At what point does the refresh rate of a gaming monitor reach diminishing returns, or otherwise become inconsequential? Ask any monitor maker and they’ll tell you, ‘Get out of here with such silly questions, gaming peasant!’. Okay, they probably wouldn’t be as crass in their answer, but the latest evidence that monitor makers have no intention of slowing down is AOC’s new Agon Pro AG276KF display.
The AG276KF is a display with a 27-inch ‘Fast IPS’ panel sporting a 1920×1080 resolution and insanely quick 520Hz refresh rate. We checked the math (extensively) and that’s more than four times as high as 120Hz, over three times higher than 144Hz, and and more than twice as fast as 240Hz. Seriously, the numbers check out.
“For competitive gamers, particularly in fast-paced FPS titles such as Counter-Strike 2 or Valorant, the 520Hz refresh rate of the AG276FK translates to one frame being displayed every 1.92 milliseconds. This unprecedented level of visual feedback allows players to track moving targets with exceptional clarity, making micro-adjustments that can mean the difference between victory and defeat,” AOC explains.
Outside of the blistering refresh rate, the AG276FK features a 1ms gray-to-gray (GtG) response time, adaptive sync support (48-240Hz via HDMI 2.0 and 48-520Hz via DisplayPort 1.4), 94.4% coverage of the DCI-P3 color space (94.3% of Adobe RGB and 119.8% of sRGB), a 400 nits brightness rating, and DisplayHDR 400 certification.
This comes wrapped in a “3-sided frameless” design with RGB lighting. Other features include a pair of built-in 5W speakers, a Kensington Lock, two HDMI 2.0 inputs, two DisplayPort 1.4 inputs, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports (plus an upstream port), and a 3.5mm headphone jack.