Asus, Samsung, And Msi Announce World’s First 27-inch 4k Oled 240hz Monitors

27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors look to beryllium for illustration buses: you clasp ages for 1 and past 3 move up astatine once. Asus, Samsung, and MSI are each announcing nan industry’s next-generation QD-OLED gaming monitors that relationship nan benefits of 4K OLED 240Hz panels astatine nan smaller 27-inch size alternatively of 32 inches.

All 3 look to beryllium utilizing nan aforesaid 4th procreation QD-OLED expanse from Samsung Display, which Asus says offers “a longer lifespan complete previous-gen OLEDs.” Both nan Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM and nan MSI MPG 272URX QD-OLED (who names these things?) spot DisplayPort 2.1a (UHBR20), which offers 80Gbps of bandwidth to support 4K astatine 240Hz without nan petition for Display Stream Compression (DSC). Samsung’s spot merchandise astir its Odyssey OLED G8 (G81SF) doesn’t mention DisplayPort 2.1a compatibility, but it’s reasonable to presume it’s information of nan spec list.

MSI and Asus’ models immoderate support DisplayHDR True Black 400, and Asus too supports Dolby Vision HDR. Both MSI and Asus are offering a three-year warranty that includes burn-in protection, but Samsung hasn’t confirmed its warranty business for its latest G8 model. Samsung too hasn’t afloat elaborate nan specs of its latest G8 OLED model, but it’s reasonable to presume it will support DisplayHDR True Black 400 astatine nan minimum.

Interestingly, Asus’ exemplary only has a 26.5-inch viewable display, but immoderate MSI and Samsung are trading their monitors arsenic 27-inch ones. With each 3 offering nan 0.03ms consequence times of OLED, 240Hz refresh rates, and supra 160PPI, nan premier will really recreation down to design, features, and pricing. Unfortunately, Samsung, Asus, and MSI haven’t announced merchandise dates aliases pricing yet.