And that's why they are more expensive.
The latest in computer monitors (apart from beasts like these about 50 inches from Acer ) have been Nvidia's G-Sync HDR screens . For now there are only two monitors that carry them, the ASUS PG27UQ and the Acer Predator X27 , and combine 4K resolutions with up to 144 Hz of refreshment ( although sometimes that implies loss of image quality ), G-Sync technology, compatibility with DisplayHDR 1000 in QLED panels and backlighting of 384 FALD zones. The people of PCPerspective have disassembled the ASUS monitor to see what was inside, and it seems that a certain component of Intel could be responsible for an increase in the price of the current G-Sync module.
The module carries an Intel FPGA , a highly programmable processor that can be dedicated to different applications. To be more specific, it is an Intel Altera Arria 10 GX 480. The problem with using an FPGA instead of an ASIC is that it increases the price of the module. The editors of Pcper have looked for the price of the matrix, and it seems that only that component already means 500 of the 2000 dollars that the monitors cost, approximately. On the other hand, they have also discovered that the G-Sync module now has mounted 3 GB of Micron DDR4 memory at 2400 MHz, a clear improvement over the 768 MB DRAM of the old module.
What does this tell us? It would be perfectly possible for other manufacturers to launch similar products for a much lower price just by removing the G-Sync module. This is nothing new, but what is new is knowing where the extra cost of the new Nvidia modules comes from.
