 60 fps is already something that most PCs and consoles cannot run so easily. And even if we had an RTX 3080, depending on the game we would only go up to 144 Hz. What I am going to do is that only less demanding games could run at 240 Hz and 4K, and considering what this panel is probably worth, I do not think it is the best investment considering current hardware.

Likewise, these types of projects serve to further the capabilities of current technology. Perhaps this panel is not very popular at the moment, but who knows if in one or two generations we will see consoles capable of moving games in 8K 144 Hz base without any problem. And from there up.

Would you guys play on such a panel? Do you think that in a couple of years playing at higher resolution and higher Hz will become standard?

Source: WCCFTech