Asus has announced the world's first 610 Hz gaming monitor, and a 'Super TN' panel is the price you pay for that speed

A picture of the Asus ROG Strix Ace XG248QSG TN gaming monitor — (Image credit: Future)

To most, TN panels seem like a thing of days gone by. Trading ultimate speed and price for mediocre colour accuracy and poor viewing angles, it makes you ask, "Do I really need that much speed?" According to Asus, that answer is yes, as it has just unveiled a lightning-fast 610 Hz refresh rate monitor.

In fairness, professional gamers will always take speed over pretty visuals any day, so they're likely to be pleased by what's in store for them. Shown off at the ground floor of Computex 2025, in Taipei, Taiwan, Asus' new ROG Strix Ace XG248QSG is a 24.1-inch FHD monitor with that aforementioned 610 Hz refresh rate (while in OC mode) and a 0.1 ms response time. It also offers an input lag as low as 0.8 milliseconds.

It does this all with what Asus calls a 'Super TN' panel—an evolution of TN technology. If you don't know what a TN or Twisted Nematic monitor is (I wouldn't blame you), it's a type of monitor now mostly used by professional gamers as they offer super-fast refresh rates and response times, and formerly just the preserve of rubbish budget monitors.

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Picture quality isn't why people buy TN monitors, though, and this one comes with ELMB2 (Extreme Low Motion Blur), which helps reduce motion blur for a much cleaner view, and the panel is reportedly much brighter than previous TN monitors. As well as all of this, it is enhanced with ROG's AI technology with AI visual boosts, alongside dynamic shadow enhancements, and dynamic crosshair boosts.

This is all intended to make the monitor much easier to understand for professional-level gamers who need to make out and comprehend complex scenes in very short amounts of time. The difference between a particle effect or a grenade and a head popping out of cover can be the difference between a win and a loss.

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The Taipei 101 building and Taipei skyline in Taiwan. — (Image credit: Jacob Ridley)

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To put my cards on the table, I am not, in fact, a professional gamer, so this panel will likely never quite see its potential running The Sims 4 or Elden Ring at an uncapped fps on my home rig. However, it certainly has some super impressive stats.

To put it into context, MSI has just announced its own OLED 500 Hz monitor, and Samsung has just done the same, though both will cost a pretty penny. Asus hasn't given a price that we can find as yet for its 610 Hz panel, but it's unlikely to be a budget option, either.

We expect to see slowly increasing refresh rates across the board over the next few years, though getting above 500 Hz will still be a bit of a rarity, as will the graphics hardware capable of regularly doing so.

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James is a more recent PC gaming convert, often admiring graphics cards, cases, and motherboards from afar. It was not until 2019, after just finishing a degree in law and media, that they decided to throw out the last few years of education, build their PC, and start writing about gaming instead. In that time, he has covered the latest doodads, contraptions, and gismos, and loved every second of it. Hey, it’s better than writing case briefs.

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