The Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ G-SYNC HDR Monitor Review: Gaming With All The Bells and Whistles

HDR Color And Luminance

New to our monitor workflow, we've utilized some of CalMAN's recent HDR Analysis workflow additions, again in the SpectraCal suite. As I don't have an HDR test pattern generator currently, we've utilized madTPG for the HDR pattern generator. To note, in SDR mode the monitor reports a "SDR-BT1886" EOTF (gamma) instead of "SDR-sRGB" when in YCbCr mode, but in HDR mode the EOTF is "HDR-ST2084".

Checking back on HDR brightness, we see that the peak brightness is around 1236 nits, reached when a 10% area of the screen was white. So there's definitely room to spare with respect to the 1000 nit minimum requirement.

SpectraCal CalMAN

The HDR gamut coverage matches what we saw with the SDR 'wide gamut' mode, confirming that it covers around 76% BT.2020 and 92% DCI-P3.

SpectraCal CalMAN

Originally in delta ICtCp format, which reportedly describes HDR more accurately, the metrics are in delta E for ease of comparison. The HDR10 media profile targets the BT.2020 space, so it's important to see how well devices designed for the more limited P3 gamut do inside this subset. In that respect the PG27UQ is able to do quite well, with dE's below 3 on color saturation sweeps.

SpectraCal CalMAN

As for chroma subsampling, the 4:2:2 mode kicks into effect when in HDR mode at 120Hz or above. The lack of full horizontal color data can be noticed in certain cases, such as colored text on colored backgrounds where font can become blurry.

4:2:2 (top) and 4:4:4 (bottom) as seen on 12 point font