Asus XG27AQDMG Discussion

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There's better options now. I'd go with a latest-gen QD-OLED, which AFAIK do not have any gamma shift whatsoever, no black crush issues, and behave better in VRR (still not flicker-free, but better than the atrocious flicker of this one.) They also have caught up with the HDR brightness of this particular WOLED.

This monitor now only makes sense if you can get it for very cheap and can live without VRR. Just to give you an idea of how bad the VRR flicker is on this one: I can see flicker even when the frame time graph is stable. Even the +/- 0.5ms fluctuation of the Nvidia Reflex limiter produces some visible flicker. The only way to get rid of VRR flicker is to use some 100% accurate limiter, like RTSS front-edge sync (or back-edge sync, I forgot which one,) or the Special K "Normal" limiter. The RTSS async and Special K VRR low-latency limiters will make this monitor produce a slight flicker.

That's how bad this monitor is with VRR. I've never seen anything do worse VRR in my life. I stopped using VRR completely.

As for 60Hz and 120Hz, they do raise blacks, but this also results in "posterization" artifacts near black. W-OLED in general are bad at near-black luminance. This panel (or maybe it's what Asus has done with it) is a bit worse than most other W-OLEDs in that regard. 240Hz and 180Hz is mostly fine.

Wow, okay that's good to know. It was still unclear to me whether or not a good limiter could fix the flicker, but knowing that it won't definitely changes things since I need a good VRR experience.

The main reason I specified a WOLED was that I don't like the purple tint of QD-OLED and wanted to try WOLED instead, but if the newer QD-OLEDs are better for VRR then I'll have to go with that. I don't care about maximum brightness, at least not for SDR. In fact, many IPS monitors I've used seem to actually be too bright with very high minimum brightness. I'm not sure why people need such high brightness for SDR content.

Is there a particular latest gen QD-OLED model that you think is good? I know there is the XG27ACDMS but someone posted on here that VRR doesn't work properly.

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The main reason I specified a WOLED was that I don't like the purple tint of QD-OLED and wanted to try WOLED instead

I haven't kept up much with this, but I think latest-gen QD with newer coating have reduced this issue a bit. Definitely look up the reviews on this.

I don't care about maximum brightness, at least not for SDR.

The values I've seen for the latest QD-OLED either match this one (280 nits) or even exceed it (300 nits.) So not an issue anyway. But it depends on the specific monitor and how they've factory calibrated it.

In fact, many IPS monitors I've used seem to actually be too bright with very high minimum brightness. I'm not sure why people need such high brightness for SDR content.

I don't know if you've used or seen an OLED up close before, but brightness on an OLED in general comes off in a way that makes it look brighter compared to an LCD of the same brightness. I'd say that if an OLED says it does 300 nits in SDR, that's more equivalent to an LCD that does 400 nits or so. It's probably the insane contrast that gives the impression of brightness being higher than what it actually is.

For my use case here, SDR brightness of this Asus maxes out at about 280 nits. I've set it to 30% brightness, which is around 110 nits for desktop use. For SDR games I put it to 50% or so (depends on the game.)

Brightness has never been an issue for me, even when the lights are on in the room the monitor is in. Setting it to full brightness is unusable for me. Way too bright for my eyes.

Is there a particular latest gen QD-OLED model that you think is good? I know there is the XG27ACDMS but someone posted on here that VRR doesn't work properly.

That's probably an older gen. I'm not even sure latest gen QD is available in 1440p 16:9. I'm talking about RGB stripe QD-OLED (meaning same subpixels as LCD,) commonly referred to as "5th gen," and I believe these only come in 4K or ultrawide 1440p. Or in a TV An example would be this:

https://www.msi.com/news/detail/See-Eve ... X36-147596

(Not that I recommend or not recommend this monitor, I've no idea, I only searched for an RGB stripe QDOLED monitor.)

I haven't researched much since I'm not in the market for a new monitor. Even with the VRR issue, I'm fine with this Asus right now. I just don't use VRR. Maybe this is a good starting point:

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That's probably an older gen. I'm not even sure latest gen QD is available in 1440p 16:9. I'm talking about RGB stripe QD-OLED (meaning same subpixels as LCD,) commonly referred to as "5th gen," and I believe these only come in 4K or ultrawide 1440p. Or in a TV An example would be this:

https://www.msi.com/news/detail/See-Eve ... X36-147596

(Not that I recommend or not recommend this monitor, I've no idea, I only searched for an RGB stripe QDOLED monitor.)

I haven't researched much since I'm not in the market for a new monitor. Even with the VRR issue, I'm fine with this Asus right now. I just don't use VRR. Maybe this is a good starting point:

Yeah hopefully a good 1440p RGB stripe monitor comes out. Thanks for the info.