Which do you use to reference response time?

[Rik1254]

I'm looking at monitors online and I've noticed that they're displaying 2 response time figures (one on/off and one GTG), which do we typically reference when talking about monitors?

 

[RidingTheFlow]

Any kind of, there is no standard/or "police" to enforce. Generally manufacturer can pick any kind of transition to refer to, and you bet they mostly pick the best ones - exploiting the fact that people hardly have proper understanding of such complex subject and mostly just think "lower number is better".

E.g. Acer Z35 listed as "response time 4ms G2G" while on certain transitions (e.g. from black) its over 50ms and looks horrible.

Your best bet to look for response graphs/tables, for examples ones that TFTcentral makes.

 

[Rik1254]

Thanks for the information, but that doesn't really answer the question....Although by you referencing GTG, I'll assume that's what most people refer too.

 

[Rroff]

Yeah I second looking at TFTCentral for that information in any kind of useful context - the published figures are basically meaningless for instance one of my monitors is the Dell U2913WM which on paper looks quite bad but if you look at the TFT Central tests it does a lot better than most that have better on paper stats i.e. it has 8ms G2G but blows most 2-4ms G2G panels out the water as it is consistently around that rather than using the best possible transition time for its rated stats and only falls down a little bit on input latency - but nothing too terrible in gaming mode.

 

[RidingTheFlow]

Thanks for the information, but that doesn't really answer the question....Although by you referencing GTG, I'll assume that's what most people refer too.

Most people refer to whatever number manufacturer states in their spec.

And manufacturers generally just state "response time X", without stating what exactly they mean.