{"id":19409,"date":"2022-07-19T19:07:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/alienware-debuts-480-hz-refresh-rate-with-new-17-inch-laptops\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T19:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:07:40","slug":"alienware-debuts-480-hz-refresh-rate-with-new-17-inch-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/alienware-debuts-480-hz-refresh-rate-with-new-17-inch-laptops\/","title":{"rendered":"Alienware debuts 480 Hz refresh rate with new 17-inch laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Alienware x17 R2 laptop.<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- cache hit 36:single\/related:c06639d681360e0bd3680dda7b15185d --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>PC display speeds are about to go up.  Alienware&#8217;s updated m17 R5 and x17 R2, a pair of 17.3-inch gaming laptops, will each include the option for 480 Hz displays\u2014about 33 percent faster than the previous top speed of 360 Hz.<\/p>\n<p>As of publication time, the laptops&#8217; 480 Hz options aren&#8217;t available for purchase, but a spokesperson for Alienware told Ars that they should be available online soon.<\/p>\n<p>The 480 Hz displays have a resolution of 1920\u00d71080 and a gray-to-gray response time of 3 ms.  In its announcement, Alienware promised &#8220;animation smoothness for easier target tracking, ghosting reduction which minimizes distracting effects, and lower system latency, making it easier for you to spot other players earlier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The laptops&#8217; intended audience is hardcore gamers who want to keep up with pro esports players.  Alienware didn&#8217;t disclose what company is making its 480 Hz panels, but we&#8217;ve known such speed was coming from companies like AU Optronics for a few months.  We&#8217;re still waiting for a 500 Hz desktop monitor from Asus, but in the meantime, Alienware&#8217;s laptops boast the highest speed among consumer displays.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the boost will be less obvious if you&#8217;re used to 360 Hz, for example, while your experience should be markedly better if you&#8217;re graduating from 60 Hz.  We haven&#8217;t tried out Alienware&#8217;s 480 Hz laptops in person but can confirm that 360 Hz screens have shown noticeable visual improvements, especially when it comes to fast action, like rapidly scrolling text.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\">\n    <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>To fully reap the benefits of 480 Hz, you&#8217;ll also have to be running content that can play at 480 frames per second with the system&#8217;s hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Alienware&#8217;s m17 R5 comes with up to an AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT (12GB GDDR6, up to 175 W) or Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (16GB GDDR6, up to 155 W and 1,410 MHz), an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU (eight cores) , 16 threads, up to 4.9 GHz), 64GB of DDR5-4800 memory, and 4TB of SSD storage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image shortcode-img full-width\" style=\"width:980px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Alienware m17 R5 gaming laptop. \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Alienware-m17-R5-with-AW920H-980x654.jpeg?resize=980%2C654&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"980\" height=\"654\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Alienware m17 R5 gaming laptop. <\/div>\n<p>alienware<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The x17 R2, meanwhile, is focused on being Alienware&#8217;s thinnest 17-inch-class laptop.  It has up to an Intel Core i9-12900HK (14 cores, 20 threads, up to 5 GHz), an Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti (16GB) GPU, 64GB of DDR5-4800 memory, and 4TB storage.<\/p>\n<p>The displays are specced to hit up to 300 nits of brightness and cover 100 percent of sRGB.<\/p>\n<p>They also support adaptive sync via AMD FreeSync Premium and Nvidia G-Sync, plus Nvidia Advanced Optimus, which lets the system switch between integrated and discrete graphics as needed and uses &#8220;a hardware-based dynamic display switch that allows GeForce GPUs to directly control the display,&#8221; instead of the integrated graphics only, according to Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p>The 480 Hz screens will carry a $300 premium over the standard configurations of the laptops, which have 165 Hz displays.<\/p>\n<p>Both laptops will also come with up to 4K resolution displays, but those will max out at a 120 Hz refresh rate and 3 ms response time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>enlarge \/ Alienware x17 R2 laptop. PC display speeds are about to go up. Alienware&#8217;s updated m17 R5 and x17 R2, a pair of 17.3-inch gaming laptops, will each include the option for 480 Hz displays\u2014about 33 percent faster than the previous top speed of 360 Hz. As of publication time, the laptops&#8217; 480 Hz &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/alienware-debuts-480-hz-refresh-rate-with-new-17-inch-laptops\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alienware debuts 480 Hz refresh rate with new 17-inch laptops<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19268,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/alienware-put-480hz-refresh-rate-screens-in-its-latest-17-inch-monsters\/","url_meta":{"origin":19409,"position":0},"title":"Alienware put 480Hz refresh rate screens in its latest 17-inch monsters","date":"July 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Not content with settling for meeting the industry's best refresh rates in a laptop at an already high 360Hz, Alienware is going for broke with 480Hz screens (3ms, 300-nit, 100 percent sRGB color gamut) in the M17 R5 and X17 R2. 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