Games certatinly run much smoother than they do with V-Sync alone, and this Acer panel doesn’t need any messing around with to get that up and running. Still though, FreeSync is great if you’re already running a compatible AMD graphics card. At $500 it’s also not really toeing the line that FreeSync isn’t adding a price premium-you can pick up a 27-inch IPS 1440p panel for around $100 less. This is a new technology, so the early screens aren’t going to be perfect, and the XG270HU most certainly isn’t that. Our first experience of FreeSync isn’t brilliant, then.
With FreeSync, AMD says it’s up to the panel manufacturers to ensure dynamic refresh rates and pixel persistence is tuned for each screen. There’s also a noticeable amount of ghosting on the panel when you’re using FreeSync, too, something Nvidia claims isn’t present with G-Sync panels because its hardware is set up specifically for each panel to operate optimally.
The Acer is just making do with a limited tilt stand-there’s no height adjustment, which is a bit of a miss considering TN’s paucity of vertical viewing angle.
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The addition of the G-Sync license and hardware isn’t the only reason the Swift is more expensive. It’s also not so hot on the whites either, but both being TN panels, neither are exactly paragons in that regard. The contrast and gradients on the Acer are only slightly behind the expensive Asus monitor, but it’s a long way behind when it comes to the black reproduction. Sometimes only by a touch, but sometimes by a wider margin. But Acer has an example on its way to us now the XB270HU is the first monitor from a mainstream brand to offer a 144Hz refresh rate in an IPS panel, and on top of that it’s QHD. Aside from possibly a slightly improved viewing angle for the Acer panel, it loses out to the Swift in terms of image quality. Putting the monitors cheek-by-jowl, you can see they’re most definitely not the same.
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