Monitor Response Times

BCreation · February 9, 2013

When do you really see a big difference in MS? For reference, comparing a Dell U2711 27inch 6ms and an Asus PB278Q 5ms.

Basically 2ms vs 5ms vs 6ms vs 8ms.

GoodBytes · February 9, 2013

Response time is meaningless.

Lets compare 2 monitors to showcase this. The Dell U2410 and the ViewSonic VX2739wm with its special TN panel with 1ms response time. So we should expect 6 time faster result than the U2410.

The measurements bellow, are made by TFTCentral, an in depth monitor review site with extremely high standard, where there is no perfect or even close monitor with them.

The Dell U2410 has a 6ms response time, it's an IPS panel, and it's 1920x1200 resolution (so the resolution is higher than the next one we will compare, so in result, it should be slower. The more vertical lines of pixels you have, the slower the response time, as the monitor draws line by line from top to bottom.) This has everything on its side to be slow.

The ViewSonic VX2739wm has a lower resolution of 1920x1080, and rated to be a mighty 1 ms response time. It is a TN panel. Lets have a look at the comparison:

As you can see the U2410 wins by a bit. Well someone is lying in their test.. well.. they are not.

The problem with response time measurement is that they are measured using gray-to-gray measurement. That means, that the manufacture gets to use 2 gray colors of their choice, and not limited to the same one, and measures how fast the monitor takes to refresh a pixel on the screen. They take the best results they got, and voila!

Read reviews, don't look at response time.

So don't get fooled with the numbers. Check reviews!