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IPS VS TN Panels - Input Lag (Latency) Test and Discussion on Ghosting

2014-03-26
welcome back to tech yesterday this is dark easy coming back to you guys today with a comparison between TN and IPS panels now I'm also gonna first of all I'm going to show you guys some tests that I did between these two panels I have my dear mirrorless DSLR here and I managed to stop it down to a thousandth one thousandth of a second so the results are pretty interesting and then also I'll be going on to do some gameplay video and commentary and talk about my Yama Kazi monitor and my TN panel and which I prefer in which situation so anyway let's move on now with the results first okay so here is the first test that we're doing and essentially the monitor on the left is a Korean 27 inch IPS monitor and the monitor on the right is a Samsung 700d 23 inch monitor now this even though the yamakasi can go up to 1440p I decided to test both these monitors at 1080p duplicate display from the same graphics card that will give you a rough estimate of which has better input lag if one does have better input lag than the other essentially this test is not a hundred percent accurate however it is a fairly accurate test and people with like people like me who don't have really expensive equipment can still do these tests for you guys so that's one thing I really like about this test I will put the link in the description below where you can download this timer and test it for yourself if you have two different monitors if you want to but it is best compared generally with the CRT monitor as well because they have generally considered to have the lowest response times however I just wanted to compare today's comparison between IPs and TN panels so the IPS on the Left we can see here it's what I mean when we first took the I stopped my camera down to 1/1000 of a second and we can see here the results were very impressive the IPS panel did better than the Samsung in terms of input lag I mean it beat it by 2 or 3 milliseconds that was very impressive I was shocked when I first saw this I was like damn and it is one thing one thing I will note about this particular IPS model our panel is that it doesn't have an on-screen display so it's basically just directly getting the pulling the image from your graphics card so that may help with input lag but I was surprised to find that the IPS 27-inch Korean special beat the TN panel and that was just wow I've really opened my eyes however I will say once I did research this a little bit more on the internet I found out that Samsung panels in the heart in the competitive gaming scene are not the best hand panels apparently the ozu's panels have better response times so that's something to consider if you are a very competitive gamer one thing you will notice about these tests so even on this image here and I'll talk I'll do another slide for you guys soon but is the ghosting as you can see on the left the IPS panel does to exhibit some ghosting as you can see there with the top and the bottom timers the as you see on the right the TN panel exhibits virtually nil I mean the ghosting I can't notice any ghosting from this frame the IPS panel though is the ghosting is evident and I will be talking about that a little bit more on my vlog one also one more important thing to note is that if FPS was set to fifty nine point nine seven I think that's the only a refresh rate that the IPS panel can run on on my desktop so I yeah I mean it is that the ten is it a bit of a disadvantage because it can run at a hundred and twenty Hertz per second anyway let's move on now to the next test so here's me just booting up Call of Duty ghosts and I was just firing a gun and I took a shot and as you can see here there's a slight bit of ghosting on the IPS panel I mean it's definitely not terrible but it is noticeable and I'll talk about I'll show you guys a test that you can also do very soon but let's move over now to the Samsung TN panel and here's the Samsung TN panel it exhibit it exhibits no noticeable ghosting so the first test that you guys can do is load up a game called heroes and us and this is basically you can see if your monitor is ghosting now the YouTube video is only thirty frame per second so it's a little bit choppy you may not be may not be able to read it from this YouTube video but if you see your characters moving here you should be able to read this text very clearly both your user name and the characters name on my TN panel I can read this text clearly however when I switched over to my IPS panel I couldn't read the text that well it was pretty blurry so this to me was showing that the ghosting effect was taking effect even in a game like hero's new earth which isn't as fast-paced as an FPS game so I do love this game as well it is a great game for testing CPU overclocks as well so this leaves a question of which is better for what and when should you choose the one over the other me owning both I'm pretty much I like them both they both have their good points and they both have their bad points I'll talk about the IPS panel first in Korean Yama Kazi now the good thing about it is it was relatively inexpensive it was only 300 and something USD delivered to my door and it was absolutely it's a beautiful display I mean everything I pretty much preferred the IPS panel for everything other than gaming and you know when you're watching movies movies are beautiful when you're watching when you're doing work this is the best thing when I'm actually making videos for you guys the IPS monitor just gives me so much more screen real estate not to mention the colors and it look a lot better as well as the image looks a lot more crisp however when we switch over to gaming this is when I started to notice ghosting as soon as I booted up the monitor I noticed that even in a game like heroes in u.s. ghosting was pretty evident and now this is considered one of the better Korean panels I mean it's got no in pretty much it's got known like little to no input lag and it doesn't have an on-screen display so I think the technology is still still needs a little few refinements but if they can get rid of the ghosting then I definitely will be moving to IPS for gaming but as it stands I'm still going to be on my TN panel for gaming mainly because of the ghost and that's it even though the res the 1440p resolution or screen real estate I just like to game on my 1080p at 120 Hertz I just think the image looks so much more crisper and the motions more fluid and I would and I'd rather have that than 1440p 60 Hertz so ultimately though when it came down to working and doing everything other than gaming I preferred the IPS panel so it's it's kind of alaikum to toss up it and ultimately it comes down to what do you spend the majority of your time doing on a PC if you spend the majority of your time gaming then I would probably go with the TN panel if you spend the majority of your time on the PC doing work or watching movies or anything non-gaming then I would probably recommend the 1440p over the TN so it just depends who you are for me after spending a good two months using the IPS panel I found that it starts it started to make my eyes pretty tired so that's something I did notice and keep in mind though that the the 27-inch man it was absolutely huge it was a monster I said about 50 centimetres away from my monitor and I mean the 27-inch was just massive I don't see how people can have 32 inch monitors on their desks I mean or anything like that so something to keep in mind that the 27-inch was for me I don't want any bigger than a 27 inch I mean it was just huge so I can see that monitors keep getting bigger but I think it's starting to get to a stop point where people just don't want them any bigger than the space just isn't needed so I thought that was interesting and yeah I looked forward to getting I'm actually very keen to see the Zeus rogue 1440p TN gaming monitor that's something I've got my eyes open out for because I'd really like to see what it does and so that's something else is it too as well.you as you guys know 10 doesn't have the as good as viewing Engels as the IPS monitors so if you do a lot of time maybe if you're working in your room and you do a lot of viewing from different angles and you may want to get an IPS panel but if you like me and you're always facing the front of your monitor then it's not really going to make a difference between 10 and IPS I'm always you know I'm always in front of my monitor when I'm using it and so viewing angles don't really affect me the advantage of the IPS panel but ultimately though the ghosting was if you ask me would I prefer 120 Hertz and no ghosting 1080p over 1440p and ghosting the answer for me is yes I prefer no ghosting 1080p 120 Hertz over 1440p ghosting that's just me so that ghosting as well it doesn't go away that's inherent to the IPS panel even if you clock that to 120 Hertz you might even find it might get a little bit worse so that is inherent to the monitor so yeah overclocking that mana I mean it's just IPS technology it's getting better it's getting a lot better and I mean I think one day it will I mean obviously it will be better than 10 but as it stands up today 2014 March IPS panels aren't better than 10 for ghosting so that's something that I was yeah so something I'm kind of left here going damn I wish the IPS monitor had no ghosting then it would be my perfect gaming solution but unfortunately that's not the case so yeah anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this video also I'll quickly talk about the yeah McCarthy monitor after using it for two months give you guys an update on it I really enjoyed it it made a screen real estate Wow it's like there's just more room I can do so much more work on the 1440p monitor I mean it's bigger and then you've got more res you've got like almost twice the res so you can pretty much got double the space like when I'm editing videos or when I'm making my thumbnails and stuff like that it's just it's so much easier to do it on the Korean panel watching movies was also a lot better however gaming wasn't as good in my opinion so that's the trade-offs with IPS versus TN and I thought the Yammer Kazi model in particular is been performing pretty well it hasn't really skipped a beat I haven't noticed it doing anything bad as you guys can see like I haven't noticed my my basically my IPS panel has been performing really well so there is one thing I will tell you about it though and that is that it does sort of when I've got all like I put an all-white image up on my screen it kind of starts to make this little buzzing noise and apparently that's just some of the parts in the back whining a bit of coil wine or something like that it's nothing to worry about but ultimately the the panel is exceptional value for money I mean it was like 320 USD and I can highly recommend the Korean Korean panels and as you guys saw today the input lag of the Korean panel was phenomenal I mean it was beating my TN panel so that's that was very impressive I was surprised when I saw that so definitely the Koreans definitely know what they're doing when it comes to making monitors just the ghosting thing is the only disadvantage anyway if you have any questions or comments about this video please leave a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you guys as soon as I can and if you haven't already please give this video a like and if you want to see more tech videos and subscribe to tech yes City heroes I will catch you soon peace out for now bye
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