The Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ G-SYNC HDR Monitor Review: Gaming With All The Bells and Whistles
by Nate Oh on October 2, 2018 10:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Monitors
- Displays
- Asus
- NVIDIA
- G-Sync
- PG27UQ
- ROG Swift PG27UQ
- G-Sync HDR
Display Uniformity and Power Usage
Especially with localized dimming, the PG27UQ's panel uniformity was solid. In the default out-of-the-box configuration (FALD enabled), the maximum local difference of white levels is around 5% of the center brightness.
Black levels were more uneven, with a general trend of brighter blacks towards the top and darker blacks towards the bottom.
Color reproduction across the panel, however, is excellent, and virtually imperceptible between different parts of the display.
Power Use
As far as power usage goes, the PG27UQ has been specified for a peak 180W with HDR on. Stand-by was specified at 0.5W, but in practice the monitor often idled for some time around 27W in the power-off mode, before finally going to sub-1W power draw. The fan is on at that time, and it's not exactly clear how this state is governed.
With G-Sync and HDR enabled, peaks of around 150W to 160W were observed during gaming, with a peak of 162W. In SDR mode, power consumption is more-or-less in line with typical monitors.
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lilkwarrior - Monday, October 8, 2018 - link
SLI & Crossfire are succeeded by DX12's & Vulkan's explicit multi-GPU mode. Nvidia deleiberately even ported NVLINK (succeeds classic SLI) to RTX cards from Quadro+ cards but without memory pooling because DX12 & Vulkan already provides that for GPUs.Devs have to use DX12 or Vulkan and support such features that is easier for them to consider now that Windows 8 mainstream support is over + ray-tracing that's available only on DX12 & Vulkan.
nathanddrews - Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - link
Still cheaper than my Sony FW-900 CRT was when it was brand new! LOLHixbot - Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - link
Still not better than a fw-900 in many ways. This LCD doesn't have a strobing feature to reduce eye tracking motion blur.nathanddrews - Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - link
No argument there, but my FW900 died, so the options are few...Crazyeyeskillah - Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - link
my fw-900 is also dead in my closet, hoping of resurrecting it one day. Right now I got another excellent crt monitor I found to game on: Sony Multiscan E540 : It's not as big, but god damn is it smooth and flawless.By the time this crt dies, hopefully LCD tech won't be such garbage trying to make workaround for its inferior tech for gaming.
nathanddrews - Thursday, October 4, 2018 - link
Yeah, I've moved on to a Sony C520K for the last ~2 years. In use I think it's far better than my FW900 was in terms of contrast/color plus I'm able to push slightly higher refresh rates, but it's not widescreen. I have bought a couple expensive G-Sync displays, hoping for an adequate replacement, but ended up returning them. I'm really hoping that this CRT lasts until MicroLED hits the market and that mLED can truly combine the best attributes of LCD and OLED without any of the drawbacks.Ironchef3500 - Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - link
100%Tunnah - Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - link
I don't get the point. You don't need the features for desktop work, so this is purely a gaming feature. Why not get an equally capable OLED/QLED at a much bigger size for less money ?Inteli - Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - link
TVs don't support native high refresh rates from sources like monitors do (I think LG's does, but only from USB sources or something like that) or adaptive refresh rates. It's a gaming monitor, so it has gaming-specific features.imaheadcase - Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - link
You answered own question, because its a gaming monitor. You can't find one like this (yet) that offers all the things it does.You like many people are confused on this website about TV vs monitors. A TV equal size, same resolution, is not the same as a dedicated monitor. A LG OLED 55 inch TV looks pretty bland when you use a PC monitor for gaming.