Asus ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG Review

Not agelong ago, the imaginable of a 1440p OLED gaming show unsocial would person been exciting. Now OLED gaming monitors are becoming overmuch much wide available, demonstrating show improvements successful leaps and bounds portion the exertion besides trickles down to little and little prices. The Asus ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG fits determination successful the mediate of that formula, bringing newer Tandem OLED exertion portion not pushing the limits connected velocity and reining successful the terms to a humble $599 – 1 of the little prices we’ve seen for immoderate caller OLED gaming monitor. But successful a marketplace that has been moving fast, the XG27AQWMG’s reservations whitethorn clasp it backmost excessively much.

Asus ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG – Design and Features

The Asus ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG is simply a classy monitor, though not a dazzling one. It keeps things reasonably elemental – there’s a splash of RGB connected the backmost with an illuminated ROG logo, but it stops good abbreviated of garishness. The beforehand besides includes an ROG logo beneath the show itself connected a small chin that besides houses the monitor's controls: a brace of buttons and a four-way joystick for casual control.

The beforehand of the show is each solid with a glossy decorativeness and anti-glare furniture that efficaciously cuts down connected reflections. The backmost whitethorn beryllium an each integrative affair, but it looks clean. There’s a ample container lodging each the electronics, the interior powerfulness supply, and the 2 HDMI 2.1, 1 DisplayPort 1.4, and 3 USB ports (two downstream, 1 upstream). That interior powerfulness proviso is simply a large perk for keeping table abstraction clean, and the USB hub doesn’t wounded either. A USB-C larboard with Power Delivery would person been bully to see, though.

The basal is besides considerate of table space. It has a reasonably compact, hexagonal basal that lone takes up 7.4 inches of abstraction front-to-back. While a tiny basal tin contiguous stableness concerns, and the show surely wiggled a bit, the XG27AQWMG ne'er topped successful testing. With an included adapter bracket, the show tin beryllium swapped implicit to a VESA 100x100 mount, but the included basal is rather flexible, and doesn’t beg for replacement. It provides a 4.3-inch tallness accommodation range, tilts 5 degrees down oregon 20 degrees back, tin swivel 45 degrees successful either direction, and pivots into a vertical predisposition successful either direction. The apical of the basal includes a threaded spread for a microphone, light, oregon nonrecreational camera.

The show information of the show is simply a precise bladed panel, arsenic is emblematic of OLED. Asus shows this disconnected good by partially separating it from the electronics lodging connected the rear. The bezels astir the surface are minimal, though a interaction thicker connected the bottom. The show besides uses a pixel shifting diagnostic to support the panel, and this tin effect successful 1 broadside bezel being noticeably larger than the different (for aesthetically picky individuals, this tin beryllium turned off).

The Asus ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG doesn’t spell precise dense connected further features. There are nary speakers, for instance, but it has immoderate emblematic gaming show features similar an fps antagonistic and crosshair overlay. The crosshair tin automatically displacement colour for amended contrast, which is simply a neat touch, though I find the crosshair lines a small heavy to privation to usage successful immoderate case. Most of its features are meant to support the OLED sheet steadfast by intelligently dimming agleam elements if they’re connected the surface for excessively long. The show tin besides usage a sensor to observe erstwhile nary 1 is adjacent the show and crook it black, though the minimum clip for this is 5 minutes, which conscionable leaves maine questioning: if you tin consciousness I’m not astatine the monitor, wherefore hold 5 minutes and not 5 seconds?

The show works with Asus’s DisplayWidget Center software. This provides entree to the monitor’s settings done bundle connected your computer, which tin beryllium easier to negociate than the built-in OSD. Some features lone enactment with the software, too, similar linking show profiles to circumstantial games.

Asus ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG – Gaming and Performance

The Asus ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG provides a large setup for gaming. The 27-inch, 1440p sheet is simply a tried and existent operation for games offering a desk-friendly size with coagulated clarity that’s besides acold easier to propulsion astatine precocious framework rates than 4K. Getting to lucifer that with an OLED sheet susceptible of moving astatine 280Hz is thing abbreviated of superb for gaming. I whipped done hours of combat successful Battlefield 6 and had nary struggles keeping up with the enactment acknowledgment to the creaseless refresh rates and accelerated pixel effect times – that meant nary blur erstwhile I had to rotation 180 degrees to drawback an force coming from behind.

The OLED sheet is besides wonderfully colorful, hitting 98% of the DCI-P3 colour abstraction for vivid visuals. If you’re playing a neon-soaked crippled similar Cyberpunk 2077 oregon Ghostrunner, that colour makes a satellite of difference. And it comes alongside infinite opposition acknowledgment to pitch-black pixels. Unfortunately, the colour doesn’t look to beryllium precise accurate. Across respective antithetic ocular profiles, the show saw mean dE colour errors implicit 2.5 and max dE errors implicit 6, limiting its imaginable for originative use. Only the sRGB Cal illustration reached an mean dE beneath 2, but inactive suffered from a max dE implicit 6, and it clamped excessively hard connected the color, reducing sRGB colour sum to conscionable 94%.

The XG27AQWMG has its sore points, though. As breathtaking arsenic Tandem OLED should be, you’ll get immoderate of what you’re hoping for and immoderate of what you’re not. While investigating the show astatine its default settings showed cleanable achromatic pixels alongside a respectable 253-nit mean brightness, maxing retired the brightness and enabling the monitor's Performance mode inched up the achromatic level to 0.02-nit black. It’s hard, bordering connected impossible, to perceive, but I measured it consistently. The tradeoff is simply a much tangible uplift successful brightness, with the show capable to scope 380 nits – a beardown effect for an OLED display. For comparison, the MSI MAG 272QP QD-OLED X50 topped retired astatine 297.8 nits.

With HDR enabled, the show could scope adjacent higher, though this besides proved somewhat variable. With a 100% achromatic window, it deed 359 nits, and with a 10% achromatic model it reached 618 nits, some with the Gaming HDR preset. The HDR500 True Black mounting had akin performance. While good, the show had plentifulness of country for improvement, and utilizing its Adjustable HDR mounting astatine 100% brightness fto it radiance adjacent brighter, reaching 842 nits successful a 10% window. This mounting besides didn’t spot the raised achromatic level that had affected different presets. Why Asus made it a insignificant chore to get this highest brightness is simply a curiosity, but with HDR show similar this, the show has a batch of committedness for games and movies alike.

Another OLED contented inactive lingers here: subpixel arrangements resulting successful reduced clarity. While I’ve seen colour fringing spell from hard-to-overlook to hard-to-spot arsenic sheet designs person progressed implicit the past fewer years, the XG27AQWMG isn’t astatine the beforehand of the battalion adjacent with its caller Tandem OLED tech. This fringing manifests connected the edges of good lines (i.e., text). It’s not a changeless nuisance, with achromatic substance connected a achromatic inheritance seldom exhibiting the fringing. But I’ve seen it much often present than connected caller QD-OLED panels.

The Asus ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG whitethorn person an borderline successful brightness acknowledgment to its Tandem OLED panel, but it fails to basal retired arsenic overmuch arsenic it could with its colour accuracy and fringing. This sees it lag down the MSI MAG 272QP QD-OLED X50, which isn’t rather arsenic agleam but hits 500Hz, has the aforesaid colour gamut, much close color, little noticeable fringing, and was $649 astatine the clip of writing.