AOC Agon Pro AGP257FT hits 1,000Hz, overclocks to 1,050Hz, launches next year

[Alfonso Maruccia]

Gotta Go Hz: Popular gaming monitor brands are rushing to achieve the fastest refresh rate they can, even though almost no one has enough GPU power to sustain it. Now, AOC is resorting to overclocking to push even beyond an already impossibly fast 1,000Hz refresh rate.

AOC introduced the AGP257FT monitor earlier this year. Now, the Taiwanese manufacturer is announcing that its first foray into the extremely high-refresh-rate market will arrive in stores starting next year. AOC monitors are usually cheaper than the competition, but we bet a 1,000Hz display is still going to cost a lot.

The AOC Agon Pro AGP257FT is a 25-inch Full HD IPS gaming monitor capable of reaching an ultra-fast 1,000Hz refresh rate. Even better, AOC says the monitor supports overclocking up to 1,050Hz. A 1,000Hz display can allegedly compete with the motion clarity of obsolete CRT monitors, putting out a new video frame every millisecond.

Additional specs include a 0.1ms response time (0.3ms GtG), Motion Blur Reduction Plus technology for minimizing perceived blur during rapid movements, and basic HDR support with VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification. The monitor is also G-Sync Compatible, providing a potential solution to stuttering and screen tearing with Nvidia GPUs.

Connectivity options include two HDMI 2.1 ports, one DisplayPort 2.1 port, and USB 3.2, along with an audio output. Furthermore, the display includes a "hardware-based" Low Blue Light solution designed to reduce potentially harmful blue-light emissions directly at the backlight source. The TÜV Rheinland-certified Circular Polarization technology should provide more natural lighting while reducing glare and eye fatigue.

AOC said the AGP257FT has been designed for professional esports competitions and gamers with a very particular focus on video performance. Curiously enough, the company states that its new monitor is compatible with Windows 8.1 through Windows 11 – a specification we don't see listed very often on next-generation monitor models.

Is an overclocked 1,000Hz monitor going to provide a real competitive advantage to esports professionals and online players? Manufacturers are investing heavily in this extreme-performance trend, asking gamers to spend more to get better at their favorite (shooting) pastime.

Besides competitive titles with unlocked frame rates and some incredibly well-optimized graphics engines such as id Tech 7, very few popular titles are going to benefit from such an extreme refresh rate. Most definitely, the AGP257FT is a gaming monitor that few gamers will be able to take full advantage of for years to come.

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AOC Agon Pro AGP257FT hits 1,000Hz, overclocks to 1,050Hz, launches next year

 

[yRaz]

Even for a squirrel on Adderall, 500hz is about the practical limit. That's assuming everyone in the lobby has a sub 2ms ping. You're also heavily CPU limited after around 300 FPS. So unless we end up quantum entangled internet and chips that have V-cache with enough dimensions to require strong theory, there really isn't any point at all in these displays. Nice to have but noone will ever actually use this. The argument for 360hz displays was hard enough to make....

Also, the idea that this is comparable to CRTs is fubar with LCD tech. CRTs used persistence of vision. they're still relying on liquid crystals to change states. Maybe if this was OLED or even MicroLED, but it's not.

 

[Kirby1]

Overclocking for an extra 50hz seems pretty pointless...

 

[Anton Longshot]

Personally I'm unconvinced that in a double-blind test subjects can see the difference between 500 and 250 - and even if some can they'd be rare individuals
So a market must be totally PR-based or lose money

Hell I can hardly see the difference between 60 and 75 on the monitors I have - but what do I know?

Also, there's probably a difference between looking at a screen and looking at an area on that same screen.
Which opens up more possibilities than I'm willing to type right now.

 

[scoffer]

These buffoons must live in cloud cuckoo land. Not enough GPU power to sustain it apparently -and before too long, nobody (as in a normal working joe) will be able to afford a decent GPU anyway.

 

[James321]

Even 5090 struggle to get over 100+ fps in the latest games. Unless you play only esport or decades old games this monitor and other beyond 240hz is pretty pointless.

 

[godrilla]

Even 5090 struggle to get over 100+ fps in the latest games. Unless you play only esport or decades old games this monitor and other beyond 240hz is pretty pointless.

Also even the best cpu 9850x3d with a 5090 at 720p on average can't hit 250 fps and mins as low as 165 fps. I guess the only way to achieve motion clarity is lower the image quality via compromised visual detail, latency, upscaling frame generation etc!
Who doesn't want clear motion at potato graphics?

@ maximum power to not be a noob!

That's a $10,000 street value today and climbing.

 

[Axeia]

Hell I can hardly see the difference between 60 and 75 on the monitors I have - but what do I know?

That used to make such a huge difference for me back in the CRT days. 60Hz after a few hours without breaks would lead to extremely bloodshot eyes for me. 75 would reduce it by a lot, and 90 pretty much resolved the issue.

On LCD I can barely tell the difference between 60 and higher. I guess these monitors will be for whenever Nvidia gives 10x fake frames.