A snippet on Alienware Arena teased Alienware's new AW2521H, a 24.5" 360 Hz monitor with G-SYNC. I'm presuming this monitor uses the same panel as in ASUS's ROG Swift 360 Hz, but Alienware spilled the beans about it being an IPS panel, something that ASUS and NVIDIA didn't reveal back in their January announcement.

As for availability, Alienware used the same phrase as ASUS: "later this year."

So piecing both announcements together, we now have two monitors using a new 360 Hz FHD AU Optronics panel, both with hardware G-SYNC. I originally speculated that ASUS had to be using a TN panel to reach response times that would allow quality 360 Hz operation, but after reviewing the VG279QM, a 280 Hz IPS, I'm at least optimistic that AU Optronics will be able to get close enough.

For the VG279QM, at 280 Hz with the ideal overdrive setting of 80, I measured an average full-scale response (not 10% to 90%) of 6.6 ms. Clearly that doesn't fit in a 280 Hz window of only 3.6 ms, but motion clarity is improved even with partial transitions. If AU Optronics can get this new panel down to an average of around 5 ms, 360 Hz should show marked clarity improvements over 240 or 280 Hz.

I'm very excited to see both of these monitors in action.

We've seen so far only two monitors using AUO's 27" 240 Hz TN panel: the very hard to find Lenovo Legion Y27gq-25 and the HP Omen X 27, so it's good to have a third option available.

I've heard good things about the response times of both the Lenovo and the HP, but also some complaints about the aggressive TN-style anti-glare coating on the screen, which can ruin an otherwise beautiful picture. And these monitors also lack a backlight strobing mode, which dampens my enthusiasm a bit.

The LG OLED48CX might just kill all other gaming monitors.

CRT and OLED fans have been waiting for years for an OLED monitor, and this 48" is about as good (and monitor sized) as we're going to get for the foreseeable future. 55" is really too big for a desktop monitor, but at 48 inches, and with all the benefits of OLED, there are ways to make it work.

And amazingly, this'll surely be much cheaper than Acer's $3,600 Predator X32. Take the extra cash and buy a bigger desk... or a wall-mount.

Well this is a fascinating CES 2020 announcement. The Swift 360 Hz will use a 24.5" AO Optronics panel, presumably TN, pushed to 360 Hz.

I haven't really been blown away by any display announcements at this year's CES, but the Swift 360 is one to look forward to. To properly hit 360 Hz, pixels need to complete their transitions in 2.8 ms, which seems do-able for a good TN. The LG 24GM79G, an older TN, had the majority of its First Response times below 4 ms, and I suspect with NVIDIA's tuning, transitions will be well behaved throughout the refresh rate range.

No details about backlight strobing modes were given, but I'm hoping ULMB will available.

NVIDIA claims it's coming "later this year," but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Here we have Acer and ASUS simultaneously announcing the same 144 Hz, 1152-zone FALD 4K panel. Both hold G-SYNC ULTIMATE certification, 1400 nit peak brightness, and extended gamut color space.

ASUS hasn't mentioned availability or price, but Acer has: Q2, starting at USD $3,599. Yikes.