There is a budding market for small 1440p gaming monitors. At least that’s what I’m told. AOC has announced that it will bring to market one such small 23.8-inch 1440p screen, the Q24G2A/BK, in Europe. The reason is that there is an amazing demand for such things.
Sometimes resolutions and screen sizes are too much. There are extremes. Having a 4K panel on a 55 inch panel is ridiculous for desktop PC gamers. Television at some distance away is a different story. The same applies to very small 4K monitors. This looks very sharp, but it wastes a bit of the graphics card power needed to drive that number of pixels.
The same is true for 1440p monitors under 24 inches. At that point, just buy a 1080p panel and run it at a much faster refresh rate, or buy a bigger screen. But no, AOC told me there’s a market for that kind of high-pixel-density screen built specifically for gaming, and it’s nothing new to the scene.
The existing market for this kind was primarily in Asia, with AOC saying it sells “thousands of these” in China.
I don’t know the details about the North American market, but a quick Google search shows that it hasn’t really landed in the US or Canada.
The screen uses a 23.8-inch IPS panel with 1440p resolution and a tight pixel density of 123 PPI. For the record, the 27-inch 1440p panel is around 108 PPI, so this compact screen is pretty sharp. Designed for gaming, it comes with a 165Hz refresh rate, but with a slightly slower response time at 4ms GtG. It’s compatible with G-Sync and at least offers Adaptive Sync.
In Europe, this monitor will set you back €249. That means a bigger 1440p gaming monitor will definitely cost more. And it should go on sale soon.
Yeah, this is a niche product for a very specific type of gamer who loves getting their eyeballs as close to the action as possible. very Specific needs, I salute you.
