Best new monitors nowadays?

[neptuneen]

So.. ever since the monitors list released 7 years ago.. obviously, everything changed. now we have 480Hz OLEDS and 600Hz TN panels with ULMB 2 and all the technologies since 2018, what would be the new best monitors? So many names and so many different options..

[unconnected]

It really depends on your use-case.
If you plan to goon 10 hours a day maybe oled is not the best option, but if you're into competitive latency dependant games the asus pg27aqdp is the best choice as for now.

[kyube]

So.. ever since the monitors list released 7 years ago.. obviously, everything changed. now we have 480Hz OLEDS and 600Hz TN panels with ULMB 2 and all the technologies since 2018, what would be the new best monitors? So many names and so many different options..

ASUS PG27AQDP (if possibe, wait for the new 540hz 4th gen Tandem OLED's)
AOC Q25G4SR or ASUS PG27AQNR (coming Q3)

[jetcat3]

Right now it’s the XG27AQDPG and XG27UCDMG in my opinion. https://rog.asus.com/monitors/27-to-31- ... xg27aqdpg/

[JimProfit]

Depends on a bunch of criteria.
OLED beats LCD pretty much across the board, except if you need the maximum amount of motion clarity at lower refresh rates, in which case the best strobing (ULMB, ELMB,...) LCDs are unmatched.
Also, since burn-in is a potential issue on static content, some people avoid OLED as a main working monitor.

At the moment of writing, I use an LCD ULMB monitor with a big OLED TV sitting next to it as a secondary display.
I won't go under 1440p and 27", and my research led me to the PG27AQN.
It is by no mean perfect but it should yield among the highest motion clarity at 120hz out of every monitor released with ULMB2 (also works at 144/240hz and 360hz with DSC).
It also supports basic HDR, which remains turned on when ULMB is engaged, something not all strobing monitors do.

As of today, if I wanted an OLED, I would go for the PG27AQDP (27" 1440p 480") but I'm holding out for something better and for CRT Simulation to be useable in any application. It is important for me that 60fps locked content look ok.

On a side note the G-sync Pulsar PG27AQNR monitor mentioned above may finally be coming later this year, but I've only seen one website giving the Q3 2025 ETA, nearly one year after its initial release date of Q4 2024.
So hopefully it's not vaporware and it delivers the goods (better than my PG27AQN in every way).

[kyube]

So hopefully it's not vaporware and it delivers the goods (better than my PG27AQN in every way).

I personally think it's not gonna be a upgrade over the previous PG27AQN.
Sure, the VRR + backlight strobing might be usable in terms of eye-tracked motion performance... but it's gonna behave similarly to PWM dimming light flicker. Which means it's gonna be a even larger eye strain concern than normal backlight strobing.

I also don't think they're gonna upgrade the backlight type to QD... it's still gonna be KSF with severe red fringing...

In terms of G2G RT's, I doubt any IPS can reach proper compliance at 360hz. It will perform more-or-less identical to it's predecessor.

The only improvement I see is the inclusion of HDMI 2.1 (hopefully FRL6), which would mean that you could run the display without DSC (best to keep MPOs working)

[mackrozhkoff]

I also don't think they're gonna upgrade the backlight type to QD... it's still gonna be KSF with severe red fringing...

It looks like there's a chance that the upcoming Asus Gsync Pulsar monitor won't have a red fringing
At least in this demo video it doesn't

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-QgIy2E7ctg

[Discorz]

It looks like there's a chance that the upcoming Asus Gsync Pulsar monitor won't have a red fringing
At least in this demo video it doesn't

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-QgIy2E7ctg

That appears to be correct. I didn't spot any red ghosting in this footage. And he did seem to pursuit that CS character somewhat accurately. Camera shutter speed isn't ideal but that shouldn't matter much for this purpose.

This is another great news... if I did the analysis correctly. That explains why it took them so long to release it. They had to swap out the KSF with QD backlight.

G-SYNC Pulsar 2024


G-SYNC Pulsar 2025

[Supermodel_Evelynn]

Too bad Pulsar won't support 60HZ strobing, a missed opportunity.