Is TN hard to stomach?

wunkley said:
The biggest problem / flaw with TN is the vertical colour shift but in the whole scheme of things it's not really a problem when gaming at all.
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Sadly it also varies a lot - both of my Swifts have been ok for vertical colour shift but my old BenQ XL2420T wasn't that great for it and I know a couple of people with the Swift IRL whose have quite noticeable darkening towards the top of the screen.
 
Depends on the panel in question. A lot of the older TN panels looked very washed out in comparison with a decent IPS but these days with the introduction of 8 bit TN panels things have changed.

I went from an IPS display to the TN Rog swift and colour wise there isn't much in it. The IPS had slightly more saturated looking colours but it also had a much lighter AG coating which i think has more to do with it then the panel type. The swifts blacks are better in my opinion as there is no IPS glow and the response times/high refresh rate are fantastic. It still has poor viewing angles (which doesn't bother me as i view it head on) and vertical colour shift (which is noticeable and slightly annoying) but if i had to pick i'd take the swift over my old IPS every time.
 
Jeps said:
Depends on the panel in question. A lot of the older TN panels looked very washed out in comparison with a decent IPS but these days with the introduction of 8 bit TN panels things have changed.

I went from an IPS display to the TN Rog swift and colour wise there isn't much in it. The IPS had slightly more saturated looking colours but it also had a much lighter AG coating which i think has more to do with it then the panel type. The swifts blacks are better in my opinion as there is no IPS glow and the response times/high refresh rate are fantastic. It still has poor viewing angles (which doesn't bother me as i view it head on) and vertical colour shift (which is noticeable and slightly annoying) but if i had to pick i'd take the swift over my old IPS every time.
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I've a TN Swift sitting beside the Dell U2913wm which is one of the better IPS panels and you can see the difference in saturation especially on mid-tones and black detail but the Swift is close enough it isn't objectionable - compared to my old XL2420T which really looked sickly beside the IPS.

I did have to knock the Swift down to 0.86 gamma in software to remove the bleached look though which if you are concerned about image quality has an impact on fidelity but for general desktop use and gaming that doesn't bother me and I have the IPS for movies/stuff where colour accuracy is more important.
 
I switched from IPS to TN then back to IPS again. The colour difference didnt really bother me much, the only thing that bothers me is the viewing angles, i have a big desk and i move around a lot on my chair. If your always sat right infront of your monitor then i dont see that been a problem and i would think about a TN for its other benefits.
 
Telecaster said:
Hmm, you're not selling it lol.
Are they gaming biased? I mean are they perhaps less of a wise choice if it's more of an all round monitor I'm after, rather than a specific gaming focussed requirement?
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If you want a 27" TN panel, gimme your IPS and you can have mine!!!
Aside from the fact that I'm still in 1080p, the blacks are naff, the viewing angle is awful and it's generally a horrid experience if ever you've seen a 1440p IPS monitor... more so if that monitor had Gsync!!
 
Depends, I don't find IPS all that great. And the TN swift is one of the best. Viewing angles don't bother me at all.

The known blb and glow on the IPS swift is horrific. My TN compared is like a black board. I suspect professional monitors, dell ultra sharp etc will be far better.

So for me I prefer TN for gaming and IPS for photo work.

60hz vs 120hz is night and day. I cannot use anything below 85fps now or it literraly makes me feel ill. Input lag 1-4ms at high refresh is in noticeable.
 
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Thanks for the input, more than I expected TBH.

I think given that a) I'm more on the casual gaming side these days, combined with b) Not playing any sort of super cereal FPS games, has me leaning towards sticking with IPS. My usage is probably 50/50 between gaming and browsing/movie/TV show watching.

I just wish 1440p IPS g-sync was a more common (and cheaper!) thing. I guess I just wait and see what comes or take the plunge on one of the 1440p non g-sync IPS screens...
 
Telecaster said:
Thanks for the input, more than I expected TBH.

I think given that a) I'm more on the casual gaming side these days, combined with b) Not playing any sort of super cereal FPS games, has me leaning towards sticking with IPS. My usage is probably 50/50 between gaming and browsing/movie/TV show watching.

I just wish 1440p IPS g-sync was a more common (and cheaper!) thing. I guess I just wait and see what comes or take the plunge on one of the 1440p non g-sync IPS screens...
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If you get a decent one the Dell U3415H is great .
 
Had a chuckle reading the past handful of posts. I get you guys love your TN's, I really do but don't make them out to be as good or even close to the quality of an IPS as that is just blatant nonsense.
 
It's down to your usage, IPS tend to have corner brightness / backlight problems (particularly wide-screen which would be the more likely IPS choice for me), as I tend to game in a dimmer room, having an IPS and a TN next to each other, the TN is much nicer to game on

Neither is perfect, but this claim that IPS is automatically better is not objectively true, its entirely subjective
 
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