10 Best 4K Gaming Monitors 2022 | UK Gaming Blogger Reviewed

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For those after a quick look, here is our Top 5:

1. Acer - Predator for £895.00
2. ASUS - ROG Strix for £699.00
3. HP - OMEN 27i for £389.00
4. BenQ - 28 Inch UHD 4K 1 ms HDR Eye-Care LED Gaming Monitor for £199.00
5. ASUS - ROG Swift for £849.00

For a more in-depth look at the comprehensive top 10 selection, make sure to read on to learn more about the different types of 4K gaming monitors available and understand how our ranking was determined.

This article's chosen EC site price listings are reflective of its publishing date.

1. Choose the Right Sized Monitor for Your Space
   
2. Look Out for High Dynamic Range
3. Choose a Monitor With a Response Time of 4ms or Higher
4. To Avoid Lag, Look for a Refresh Rate That's Around 60hz to 144hz
   
5. Select FreeSync or G-Sync Depending on Your Graphics Card
   

24 to 32 inches (diagonally, across) will be good enough for most desktop game players. However, you might want a 4K monitor to essentially replace your front room TV. In this case, there are a fair few 40- to 60-inch behemoth-sized 4K monitors on the market today, too. The bigger the screen means the further you can sit away from it.

It's important to consider the space you have available to set your new 4k monitor up in. There’s zero point in buying a 32-inch monitor that won’t fit in your room or on your desk or stand.

High Dynamic Range is a must if you’re looking to game on a large 4K monitor. HDR increases the range of colours available to each pixel, especially in light and dark areas. This means more contrast between objects and backgrounds when in shadow.

For gaming, this means it’s easier to identify objects or enemies in shadowy areas. Obviously, you could always just up the brightness for a similar effect. However, this can make other areas look unnaturally bright – ruining the immersion or your ability to see targets in brighter areas.

HDR monitors fix both of these issues, as well as generally taking advantage of your 4K monitor's pixel density for a superior bloom. It can also add depth and richness to your standard colours, even more so than 4K already does.

Make sure you can hear your game as well as you can see it with a budget gaming headset! 

You might think that the response time has something to do with your controller inputs, but it doesn't. A monitor's response time is how quickly pixels can switch colours. This is essential to creating the illusion of smooth movement. For most streaming services, though, 5 or even 10 milliseconds (ms) is barely noticeable.

However, precision gamers will notice anything above 5 or 7ms. A player with a slightly faster response time on their monitor will have a tiny but possibly critical advantage over opponents on slower screens. In online games with tiny margins of victory, that can make all the difference. For dedicated gamers, there are 4K monitors with a 1 or even 0.5-second ms.

If you're looking for more of a competitive edge, consider switching to a gaming mouse!

One of the biggest advantages of a 4K gaming monitor over a 4K smart TV, is the refresh rate. This is how fast the screen can insert new frames. Most films and TV today are made in 24-30hz, so many TVs in the UK have either a 50 or 60hz refresh rate.

The latest games pack so much information on the screen that 60hz monitors can’t always keep up, with noticeable lag in some cases. For the best high-end gaming experience possible, you’ll want a 4K monitor with somewhere between 120hz to 240hz display, with 144hz being a popular choice for professional gamers. Most people won't be able to notice any difference between 60hz and 120hz.

Adaptive-Sync tech is needed when you have a high refresh rate on your monitor. This can lead to the monitor outpacing your gaming machine with the number of frame changes – a very noticeable effect called ‘screen tear’.

Adaptive Sync ensures your monitor and graphics unit are always in step with each other. Sadly though, there are two types of Adaptive-Sync that only work with certain graphics cards, which are:

• G Sync for Nvidia graphics cards
• FreeSync for AMD graphics cards

Is there any other difference between the two competing 4K monitor functions? Aside from the technical details, not really. The average gamer, and even some experts, will not be able to tell them apart visually. Console users don’t need to worry as both PlayStation and Xbox work with both types of Adaptive Sync. Most newer graphics cards and screens tend to sync up automatically.

This ranking has been compiled by the writing team at mybest UK via careful evaluation of the points made in the buying guide and thorough research of each product and comparing multiple verified customer reviews across the EC sites used.

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