The ASUS VG245H is a 1080p monitor with a TN panel which is great for gaming, but only decent for mixed usage. It has mediocre picture quality as blacks appear gray in a dark room, and the viewing angle is very bad so the sides of the screen look washed out when viewed from up close. The 75Hz refresh rate makes it feel a bit more responsive than other 60Hz monitors for gaming.
The ASUS VG245H is a decent monitor for mixed usage. It can get bright to be used in an average lit office and its response time will please most gamers. However, it does not support HDR and it is not good for use in a dark room.
Decent monitor for office use. Good resolution support, but poor viewing angles so if two people are looking at the monitor the one looking from the side does experience a degraded picture quality. Fortunately, the ergonomics are excellent so you can simply rotate it to accommodate for your colleague. Its decent brightness allows you to place it in average lit-environments and the gray uniformity will not cause you many issues when browsing the web.
This monitor is a gaming monitor and it performs very well as such. It has a fast response time, low input lag and supports FreeSync which will help you avoid tearing in very demanding graphics games. It is a monitor that gamers will enjoy.
The multimedia performance of this monitor is decent. It supports the most common resolution of 1080p and has a very low input lag that makes it feel very responsive. Reflection handling is very good, but the viewing angles are good only if you are directly in from of the monitor and this might disturb some.
The media creation of this monitor is decent. It supports the most common resolution of 1080p which is basic for media creation. It has excellent ergonomics and low input lag but will not get too bright to be suitable for a very bright environment. On the other hand, the colors are very accurate and this is great for media editing.
The ASUS VG245H doesn't support HDR and does not have local dimming or wide color gamut. This is common for most monitors. For a monitor that supports HDR, you should look for more high-end ones like the Samsung CHG70.
The range of ergonomic adjustments is excellent. You can adjust the monitor to almost any position you want to match your working preferences so that you have a comfortable setup.
The back of the monitor is plastic with a nice V pattern that allows for the vents to spread evenly across the height and width of the screen. If you want to detach the stand to VESA mount the monitor, remove the base, then remove the screws on the hinge and remove the hinge.
The ASUS VG245H does not have a local dimming feature. The video is for reference only.
Decent SDR brightness. The screen sustains the brightness at almost all window sizes except when there are small highlights that look dimmer.
HDR is not supported.
The horizontal viewing angles are poor. Blacks wash out first as soon as you move from the center axis and colors lose accuracy right after. Finally as you move away from the center the brightness starts to diminish.
The vertical viewing angles are bad. When you look from above the whole image has changed. Blacks have faded, colors have shifted and the brightness is gone. The situation does not look any better if you look at the monitor from below. This is typical behavior of TN panels.
The gray uniformity is decent, but the clouding is evenly spread throughout the screen and you will probably not observe a dirty screen effect when browsing the net. In our image where the edges look darker, it is due the to the poor viewing angles and not due to the gray uniformity.
Remarkable out of the box accuracy for the Asus VG245H. The Racing Mode was the best out of the box picture mode and gave us very low white balance dE and color dE values, and a Gamma of 2.23 which is very close to our target of 2.2. Therefore most people will not notice any color inaccuracy with the out-of-the-box settings of the monitor.
Excellent color accuracy was obtained after the calibration. The calibration was done on the Racing Mode, even though this mode lacks control over the 'Saturation' setting and the 'Skin tone' setting, which for most people should not be very useful. After the calibration, the White Balance dE and the Color dE were reduced further, so it is highly unlikely that at these levels anyone will be able to notice any inaccuracies, and the Gamma was lowered to 2.16 which is still close to our 2.2 target.
You can download our ICC profile calibration here.
This ASUS VG245HE has a great color gamut. It covers almost all of the s.RGB color space and about 70% of the Adobe RGB color space. You should have no problem with the colors of this monitor during most uses, but it isn't enough to edit colors in the Adobe RGB color space.
HDR is not supported.
HDR is not supported.
Perfect score on our image retention test for the ASUS VG245H as no retention was measured on our image analysis.
The reflection handling of the ASUS VG245H is very good. The light matte filter diffuses reflections across the screen. This technique reduces their intensity, but increases the size of direct reflections, and might be an issue in very bright rooms.
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The response time on the VG245H is excellent. This results in very little blur around fast-moving objects, which is great for gaming. The Trace Free 80 option is the most balanced and provides the best response time without adding any significant overshoot.
The Asus VG245H has a native refresh rate of 75Hz and this is good for most usages including gaming. It supports variable refresh rate through the FreeSync implementation and this is great for gamers.
Update 01/15/2019: Unfortunately, the VG245H is not compatible with NVIDIA's FreeSync implementation, as it does not have a DisplayPort connection.
Non-native resolution tested: 1280 x 1024
Excellent low input lag on this ASUS VG245H. Unfortunately most resolutions cannot be displayed at 75Hz, only 1080p, 1280 x 1024 and a few others can. This is usually not a problem since most graphics cards will just upscale to 1080p without you even knowing.
The Asus VG245H monitor has the very common FHD 1080p as native resolution and 24" size, thus resulting in the usual 92 PPI pixel density.