While the announcement of a new 27-inch HDR display from ASUS leaked a bit early, the ROG Swift PG27UQ is now official, and Ryan spent some quality time with this impressive display at CES:
There is no shortage of lust-worthy specifications from the PG27UQ, with a 144 Hz refresh rate from its 4K panel, NVIDIA G-SYNC HDR with 384-zone local dimming from its direct LED backlighting system, 1000 nit peak brightness, and quantum dot technology for a wide color gamut.
Here are the specifications for the ROG Swift PG27UQ from ASUS:
- Display Resolution: 3840×2160
- Panel type: 27in (16:9) IPS panel
- Backlight Type: Direct LED; dynamically controlled across 384 zones
- High Dynamic Range: Yes, HDR 10
- Refresh rate: Up to 144Hz
- Brightness: 1,000cd/m² (peak)
- Quantum Dot Technology: Yes
- Input: DisplayPort 1.4 x2, HDMI x1
No specifics on pricing or availably have been announced yet.
(Update — Scott Michaud @ January 6th, 11pm EST: ASUS has published a blog post claiming that the monitor will be available in Q3. OC3D claims that the price will be $1199, although that doesn't seem right and our anonymous sources have it closer to $1500.)
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Hey Allyn looks like that
Hey Allyn looks like that 240hz 1440P monitor might happen this year after all! Hopefully we find out before computex
past 144hz is pointless.
past 144hz is pointless. diminishing returns. better to step up to 4k
No.
No.
Agreed. No GPU today can pump
Agreed. No GPU today can pump that much fps from all the current AAA games, let alone above 4K.
I say 1440p for 27″ is the right spot. 4K or higher should have bigger size monitors.
lol last week i was saying
lol last week i was saying that this is what it would take to make me upgrade from xb270hu. Looks like 2017 will be an expensive year. Looking forward to seeing what kind of fps we can expect from high end graphics cards at 4k max eye candy.
Actually, you buying that has
Actually, you buying that has secured yourself for 3-4 years till your GPU (provided you keep updating it) can finally surpass the max HZ on AAA games.
is the other PG27s are any
is the other PG27s are any indication of how this will be released, don’t expect to get it for six months after initial release date as every shipment will be bought out before they can even get them off the pallet.
delays are nothing. What’s
delays are nothing. What’s should be foremost on everyone’s mind is the QC. Or has everyone forgotten about the shitty QC that ACER and ASUS both had on their monitors?
+1
+1
my thoughts exactly
my thoughts exactly
+ 50
It is a shame that we
+ 50
It is a shame that we find it acceptable to pay near 1000€ and have to play monitor lottery.
I wish Alan or Ryan would confront them (Acer and Asus) on this issue. Or anyone from youtube reviewer community for that matter. I’m curious what they would have to say.
I would love Dell to take this part of market seriously, and make a perfect 150+Hz IPS 2560×1440. Even if it was 100€ more, I would buy it instantly.
Currently more tempted by the
Currently more tempted by the similarly specced less bezel intensive Acer equivalent.
Any word on response times.
Any word on response times. These are gaming monitors so hopefully under 5ms would be super happy if in the 1-2ms range.
The technology is still so
The technology is still so limited, at best you’re looking at 5ms gtg, but far higher for full white – “black” (dark gray) – full white.
Have you guys seen any 2k
Have you guys seen any 2k 120hz+ HDR monitors being shown?
This!
A 2k HDR would be insta
This!
A 2k HDR would be insta buy for me, As long it does not suffer from bleeding issues.
Prerequisite for HDR
Prerequisite for HDR specification is at least UHD resolution. There will never be a HDR monitor with the resolution less than 3840×2160
Maybe HDR-like, but not HDR
I wish TN could do hdr
I wish TN could do hdr
G-Sync HDR(High Denominations
G-Sync HDR(High Denominations Required)! Now get those Benjamins ready, lots of them!
If you run this at less than
If you run this at less than 4k does the HDR still work?
Haha, gsync’s days are
Haha, gsync’s days are seriously numbered now that HDMI is officially building in its own variable refresh technology into HDMI 2.1. Finally no more of the this proprietary bullspit.
Anyone that buys a gsync panel after that announcement has officially gone full retard. Let it die.
What? Do you mean the buildin
What? Do you mean the buildin Freesync? LOL
Enjoy your CPU bottlenecks
Enjoy your CPU bottlenecks even my 5960x shows sighn at 1440/165hz in CPU demanding games like BF1 pushing over 100 plus fps good luck with that with 4k
plus you are at mercy of SLI
plus you are at mercy of SLI
Look I’m all for open
Look I’m all for open standards but the first generation of gsync was plain better than free sync (not talking cost just technology and results here). Free sync 2 looks like it’ll be better than both technologies 1st iteration. But make no mistake read Ryan’s article on free sync 2, in order to make it better and compete with gsync AMD is now going closed wall as well and their will be an extra cost.
Should probably make it clear
Should probably make it clear by closed wall I mean proprietary.
AMD can not make it
AMD can not make it proprietary and still use DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync. AMD used the VESA eDP standard to create “FreeSync” and got the VESA standards body to create the VESA DP AdaptiveSync Standard(AMD is a Mamber of VESA, as is Nvidia and many many others). Any technology/IP that AMD created and used to get VESA adoption of “FreeSync” now has to be made available to the VESA standards body and has to be under FRAND IP licensing to get it accepted as a VESA standard.
“FreeSync” is just a marketing name for what is the VESA DisplayPort 1.2a standard, so AMD’s “FreeSync2” still has to rely on VESA’s DP AdaptiveSync. Look for AMD(A member of VESA) to get any new features adopted by VESA also. So where is your source for this “proprietary” news you speak!
Edit: Mamber
To: Member
Edit: Mamber
To: Member
It isn’t going to be
It isn’t going to be proprietary. It sounds like they are going to do certification though. All that means is that a display will need to met the certification criteria to be branded as a FreeSync2 display. Displays that can not support frame rate doubling, and whatever other criteria AMD has specified, will not be able to use FreeSync 2 branding. Display makers are still free to make displays implementing VESA’s Adaptive Sync with any mix of features that they want. If they want to call it a FreeSync 2 display, then they will need to implement all of the features that AMD has specified, and go through AMD’s certification process, whatever that turns out to be. FreeSync is AMD’s brand name, so they can exercise control over how it is used.
The whole point was that AMD
The whole point was that AMD are creating a closed garden eco system where they control everything same as nvidias g sync, because its the only way to get vrr to work right. Free sync is a collection of technologies some of which are not proprietary some are, I am talking of the dynamic colour range adjustment from the drivers mentioned in the pcper article.
AMD isn’t the darling of open source goodness everyone who jumps their defence thinks they are. If AMD was in as controlling a position as nvidia are they would have done the same as gsync. Both companies are companies IE only out to look after their bottom line.
You do know that Nvidia is a
You do know that Nvidia is a member of VESA(creator of the DisplayPort AdaptiveSync standard with AMD, others members of VESA), as is Intel and everybody in the PC/Laptop/mobile devices business! So “FreeSync2” will also be adopted as a VESA standard open to all with any “FreeSync2” branding depending on that display makers adherence to specifications. And adherence to open standards is good for an industry’s bottom line with all the companies sharing in the R&D and development costs of the open standards. If the open HDMI, PCIe, DP, etc. standards where not saving companies money the companies that created the standards bodies like PCI-SIG, VESA, HDMI-Forum, USB-IF would have never been created by the companies/industry concerned. The standards bodies’ very existence is due to the many companies getting together to create the open standards organizations to begin with for the companies to pool their resources and save billions on not having shoulder development/R&D costs individually.
Open Standards and Open Source are two very different things and you need to research that a little more before you post!
You can see color much better
You can see color much better in video hope we get 1440 version
+1, 1440p is the sweet spot
+1, 1440p is the sweet spot for (VRR) gaming, 4K is too demanding…
+1, 1440p is the sweet spot
+1, 1440p is the sweet spot for (VRR) gaming, 4K is too demanding…
$2,000?
Note to all big
$2,000?
Note to all big spenders hdmi 2.1 with game vrr is right around the corner.
So looking forward to this
So looking forward to this but once again they are under 30″ leading to disappointment.
this is a beast of a screen!
this is a beast of a screen! Might need to star saving those pennies again!
https://www.esportsource.net/best-gaming-monitor/