Acer Predator X35 Date De Sortie

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The Acer Predator X35 is a cost-no-object flagship production that delivers every flake of the operation and quality expected at this cost. Information technology offers moving picture quality that's second to none with gaming performance to match.

Pros

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Stunning image
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512-zone FALD backlight
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1,000 nits effulgence with HDR
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Accurate colour
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200Hz refresh charge per unit
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Precious stone-like build quality

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Features and Specifications

When shopping for a gaming monitor (opens in new tab), you're usually express by budget. But then there are those price-is-no-object hardware that nosotros all aspire to. A couple that come to heed are the Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ (opens in new tab) and the Acer Predator X27 (opens in new tab), some of which are the all-time gaming monitors (opens in new tab) and have owned the desktop gaming feel with phenomenal picture quality and a massive feature list since they launched. Until now that is. Say hullo to the Acer Predator X35 ($two,437 at the fourth dimension of writing).

The Predator X35 isn't just another ultra-wide, QHD (opens in new tab)curved gaming monitor though. Acer started out with a VA (opens in new tab)panel, unlike most high-speed ultra-wides which are IPS-based. And so, it installed a total-array local dimming (FALD) backlight with 512 zones. Aside from the professional-grade Asus ProArt PA32UCX (opens in new tab), no other monitor sports more dimming zones. Ultimately, yous get a screen with image quality and gaming performance that'south nearly incommunicable to trounce.

Acer Predator X35 Specifications

Console Type & Backlight	VA / W-LED, FALD with 512 zones
Screen Size, Aspect Ratio & Curve Radius	35 inches / 21:9; Curve radius: 1800mm
Max Resolution & Refresh Rate	3440x1440 @ 180Hz; 200Hz with overclock; G-Sync Ultimate range: 24-200Hz
Native Colour Depth & Gamut	10-bit (8-scrap+FRC) / DCI-P3, HDR10, DisplayHDR 1000
Response Fourth dimension (GTG)	2ms
Effulgence	SDR: 600 nits; HDR: 1,000 nits
Contrast Ratio	2500:i
Speakers	2x 4w
Video Inputs	1x DisplayPort 1.4; 1x HDMI 2.0
Audio	3.5mm headphone output
USB three.0	1x up, 3x down
Ability Consumption	64w, brightness @ 200 nits
Panel Dimensions	32.eight x 17.5-22.5 x 12.2 inches (833 x 445-572 x 310mm)
Console Thickness	v.6 inches (142mm)
Bezel Width	Top/sides: 0.35 inch (9mm), Bottom: 0.95 inch (24mm)
Weight	29.5 pounds (thirteen.4kg)
Warranty	three years

Acer runs the panel at a native 180Hz with a 200Hz overclock available. It has Yard-Sync Ultimate (opens in new tab), meaning it runs the latest silicon from Nvidia and supports HDR (opens in new tab)with a backlight striking ane,000 nits brightness. G-Sync works down to a depression refresh rate of 24Hz, so y'all can wait tear-free gaming even with low

With that chiliad-nit backlight comes VESA DisplayHDR 1000 certification and HDR10 support. Though information technology's not a 4K gaming monitor (opens in new tab), pixel density is suffifiently high at 106 pixels per inch (ppi), so y'all can expect sharp item besides. Getting excited yet?

Unpacking and Accessories

The Predator X35 arrives fully assembled in a huge carton. All you have to do is elevator it out past the solidly integrated handle and plug it in. Merely at most xxx pounds, that'll require a bit of strength, or an extra fix of hands to aid out.

Cables include IEC power, DisplayPort and USB. A beefy metallic bracket takes care of the need for a 100mm VESA mount, and a pocket-size clip attaches to the upright for wire management.

Production 360

Like any big ultra-wide monitor, the X35 commands a skillful amount of desktop existent estate. With the stand, it's virtually three anxiety across and 1 foot deep. The stand up is all-metal and looks slender just is extremely solid. There isn't even a trace of slop or wobble. Total ergonomics are included with a 5-inch meridian adjustment, 45-degree swivel to either side and a 35-degree tilt. The pivot is a big stack of discs set between the base and upright that ensures polish and business firm move. Build quality is nigh perfect.

From the height, you can see the 1800R curvature clearly. It provides a swell sense of immersion without calling attention to itself in more mundane apps, similar Microsoft Word or Excel (opens in new tab). The side profile is quite chunky by necessity. The on-screen display (OSD) controls are arrayed on the right side with three function keys, a ability toggle and a joystick. Everything moves and clicks with the premium experience that befits a flagship product.

In the back, you lot can see the RGB lighting. Y'all can set the lights to change according to the monitor's paradigm or be fix to react to music using software available from Acer all of which you tin control from the OSD.

Likewise effectually back are a some molded-in styling cues and the Predator logo emblazoned on the upright. That sits below a handle, which we beloved and wish every estimator monitor had.

The input console is a minimalist affair with one HDMI 2.0 and one DisplayPort 1.4. You also get a iii.5mm headphone output and USB 3.0 ports; 1 upstream and 3 down.

Stereo speakers are congenital-in with four watts of power and are a polite presentation that focuses on the upper midrange. Volume is reasonable, and they play without audible distortion.

OSD Features

The OSD is a vast assortment of menus and choices; well-organized and intuitive. In that location are many paradigm options not only for calibration, simply for manipulation of the zone dimming. Gaming features are too present in the grade of overclock, overdrive and aiming points.

With well-nigh 600 nits available for regular content in SDR mode, you'll likely exist turning downwards the backlight to a more reasonable 200 nits. You lot can do that in the Picture menu, which besides features a depression blue light, dark boost for added shadow detail and two zone dimming options. The first addresses its aggressiveness. The Gaming setting strikes a good balance between increased contrast and detail-rendering. Two other options create deeper blacks but clip some elements. If yous prefer to leave the dimming off, that option is available too. The X35 likewise features auto brightness and auto black level options that vary those thresholds according to content.

The color menu includes v gamma (opens in new tab)presets and sRGB color gamut options for SDR content and component signal formats. Nosotros advise turning SDR Colors sRGB on for the almost accurate image with SDR content.

HDR (opens in new tab)content automatically activates the X35's entire native gamut, which is effectually lxxx% of DCI-P3. There are two colour temp presets, plus a user way with very precise RGB sliders. However, getting everything to line up during calibration was a balancing act, so nosotros wish there were a two-indicate command.

Overdrive, with two different levels, tin be turned on or off in the Gaming carte. The overclock characteristic runs the X35 up to 200Hz from its native 180Hz refresh charge per unit. We had no trouble running at 200Hz during our time with the X35.

Finally, there are 3 aiming points bachelor for those who demand a bit of frag assist. One slight surprise is that in that location's no ULMB (ultra-low motility blur). While we've never seen a need for it, some users insist it provides lower input lag than Thousand-Sync or FreeSync (opens in new tab). We've been unable to prove that through testing.

Setup and Calibration

The X35 has practiced out-of-box accuracy just nosotros were able to improve things with a few adjustments.

If you lot're running SDR content you tin can practice a full calibration, and if you're playing HDR, the monitor makes the color temp presets and RGB sliders available. We found the same grayscale settings worked for both modes. SDR gamma runs a bit light out of the box, but the available presets are as well far apart to achieve an ideal 2.2 track. We had to decide between boilerplate values of 2.09 or 2.36. We went with the latter because it provided better colour saturation and greater image depth. For SDR color, we turned the sRGB manner on, but if yous prefer a more saturated presentation, you can use the DCI-P3 gamut for whatsoever type of content.

Here are the settings we used during testing:

Picture Way	User
Brightness 200 nits	36
Brightness 120 nits	twenty
Effulgence 100 nits	17
Effulgence 80 nits	xiii
SDR Colors sRGB	On
Dissimilarity	50
Gamma	+0.iii
Colour Temp User	Ruby-red 97, Green 96, Blue 100

Gaming and Easily-on

After calibrating the X35, we turned the variable backlight pick on and set it to Gaming. This provided a nice balance of dynamic dissimilarity that enhanced all areas of the image. Shadow detail was strong and crisp, all the same blacks were very deep similar they should be. Highlights popped without beingness harsh or overblown. Whether viewing photos in Windows or playing a game with this FALD backlight, the SDR image was far beyond what's possible from a monitor with an edge-array backlight. We plant that turning upwardly the effulgence made the picture popular even more than without becoming fatiguing to look at. That'due south the zone-dimming at work. Though we stuck to sRGB for well-nigh of our SDR gaming, the actress available color will be attractive to some users. To achieve this, just plough SDR Colors sRGB off.

During our time exploring the world of Tomb Raider, we noticed the overdrive produced a little blackness ghosting when set to Extreme. This just occurred in scenes with a lot of straight lines, like buildings and other structures. Natural settings, like forests and mountain areas, didn't show the antiquity as much. With so much dissimilarity and depth in the image, nosotros could play for hours without realizing it. The X35 is a cracking candidate for a countdown timer; you'll need a reminder to get back to work!

HDR gaming was a revelation on this monitor. There's no substitute for dimming zones. The more than the meliorate, and the X35 has 512. Simply even though the X35 has more than dimming zones than the Predator X27 and ROG Swift PG27UQ, the bodily size of each zone, or the zone density, is the aforementioned because the X35 has a larger total screen area. The end event is a picture as good equally those two smaller 27-inch monitors but spread out over a wider infinite and curved. The effect provoked many positive adjectives and expressions of amazement.

Telephone call of Duty: WWII has several night missions that test a display's ability to depict shadow details. We used the game's menu to adjust the overall brightness, white point and black bespeak using the provided test patterns. The experience moved from fun to lifelike. Patterns became textures, and the shape of objects was much clearer and more than three-dimensional. The extended color gamut just added to the effect. At that place is no question that HDR and enhanced color are the future of gaming. Information technology's hard to imagine better.

Though nosotros have 200Hz available, neither game could quite reach that figure with item levels at maximum. While casual players volition see no benefit in reducing detail for higher speeds, competitive users may desire to notice a balance that affords them the full 200 frames per second (fps). In either case, we found motion blur to be non-existent and command response instantaneous. We can't imagine a situation where input lag will be perceived past any human player. The Predator X35 is the nigh fun we've had with whatsoever gaming monitor reviewed at Tom'due south Hardware.

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Christian Eberle is a Contributing Editor for Tom's Hardware US. He's a veteran reviewer of A/Five equipment, specializing in monitors.