The best gaming monitors

polygon.com:

Buying a gaming monitor is a big decision. It’s the screen that you’ll be gazing at for hours at a time, over the course of (hopefully) many years of happy ownership. You owe it to yourself to get it right. It’s not just about finding the right size and picture resolution, but ideally making sure it has a design you like, as well as enough ports and features to let you get the most out of your gaming PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, and handheld PCs like the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally.

As with most gaming-adjacent components, you can get involved in the process of selecting the perfect monitor, absorbing a host of acronyms and understanding the small yet very important ways some of them differ — or you can let us do the work of sorting out which models currently offer the best performance at the best price. Knowing there are all kinds of gamers out there, our guide includes monitors at varying price ranges and with different resolutions and capabilities.

Even though many gamers today use consoles and PC hardware that support high resolutions, like 1440p (also referred to as QHD) or 4K, 1080p is still a popular choice for several reasons. For one, rendering games at 1080p is much less taxing on systems. Depending on what consoles or components you intend to connect to your monitor, 1080p might be the best-performing option (and in the case of the Nintendo Switch, 1080p is the maximum resolution supported in docked mode).

Lastly, unless your eyes have been spoiled by the sharpness offered by QHD or 4K, 1080p still looks acceptably sharp on smaller displays (the bigger your 1080p screen, the more pixelated the picture will appear).

There are more affordable options out there, but you can’t go wrong with the 27-inch Asus TUF