We’d have a brand new king of esports gaming displays — one with fewer compromises than standard. Asus has simply introduced the ROG Swift OLED PG27AQWP-W at Gamescom 2025. Not solely does it provide a 26.5-inch 2560 x 1440 QHD OLED display at a blazing-fast 540Hz, it’s additionally a dual-mode panel that may swap to a virtually unheard-of 720Hz refresh price once you kick the graphics all the way down to 1080p* decision.
Asus could not technically have the quickest monitor ever made, as both Koorui and HKC have announced 750Hz 1080p displays, however each of these have TN panels that gained’t even start to compete on coloration, brightness, and viewing angles. They’re from manufacturers we don’t usually see in western international locations, and neither permits you to swap to greater decision once you don’t want all of the pace.
In the meantime, the Asus isn’t simply OLED — it’s a tandem OLED panel that ought to dramatically enhance HDR brightness and allegedly enhance lifespan. It’s additionally bought a shiny coating that would make its colours much more vibrant and its blacks even blacker than OLED tech can already afford, assuming you’re not taking part in in a room with glare (although Asus claims the coating minimizes glare “even in brilliant rooms.”)
Sadly, we don’t have pricing or a launch date but, and I believe it’ll price a fairly penny as a result of Asus selected that groundbreaking panel and did all that work to set it aside. Seeing extra OLED monitor costs come all the way down to earth would excite me much more than a brand new flagship like this.
Additionally, I would favor a smaller stand to the large three-blade propeller, however sadly, Asus does make you compromise to get that. The corporate’s additionally introducing a brand new ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG at this time with the identical tandem OLED tech, however as you may see within the one-pager under, it’s a 280Hz panel that also depends on both HDMI 2.1 or DisplayPort 1.4’s DSC compression, moderately than the flagship’s new DisplayPort 2.1a which boasts 80Gbps of bandwidth.
Each have Asus’ “Neo Proximity Sensor,” a comparatively new function it’s been including to OLED panels, “to precisely measure the person’s distance to the monitor and mechanically swap to a black display when the person is away,” as an additional safety towards burn-in. Asus additionally tends to supply a three-year guarantee towards OLED burn-in nowadays, and each LG Show and Samsung Show’s newer panels have many protections towards it; so long as these protections aren’t over-aggressive, burn-in is now not a purpose I’d personally steer away.
Simply know that different monitor makers will in all probability use the identical 4th-gen WOLED tandem panel from LG Show, too. SDC has already announced one, and different manufacturers would possibly observe go well with.