Last week, ASUS announced the ROG Strix XG248Q FreeSync gaming monitor.

What makes this monitor different from other 240Hz monitors is that this uses a 23.8″ panel instead of a 24.5″ panel (of the XG258Q). Reportedly, the panel is optimized for 240 Hz operation unlike the 24.5″ panels. The 24.5″ panels were not originally manufactured with 240 Hz in mind and had to be tuned by monitor manufacturers to 240 Hz operation.

This monitor has ASUS ELMB (Extreme Low Motion Blur), a motion blur reduction feature similar to NVIDIA ULMB.

It also supports variable refresh rate (VRR) via VESA Adaptive-Sync. This is similar to AMD FreeSync (i.e. not certified by AMD). The benefits of FreeSync can be seen in this FreeSync animation demo.