The 4 Best 1080p Monitors - Summer 2024 Reviews

The best monitor with a 1080p resolution we've tested is the Dell Alienware AW2523HF. It has a 25-inch screen and a fast 360Hz refresh rate, which is great even for competitive gaming, making it the best 1080p gaming monitor. It has a few gaming features, like VRR support, a dark stabilizer to help you see your opponents better in dark areas, and different crosshairs to give you a competitive advantage in FPS games. However, it lacks a backlight strobing feature. It also has an incredible response time, so fast-moving objects look sharp, even at lower refresh rates.

Besides its impressive gaming performance, it also delivers good picture quality with accurate colors, wide viewing angles, and great peak brightness, meaning it looks good in well-lit rooms. This monitor often goes on sale, but if you have trouble finding it available, consider the Sony INZONE M3, which is another great gaming monitor but with a lower 240Hz refresh rate.

If you have an NVIDIA graphics card that you want to take full advantage of and are willing to spend considerably more, it's better to get a native G-SYNC monitor like the Dell Alienware AW2524H. It's higher-end than the Dell Alienware AW2523HF as it has a faster 500Hz refresh rate, but the main benefit of getting the AW2524H is that it has features you can only use with an NVIDIA graphics card. These include variable overdrive to improve motion handling based on the refresh rate and NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer to measure the latency of each source in your setup, helping identify which causes the most delay.

Besides those extra features, this monitor offers impressive gaming performance with a fast response time at any refresh rate, especially at its max refresh rate, so there's minimal motion blur. Unlike the AW2523HF, it has a backlight strobing feature to reduce persistence blur, but it doesn't work at the same time as VRR.

If you want to save money and don't mind getting something with a lower refresh rate, check out a budget model like the ViewSonic XG2431. There are trade-offs for getting something cheaper, and in this case, the ViewSonic has a lower 240Hz refresh rate than the Dell Alienware AW2524H. It doesn't have native G-SYNC support like the Dell either, but it's still G-SYNC compatible and has FreeSync support, so its VRR support works with any type of graphics card.

This monitor is better than other budget-friendly monitors because of its versatile backlight strobing feature to reduce persistence blur. You can adjust the backlight strobing flicker to your liking, which isn't something all monitors can do. However, like many monitors, this feature doesn't work simultaneously with VRR. Besides that, it has a fast response time and other useful gaming features, like black stabilization, so it's easier to see your opponents in dark scenes.

If you want a cheap and basic monitor with a 1080p resolution, there are a few good options with a 144Hz refresh rate, like the ASUS TUF Gaming VG249Q1A, and you can even overclock its 144Hz native refresh rate to 165Hz. While this isn't as good for competitive gaming as the ViewSonic XG2431, it's still very good for PC gaming, especially if you're on a limited budget and are building your first gaming setup. It has incredible motion handling, and fast-moving objects look fairly crisp, even at lower refresh rates. Like the ViewSonic, it also includes a backlight strobing feature to reduce persistence blur, but it isn't as customizable.

It's rather limited in features, which is expected of a cheap gaming monitor. However, you can still add virtual crosshairs to give you a competitive advantage, as your game's anti-cheat tool won't detect it.