Monday, March 13th 2023
ASUS Launches the ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM Monitor
ASUS today formally launched the ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM Monitor. We first spotted this monitor on the show-floor at the 2023 International CES back in January. It is one of the company's fastest monitors with an OLED display panel. The 27-incher offers WQHD (2560 x 1440 pixels) resolution, with a blistering 0.03 ms response time, and 240 Hz refresh rate, and 1,000 nits peak brightness and DCI-P3 coverage of 99%. OLED panels tend to produce more heat than LED-backlit LCD panels, and so ASUS introduced a passive cooling solution to cool it. The monitor supports NVIDIA G-SYNC (compatible), along with VESA Adaptive Sync. Display inputs include a DisplayPort 1.4, and two HDMI 2.0. The company didn't reveal pricing.
33 Comments on ASUS Launches the ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM Monitor
Manufacturer site calls it out twice:
rog.asus.com/uk/monitors/27-to-31-5-inches/rog-swift-oled-pg27aqdm/spec/
Why was "AMD", let alone "FreeSync Premium" skipped in the OP?
2560x1440x240x30b (HDR) requires about 26.5 Gbit/s, more than DP 1.4 25.9 Gbit/s usable bandwidth.
They apparently assume that either DSC is always used, or DP is used in SDR only... or 240 Hz refresh rate is not used?
OLED's go for around $1000
www.reddit.com/search/?q=PG27AQDM&source=recent&sort=new
On another point sometimes I run memtest86 for 24 hrs. from the Ultimate BootCD and that requires the monitor be left on for that entire period (if I turn off my Asus PG279q or switch inputs the screen goes blank and I can't see the results of memtest86), would leaving memtest running for 24 hrs. with the monitor on cause any negative effects for an OLED (e.g. burn out the matrix prematurely or cause permanent burn-in)?
(Gigabyte AORUS did, however, at one point (first gen Ryzen) have mobos that lit up like a Christmas tree, wherein even the RAM and PCIe slots were RGB lit. But aside from that, they weren't covered in cringy "gamer" text) Or the all white build = clean or female gamers only like pink (peripherals).
Could have been a winner, but greed is just too much.
As cool as they look sometimes, a good amount of the people using this (Unless they got rich parents) aren't looking for 4090's and high contrast, high resolution monitors to be looking like a "toy" with little cool light up logo projectors on the stand and RGB rings like some kind of Beyblade.
Something that seems a little bit more understated would be better, I guess it's a preference and taste thing but that's why I personally like the founder's edition cards as they are a bit more better looking. definitely $1,000 or more as LG's current 27GR95QE-B which uses the same panel costs that.
So many people have no idea about the difference between G-Sync & G-Sync compatible monitors! I bought my son a $1,480 (including shipping & tax) 3080-12GB gpu! Of course I want a monitor that has the hardware in it for G-Sync! I actually wish this was G-Sync Ultimate!