Asus’ new 27-inch OLED gaming monitor has a heatsink to maintain cool

Asus is certainly one of many manufacturers leaping into making smaller OLED gaming screens for 2023. Acer and LG took their pictures. Now, the mannequin Asus had been teasing is actual, and it’s obtained a clunky title: the Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM. Display screen-wise, what it’s providing matches the others; it’s a 27-inch, 1440p, matte-coated OLED that runs at a quick 240Hz refresh price with a .03-millisecond response time. But it surely does have one huge distinction: a heatsink to maintain it cooler and lengthen its lifespan.

I haven’t seen this one in particular person but, however its show looks like a delight to have a look at. It covers 99 p.c of the DCI-P3 shade gamut, so digital artists and different creators may have the ability to use it — once they aren’t gaming, that’s. Like different OLEDs, this one gives a just about infinite distinction ratio with per-pixel management of brightness and shade for the absolute best image.

Display screen tech apart, this monitor’s design is perhaps what units it other than these different related fashions. It has a slick cluster of RGB LEDs on its again, as most Asus gaming merchandise do, and its stand seems sturdy. You’ll both love or hate that it initiatives a ROG emblem onto your desk (hopefully that may be turned off). What’s fused to the rear of this monitor units it aside, too. It has a heatsink that Asus says permits it — together with an air vent — to drag warmth away from the panel, reducing the temperature by as much as 5 levels in comparison with related fashions.

OLEDs aren’t identified for overheating to the purpose of shutting off, however a heatsink may assist to mitigate the chance of OLED burn-in over time. That’s an ever-present concern with OLED, nevertheless it’s one which has grow to be much less of a priority as most screens and panels have already got a number of options to dim, shift, or change off pixels. Asus says the PG27AQDM has a peak brightness of 1,000 nits when displaying an HDR picture taking on 3 p.c of the overall display. That’s the identical determine that LG’s 27-inch UltraGear OLED is capturing for with no heatsink, so maybe it’s greatest to count on long-term advantages from the heatsink as a substitute of any short-term upgrades.

Asus claims to have designed a show algorithm targeted on delivering a uniform brightness, giving no pixel extra energy than it must be displayed. Along with effectivity, it goals to make the luminance the identical throughout the board, even when you’ve got a number of home windows open. We’ll should see how this works throughout testing. No value has been shared, and Asus hasn’t confirmed which ports are included right here, sadly.