Monday, June 21st 2021
AOC Launches AG274QXM Monitor with Mini LED: 27" WQHD, IPS, 170 Hz, 1 Ms, HDR 1,000
AOC via its Chinese website launched a new monitor that stands in its premium offerings. The AOC AG274QXM packs the latest Mini LED technology, enabling lighting of 576 individual zones, improving contrast and brightness enough so that it features VESA's DisplayHDR 1,000 certification. The 170 Hz IPS panel and WQHD (2560 x 1440) resolution is arguably at the best performance/image quality ratio compared to the current-gen graphics cards for the most demanding raytraced games, alongside the 1 ms response time and FreeSync support.
The AOC AG274QXM's panel also offers color coverage at 100 percent sRGB, 99 percent Adobe RGB, 98 percent DCI-P3 and a Delta-E <2 on its 10-bit panel. There are two integrated 5 W loudspeakers with DTS support, and I/O is taken care of by 2x HDMI 2.0, 1x DisplayPort 1.4, a USB 3.0 HUB, and 1x USB-Type C with DisplayPort alternate mode and 65 W power delivery. There is also RGB lighting on the monitor's stand. It isn't currently known whether AOC will launch the AG274QXM monitor to other markets other than the Chinese one.
The AOC AG274QXM's panel also offers color coverage at 100 percent sRGB, 99 percent Adobe RGB, 98 percent DCI-P3 and a Delta-E <2 on its 10-bit panel. There are two integrated 5 W loudspeakers with DTS support, and I/O is taken care of by 2x HDMI 2.0, 1x DisplayPort 1.4, a USB 3.0 HUB, and 1x USB-Type C with DisplayPort alternate mode and 65 W power delivery. There is also RGB lighting on the monitor's stand. It isn't currently known whether AOC will launch the AG274QXM monitor to other markets other than the Chinese one.
32 Comments on AOC Launches AG274QXM Monitor with Mini LED: 27" WQHD, IPS, 170 Hz, 1 Ms, HDR 1,000
*with shitloads of overshoot, or crosstalk and overshoot if its with strobing
Other than that, this might be, specs-wise, exactly what I've been waiting for for several years.
On a 165Hz display you need to drop down to 144Hz to watch 24Hz content without judder or pulldown 168Hz is exactly 7:1 for 24Hz movies. Either you spend time swapping between 144Hz and 165Hz all the time, or you don't bother and just run the screen in 144Hz mode all the time, wasting the extra 21Hz capability. 168Hz is a daily-driver refresh rate, IMO.
Give it another decade, in other words. We might see cheaper-than-OLED televisions with Mini-LED in the next 2-3 years, if we're lucky.
OLED is considerably closer when LG's 42" panels are out which should be this year.
576 zones for 1440p display means something like 1 backlight led for 80x80 pixels :)
It would be interesting to see if they will offer it in other markets and at what price.
All you really get is earlier eye damage.
200nits is bright enough for indoors unless you're unfortunate enough to have direct sunlight hitting your screen, and the solution to that is a window blind, not 1000nits
Black point is everything when it comes to contrast and the only holy grail here so far is OLED. Everything else is bullshit, well apart from a few thousand local dimming zones or fald. But even that is bandaid tech.