Tuesday, May 21st 2024
ASUS Launches Glossy 1440p WOLED Gaming Monitor
Today is a good day for those of you that have wanted a glossy OLED gaming monitor, as ASUS has launched the ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG, which is a glossy WOLED gaming monitor. The ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG sports a 2560 x 1440 pixel WOLED display with a 240 Hz refresh rate and a 0.03 ms grey to grey response time. ASUS also claims up to 20 percent brighter image in SDR mode and deeper black hues under any lighting conditions, quite something to live up to. On the more technical side, the panel is said to offer a 1.5 million to one contrast ratio, support for 99 percent of the DCI-P3 colour space or 135 percent of the RGB colour space and it's should also have 10-bit colour support.
Connectivity wise, there will be disappointing sights from some, as the ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG relies on a single DP 1.4 with DSC and a pair of HDMI 2.0 ports for video inputs, which means the HDMI ports are limited to 144 Hz. It also only has two USB 3.2 Gen 1 5 Gbps ports and no USB Type-C input, although there's a headphone jack for those that want to use that. Other features include FreeSync Premium and G-Sync Compatible support, as well as ASUS' trace free technology, GamePlus, shadow boost and OLED care. No word on official pricing at this point in time, but it's non-glossy counterpart retails for US$900.
Update May 21st: ASUS has announced the offical pricing for the ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG and the MSRP is US$699, which makes it around US$200 cheaper than its non-glossy counterpart. It'll go on sale from the 30th of May.
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Connectivity wise, there will be disappointing sights from some, as the ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG relies on a single DP 1.4 with DSC and a pair of HDMI 2.0 ports for video inputs, which means the HDMI ports are limited to 144 Hz. It also only has two USB 3.2 Gen 1 5 Gbps ports and no USB Type-C input, although there's a headphone jack for those that want to use that. Other features include FreeSync Premium and G-Sync Compatible support, as well as ASUS' trace free technology, GamePlus, shadow boost and OLED care. No word on official pricing at this point in time, but it's non-glossy counterpart retails for US$900.
Update May 21st: ASUS has announced the offical pricing for the ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG and the MSRP is US$699, which makes it around US$200 cheaper than its non-glossy counterpart. It'll go on sale from the 30th of May.
57 Comments on ASUS Launches Glossy 1440p WOLED Gaming Monitor
The DP 2.1 connector is mostly the same as 1.4 and the major change was encoding. To not have it but still pay HDMI royalties and not even have HDMI 2.1 is really rather cheap. This display will not work as advertised spec without DSC.
27" is probably close to ideal with 1440p, leading to good pixel density without being ungodly small.
At 699? If the pricing remains somewhat similar in europe (I'll settle for 699-749 euro), then this may be what I've been looking for in a monitor!
Contrast and luminance are so very odd, numbers are highly deceiving. In static contrast, you need upwards of 1000:1 steps to even remotely notice a difference, especially as you go beyond 2000:1; you can put a 3000:1 and 5000:1 VA next to each other and be hard pressed to see differences, in fact, you will probably only see them clearly in a dim lit room. And then when it comes to blacks (the other end of the spectrum: identifying luminance, instead of looking for the biggest gap between bright and dark), we're super sensitive. You can clearly tell the difference between a 0.2 and a 0.1 black point. There is something about 'pitch black' that makes it special and extremely hard to achieve, and we're sensitive to it. Not illogical either: pitch black means we're blind. We don't like that.
Below graph shows; WOLED is nearly twice as dark as QD OLED - or better at lower lux, and its good to realize 150-200 is typical there. Its a difference that makes you wonder why you'd even bother with anything other than WOLED, after all, the black point is its biggest advantage compared to LCD. It also puts a different lens on 'high brightness'. Very bright screens are NOT an advantage. Only go brighter if you need to be able to see things better, otherwise lower brightness = better. The closer you can get to the lowest possible black point, the more the image will pop, as static contrast will rise exponentially the lower you go.
Nice example of less being more.
Oh lol there it is.
QD-OLED (and OLED in general) is far from a perfect technology and comes with a lot of tradeoffs. But if you can mitigate or live with those, it's still a pretty amazing display tech.