AMD and AntGamer team up for world's first 1,000Hz gaming monitor launching in 2026

[midian182]

Forward-looking: The race to make the first consumer monitor able to hit 1,000Hz could be over next year. AntGamer, the Chinese firm that has already released a 750Hz display, says it worked with AMD on the 1,000Hz eSports monitor, which uses a Fast TN panel and features local dimming technology.

AntGamer's record-breaking gaming display was a topic of conversation at the Peak New Products and Ecological Co-creation conference on Friday, writes ITHome.

It was only a few weeks ago that the same company announced the Ant Esports ANT257PF. That monitor uses a G8.6-generation Fast TN panel from HKC Huike Display for its 1,920 x 1,080 resolution. It also offers a GtG response time of 0.8ms (0.5ms MPRT), 400 nits brightness with HDR content, and covers 95% of the DCI-P3 and 99% of the sRGB color gamuts. It has a Delta E of less than 2 and is VESA HDR 400 certified.

As for the 1,000Hz monitor, it will feature a local dimming backlighting system, which should improve contrast and visibility. It also uses Black Frame Insertion (BFI) technology. This is used to reduce motion blur by inserting black frames between the normal frames. It works best when framerates are over 120fps.

AntGamer's Weibo post about the announcement reveals that the company released a white paper with AMD on the 1,000Hz monitor. While most of the slides the company showed off were for the 750Hz Ant Esports ANT257PF, it's expected that many of the same technologies will end up in the faster model, incuding improvements to signal integrity, display cell construction, and materials.

The slides also show some games that support these blistering refresh rates, including Counter-Strike 2 and PUBG.

No word on how much the monitor will cost when it (hopefully) arrives in 2026. The 750Hz version is a pricey 7,999 yuan, or around $1,115, so a 1,000Hz display will likely be even more wallet-crushing.

While these types of monitors are focused on competitive eSports players, we are seeing more of them being announced. Back in January, Koorui, a tech and lifestyle brand that's a subsidiary of HKC, said that it was releasing the Koorui G7, a 750Hz monitor with similar specs to the ANT257PF – though with a 0.5ms response time. That monitor still hasn't made it to market, though.

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AMD and AntGamer team up for world's first 1,000Hz gaming monitor launching in 2026

 

[Megalomaniac]

Diminishing returns.

 

[godrilla]

Lol I am still rocking a 5+ year old CX oled at 4k 120hz. 240 hz at 4k on an oled would be ideal for me. I would not touch 1080p tn 1000 hz monitor even if was a pro gamer. Just found out that those new oled 750 hz monitors dual mode is at 720p ( yikes amd at what premium?) There are so much compromise imo for chasing motion clarity plautau. Compromise on resolution, resources ( hardware and power requirements) cost, some are recommending the use frame generation to fill up the remaining frames missing which adds latency and artifacting.
imo well balanced pc > chasing a plautau at maximum refresh rate with many compromises!

 

[GeoffreyA]

Latest trend: increasingly high refresh rates. Back when I was a youngster, 85 Hz CRTs were transparent to me. Human eyes must have got upgraded in the meantime.

 

[Neatfeatguy]

These extremely high refresh rate monitors are stupid. Even if you're rocking a 5090 and 5800X3D you're pushing maybe 500-600fps in a game such as Counter Strike.

Most other games you're lucky if you can get 60fps at 1080p with how they've been releasing lately....needing to have you run frame generation + dlss + anti-lag software to even reach those 60fps. These high refresh monitors are pointless, just selling gimicks.

 

[bandit8623]

These extremely high refresh rate monitors are stupid. Even if you're rocking a 5090 and 5800X3D you're pushing maybe 500-600fps in a game such as Counter Strike.

Most other games you're lucky if you can get 60fps at 1080p with how they've been releasing lately....needing to have you run frame generation + dlss + anti-lag software to even reach those 60fps. These high refresh monitors are pointless, just selling gimicks.

lcd as well. the gtg isnt good enough to handle the 1000frames.

 

[OortCloud]

Pointless marketing hype. Anybody who tells you they can detect anything above about 200hz (for most it's far less than even that) is talking out their back passage.

 

[Burty117]

Why are they bothering? It's an LCD TN panel, the pixel response times surely can't cope with 1000Hz?

It's a fairly pointless endeavour in my view as this product must be aimed at a very small niche of customers, and even they must be questioning if this is of any practical use.

 

[Mister_K]

Latest trend: increasingly high refresh rates. Back when I was a youngster, 85 Hz CRTs were transparent to me. Human eyes must have got upgraded in the meantime.

While some improvements are marginal, you still do feel them. Just like that one extra light to create an eye-light in actors eye in movies can have huge effect too. Holistically, you wouldn't think it does.

But yeh, line is somewhere, where, I don't know. I would think like others have said, its diminishing. From 30-60, 60 to 120, 120 to 240, 240 to 500, you need bigger leaps to really feel the difference. Now is the line 500, 1000 or more? F* knows. Sweet spot to me is 240.

 

[seeprime]

I think this is at the absurd level of refresh. 5090 cards can't even go higher than 400fps on 4k games.

 

[GeoffreyA]

While some improvements are marginal, you still do feel them. Just like that one extra light to create an eye-light in actors eye in movies can have huge effect too. Holistically, you wouldn't think it does.

But yeh, line is somewhere, where, I don't know. I would think like others have said, its diminishing. From 30-60, 60 to 120, 120 to 240, 240 to 500, you need bigger leaps to really feel the difference. Now is the line 500, 1000 or more? F* knows. Sweet spot to me is 240.

I agree there is improvement up to a point. Blind testing of a range of users would be needed to confirm what exactly is the limit. Who knows, perhaps the critical gains are between 60 and 120. But it's clear that gaming monitors are starting to misuse the Hz metric to make more money. I hope one of the tech outlets does a study on this.

 

[godrilla]

I think this is at the absurd level of refresh. 5090 cards can't even go higher than 400fps on 4k games.

But but but Nvidia markets multi frame gen as performance.

 

[bviktor]

Just as pointless as 8K displays. Not to mention there's zero GPU on the planet that could actually drive these. Unless you resort to your precious fake frames, of course. I fail to see the point.

In fact, I don't see the point going above 240 Hz. Much like no point in going above 4K either. Because we have this hard limit called the human eye.

We should've settled on these long ago. Focus on color accuracy, brightness, viewing angles, burn-in, stutter, ... all the existing REAL issues that plague displays, instead of this gimmick. I'm pretty sure this will die off at one point. You have to draw the line somewhere.

 

[Starfals]

Idk, almost everyone agrees that there is a big difference (not huge) between 240 and 500... so why wont there be some kind at double that? from 500 to 1000. I mean from 240, there is SURELY gonna be a big difference when you jump to 1000. You will notice it for sure, even if its not huge. Might be in the feel of the game, or how clear the motion looks. Has to be, but yeah. OLED + 500 is all ill ever need in my life, even if 1000hz display became 200 bucks. I don't see the point, when a single GPU here is 3000 euro, you know.. 5090. No, I don't care if its 2200 in ur country, its still 3k+ here. Insane price. Even if it was 2000, still nutts for a GPU that WONT push 1000 hz. Maybe if it did at 4K, that would be the holy grail and worthwhile. So maybe RTX 8090 might be worth the asking price, but with the current +20/30% increases... nah, no ty.

P.s. Even then, its just for Counterstrike LOLOL. Big freaking deal, and I play that game a lot and I dont care. If im first on the leaderboards often enough with a 144hz display, im sure 1k is an overkill.

 

[bandit8623]

Latest trend: increasingly high refresh rates. Back when I was a youngster, 85 Hz CRTs were transparent to me. Human eyes must have got upgraded in the meantime.

crt in practice looks smoother than sample and hold displays like lcd and oled.
I have a 480 hz oled. and you can see more updates per second for example moving mouse. it wont make you much better though unless you are a a top 10% reaction player

 

[Phylop]

Diminishing returns.

Demolished returns.

 

[Phylop]

Maybe if I get a 5090 I can run Mine Sweeper at 1000 FPS?

 

[Taroo]

I think the manufacturers focus too much on top performers for charts, and not enough on the best efficiency.
Huge, pricy GPUs, with pricy, well too fast screens...
Gaming is getting way and way energy-consuming with this way of thinking.

 

[Q Wales]

Would love to see a test of 240hz vs 500hz vs 1000hz monitors for a 100 people to see how many could tell the difference. Based purely on what I have read, I suspect very few would notice anything