Thursday, January 2nd 2025
ASUS Upcoming ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM is a 27-inch 4K 240 Hz Gaming Monitor
ASUS has published the product page for its upcoming ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM gaming monitor, which will go head to head with the MSI MPG272URX on which will hit retail as the first 27-inch 4K 240 Hz display. The PG27UCDM sports a 26.5-inch panel using what ASUS refers to as 4th gen QD-OLED technology, which the company claims offer longer lifespan compared to previous generations of OLED panels. The panel sports typical OLED features such as a 0.03 ms response time, a peak brightness of 1,000 cd/m², 99 percent DCI-P3 colour space coverage and VESA DisplayHDR 400 True Black. The display also supports AMD FreeSync Premium Pro and NVIDIA G-Sync compatible, as well as a host of ASUS specific gaming features such as ELMB, GameFast Input Technology, Shadow Bost and a DisplayWidget.
Inputs consist of a DisplayPort 2.1 port with UHBR20 (80 Gbps) support, a USB Type-C with DP-Alt mode and USB PD up to 90 W and a pair of HDMI 2.1 ports. There's also a three port USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps) USB hub with what we presume is a USB Type-B input and a headphone jack. The reason for the presumed USB Type-B input, is that the specs claim KVM support and this would only be possible if there was a USB input of some kind, but this isn't mentioned in the tech specs. The stand is your typical higher-end model with tilt, swivel, pivot and height adjustment, as well as ASUS' Aura Sync lighting and a tripod mount at the top. ASUS claims a power consumption of around 80 Watts, although this doesn't include USB PD. A big plus is that ASUS will bundle a DisplayPort 2.1 DP80 cable in the box, something for example Sony decided not to include with their INZONE M9 II which launched in September last year. There's no word on pricing for the ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM, but expect it to be on the expensive side of US$1,000.
Sources:
ASUS, via Videocardz
Inputs consist of a DisplayPort 2.1 port with UHBR20 (80 Gbps) support, a USB Type-C with DP-Alt mode and USB PD up to 90 W and a pair of HDMI 2.1 ports. There's also a three port USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps) USB hub with what we presume is a USB Type-B input and a headphone jack. The reason for the presumed USB Type-B input, is that the specs claim KVM support and this would only be possible if there was a USB input of some kind, but this isn't mentioned in the tech specs. The stand is your typical higher-end model with tilt, swivel, pivot and height adjustment, as well as ASUS' Aura Sync lighting and a tripod mount at the top. ASUS claims a power consumption of around 80 Watts, although this doesn't include USB PD. A big plus is that ASUS will bundle a DisplayPort 2.1 DP80 cable in the box, something for example Sony decided not to include with their INZONE M9 II which launched in September last year. There's no word on pricing for the ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM, but expect it to be on the expensive side of US$1,000.
33 Comments on ASUS Upcoming ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM is a 27-inch 4K 240 Hz Gaming Monitor
My monitor supports DP2.1 therefore my new video card should support DP 2.1. Henceforth the RTX5090 is justified.
Please, wail away and carry on Team Sad.
really needs to drop in price to $700 or less or 4k at 27" is not that interesting
DSC or display stream compression technically (what we use with older DP) does compress the signal data for us to be able to enjoy high data-rate video, but in reality its impact is so invisibly low, that nobody is in a real rush to provide DP2.1 capabilities to consumer grade graphics cards even in the 4K240 era. There's no rush and no push to get consumer GPUs out the door with DP 2.1 arrays because of it.
Proximity sensor for burn-in prevention is something I...think I have heard of but can't recall which 27" 1440p or 32" 4K models have it.
Not that it matters this time. I will just lump all desktop shortcuts at my other monitor so that there will be no desktop layout got messed up when I physically turn off whatever new monitor I get.
I guess this exact model will be a "well, I'm the best in this category" model to justify a USD900~1000 launch price. That MSI 32" model (I'm assuming MSI MAG 321UP at USD800 launch price) is very potato in terms of functions, and can do only 165Hz, so it should not be compared to this one too closely.
Oh crap there's already a review here. Haven't watched it completely, just to lump it here.
It is not some magical thing Nvidia came up with for their 5090...How about running without DSC and it's related issues?
HDMI 2.1 is 48Gbps and while it's higher bandwidth than DP 1.4a it's less than DP 2.1 UHBR 13.5, much less UHBR20.
HDMI 2.2 is in the works but dont expect this until 2028 maybe.
This kiddo toy look ASUS goes with totally doesn't do it for me.
16b/18b on the HDMI 2.1, leads to 41.89Gbps of effective bandwidth.
128b/132b on the DP 2.1 (all three standards), leads to 38.69Gbps for the UHBR10 version.
4k240hz 10bit RGB requires 68.56Gbps. If you apply the minimal DSC compression (16bit/pixel), bandwidth decreases to 36.56Gbps.
So, DP 2.1 UHBR10 (+UHBR13.5) and HDMI 2.1 48Gbps give you the same visual result.
No VESA DisplayHDR 600.
What about HDR10+?
It's 1000nits peak brightness.That's an LCD standard. It doesn't meet the DisplayHDR True Black 600 requirements i guess for the full screen sustained brightness (350nits on the True Black 600 certification).Well.. Do you really want an answer?
No scaling when gaming obviously.
My laptop with 2880x1800 resolution on a 14-inch display is much harder to work with, even with scaling.