Tuesday, March 4th 2025
Dell Launches Two New Alienware QD-OLED Gaming Monitors, Starting at US$550
Back in January, Dell/Alienware announced the 27-inch 4K AW2725Q QD-OLED monitor, which is now being joined by the 27-inch 2560 x 1440 resolution AW2725D and the 34-inch 3440 x 1440 resolution AW3425DW, both also sporting a QD-OLED panel. The AW3425DW offers a 240 Hz refresh rate, a 0.03 ms grey to grey response time and a peak brightness of 1000 cd/m². The monitor is NVIDIA G-Sync Compatible, as well as AMD FreeSync Premium Pro and VESA AdaptiveSync certified and it supports HDMI VRR for console gamers. Dell has equipped it with one DP 1.4 port, two HDMI 2.1 ports—there's support for both picture by picture and picture in picture, something normally only seen on more business savvy monitors—one USB Type-B upstreams and one USB Type-A as well as one Type-C downstream ports, all being limited to a 5 Gbps data rate, although the Type-C port supports 15 W device charging.
As for the AW2725D, we're looking at a 280 Hz refresh rate, but Dell didn't provide much else in terms of specifications, as this model isn't expected to be available until sometime this summer. However, it will be the cheapest QD-OLED monitor from Dell's Alienware brand at US$549.99. The AW3425DW will have an MSRP of US$799.99 which it launches on April 29th. Finally, the AW2725Q which launches today, will retail at the announced US$899.99. All three models will come with a three year OLED burn-in warranty.
Sources:
Dell, via Flatpanelshd
As for the AW2725D, we're looking at a 280 Hz refresh rate, but Dell didn't provide much else in terms of specifications, as this model isn't expected to be available until sometime this summer. However, it will be the cheapest QD-OLED monitor from Dell's Alienware brand at US$549.99. The AW3425DW will have an MSRP of US$799.99 which it launches on April 29th. Finally, the AW2725Q which launches today, will retail at the announced US$899.99. All three models will come with a three year OLED burn-in warranty.
16 Comments on Dell Launches Two New Alienware QD-OLED Gaming Monitors, Starting at US$550
DoA
240Hz on 1440p is tempting but not sure how the picture quality will change...
Also loosing one DP to HDMI is not the best. One of the best features of my current AW3423DWF is that is has 2 DP inputs.
Hmmm, will see in April ;) Maybe when it goes on sale from $800 to a bit lower.
HBR3 = 25.92 Gbit/s
Above 144Hz you need DSC.
DP 1.4 is really pretty old by now and I thought the main difference between 1.4 and 2.1 was the encoding and not the physical interface so I don't really understand why we aren't getting DP 2.1 but instead we're still getting the same speeds we had 10years ago from DP 1.3.
16:9 1440p is 205Hz for 1.4a.
So they both use DSC technically because they're on a 10year old interface standard.
Might be a bad implementation in a budget display driver IC, rather than a DSC issues.
No need to go UHBR20 imo - even the cables for that are pretty costly - but UHBR10 should already be the standard in pretty much everything and would solve almost all complains.
These are clearly targeting a certain price point.
DP 2.1 is likely to be a premium feature for at least another couple of years, even at lower data rates.
Makes no sense to upgrade if can't do 3440x1440 200Hz HDR without compression.
165Hz -> 200Hz would be a small change anyhow but was a good "reason" to get the new model.
Only option left is HDMI 2.1 then.
Is that supported on Linux with AMD GPU?