The Monitor Review: Asus PG27AQN and its Impressive Performance

Turning the overdrive on drops the average initial response time to 1.74 milliseconds with many of the transitions now around that one millisecond mark, and a few of them just under that, which is a great result and surprisingly close to what a fast OLED would show for reference. The 240Hz OLED panel in the MSI ge67h X laptop sets an average initial response time of 0.95 milliseconds, and this PG27AQN sets a slightly higher average due to some transitions being a bit slower than that, but it is still extremely fast for an IPS panel.

The Esports mode improves some transitions but it is slightly worse in others with a bit more overshoot in general, which gives you a similar 1.64 millisecond average, and the highest OD setting, the extreme one, doesn't really improve anything now, usually this mode only exists to hit those marketing claims like a one millisecond response time, but previous modes managed to do that just fine, so I find this mode quite pointless to be honest, and you probably noticed that all three overdrive modes show some overshoot and they're even red in the graphs.

However, the interesting thing here is that while this panel tends to easily overshoot by a noticeable amount, the actual duration of that overshoot is very short, and when you combine that with a very high refresh rate, it is a very very hard to subjectively notice overshoot at all. So if you look at the UFOs flying by, they look super sharp, better than the best motion blur reduction modes I've seen on other monitors, and the text in the League of Legends is clearly legible even at high speeds, and we can also see that in actual games.

Motion Clarity is just really impressive and noticeably better than on the PG259QNR, the F532Q, as well as the 240Hz Fi27QX. Asus claims that the Esports G-Sync mode has the best response times and latency but response times looked pretty similar, and if I look at input latency, there is only a 0.1 millisecond difference between the Esports and the normal mode, so you can just pick whichever of the two looks best to you.

I did retest the input latency on several monitors with my new I9 13900K and the RTX 4090 test bunch, and this monitor did perform really well, it beats the Eve Spectrum, the M32U, and the LG G1 OLED TV however, the Gigabyte FI 32Q is slightly faster but that does fall within the margin of error, and the PG259QNR was still a millisecond faster. I did try various settings to see if I can get the input lagged down by that extra millisecond but couldn't really get it any lower, both disabling the G-Sync or swapping to the 360Hz 1080p Esports mode only showed fraction of a millisecond changes which is basically within a margin of error and going to 1440p 240Hz actually made it worse by about two milliseconds.

So just stick to 1440p 360Hz or the Esports dual mode and you will be just fine. Now I don't know what this monitor will cost in Europe just yet but Asus listed this panel for one thousand and fifty dollars in their US store which is a lot but it's also a pretty typical price for a high-end monitor that pushes the limits in one way or another.

After using this monitor for a couple of weeks, especially after seeing how well it does in some of the faster games like Modern Warfare 2 for example, it's really easy to see the appeal especially for anyone that takes competitive games seriously. It is really fast, the motion Clarity is genuinely impressive and unlike earlier 360Hz monitors that were all full HD you actually get a well-rounded monitor experience outside of competitive games it will be great in slower immersion style games that benefit from that higher resolution but you can also use it for work or for school or even some photo and video editing.

Just kind of need to make sure that you take Competitive Gaming seriously enough because you can get a 144Hz Quad HD panel for half the price that would be just fine for casual gamers. This monitor is for those of you that want to push limits and that are not afraid to be early adopters and get these new Fast panels that might offer a slight advantage and that might give you that extra Edge that is very important in Competitive Gaming.

That's it, now that is all I have for today, today I really hope you enjoyed this video, let me know in the comments down below what you think about this Monitor and if this is something that you would consider getting for yourself. If you want to see more monitor reviews like this one please do click that subscribe button because I have a few more interesting panels that I'm working on at the moment. Bye all and see you in the next one, bye thank you for watching.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enright here I have the very first monitor that combines a 360 Hertz refresh rate with a Quad HD resolution the Rog Swift pg27 aqn and this isn't just a regular 240Hz monitor that has been heavily overclocked it is a brand new 27 inch panel with ultra fast IPS technology that is supposed to offer the fastest response times of any IPS panel ever made but at the same time it is also supposed to offer a high resolution that is worth using outside of Competitive Gaming and while it offers some very specific Esports features it also offers a lot of useful non-competitive features like HDR 600 and a white color gamut for some creative use as well so let's see how this new panel performs and if it's as exciting in use as it is on paper let's go this video is brought to you by seasonic and their Prime TX power supplies these fully modular high quality power supplies are extremely efficient they are very quiet due to their new hybrid fan control that stops the fans completely under 40 load they offer a variety of connections for any kind of systems you have in mind and you even get the new 12 volt high power connection you need for the brand new RTX 490 graphics cards from Nvidia the pg27aqn is a 27 inch monitor with a flat IPS panel it looks pretty much the same as other Rog monitors before it the metal base is very sturdy and the stand is ergonomic it is height adjustable you can tilt it you can swivel it you can rotate it 90 degrees and you can even base amount it if you prefer design wise it looks very gamey it has big plastic panels on the back with a large RGB logo and on the front there is a noticeable bottom bezel with a little logo on it and while the top and side bezel seem to be very thin while the monitor is off the pixels don't start completely at the edge so you do end up with noticeable bezels on all sides when the monitor is on in terms of connections you get one DisplayPort 1.4 connection three HDMI 2.0 connections a USB hub and an audio jack there is no USB type-c connection since it's HDMI 2.0 you are limited to 1440p 240 hertz over those HDMI ports which isn't a huge problem as neither an Xbox series X or the PlayStation 5 can do more than 120 hertz on 1440p so to get 360 Hertz on this resolution you need to connect your PC via the DisplayPort connection now technically DisplayPort 1.4 also doesn't have the bandwidth for 1440p 360 Hertz but that is where display stream compression comes in so this should not be an issue either on the back of the monitor you get a little joystick and several buttons to control the OSD and the OSD itself is nicely laid out and it is very user friendly and intuitive you get the usual features like various color profiles and controls but there are also a ton of specific gaming related features like overdrive settings like dark boosts to improve the visibility even more like various crosshairs and so on it has the Nvidia g-sync module for that smooth gaming experience and it also has the Nvidia reflex analyzer that can display extra information about the latency of your system while you're gaming and this is very useful for us reviewers because we always swap different Hardware around but it can also be helpful for the end user because you can see the effect of different in-game settings on your latency this is a 27 inch Quad HD monitor and I personally like this size and this resolution a lot it offers a very nice Middle Ground between smaller monitors that are great for Competitive Gaming and larger monitors that are great for that that immersion gaming compared to a 27 inch 1080p display you do get a higher DPI and a much Sharper Image and while it really helps your productivity because you just have more space on your screen it also makes games look much better Nvidia claims that this size and resolution will somehow improve your aiming performance by three percent but if you prefer a 25 inch screen you can enable the Esports dual mode feature that will make the visible part of the display smaller and let you play competitive titles on a 25-inch display instead you can also choose if you want to go down to 1080P or you can pick the pixel match 2368 by 1332p mode which does look better and does offer more sharpness than the full HD one so with this dual mode feature you get the best of both worlds a 27 inch quality display that is great for bigger AAA titles for productivity and for that every every day all around use but you also get a smaller 25 inch display for super Competitive Gaming where you can easily keep an eye on everything that's going on on the screen but let's see how this panel performs in SDR mode the peak brightness hits 465 nits which is excellent and noticeably brighter than most fast 27 inch monitors I've seen so far in HDR mode it goes even brighter measuring 713 nits which is actually kind of impressive it is better than most regular IPS and VA panels with only some OLED or mini LED panels going significantly brighter than that and it is able to hold that brightness even when most of the screen is showing white and it goes just under 600 nits when the entire screen is set to White so this should be a very good base for a proper HDR experience but I'll talk about HDR a bit later it dims down to 53 nits which isn't the lower this but I think it should be more than fine for gaming in very dark rooms as well in terms of color performance this monitor does reasonably well it is not a proper wide gamut panel like some others in this graph but you still get a full srgb gamut coverage and about 92 percent P3 coverage which is more than most gaming panels offer the factory calibration is excellent as well out of the box it is almost perfectly calibrated to DCI P3 showing excellent gray and color accuracy so you could easily do some photo and video editing right out of the box there is an srgb profile as well however for this panel to be accurate in srgb you need to set both the color profile to srgb as well as the color space setting to srgb which is in another part of the menu completely if you only do one of these things you won't get accurate colors at all which is totally confusing and something that Asus could definitely improve on in my opinion but once you set them both correctly it shows a great srdb accuracy there is also a dedicated Esports color profile which is very bright and over saturated it can improve visibility in games by a bid but it's obviously not accurate in any way viewing angles are great as you would expect from an IPS panel both horizontally and vertically and on this sample there was no noticeable backlight blade unfortunately the uniformity wasn't that great when showing 263 nits in the center of the screen the bottom left corner drops to 198 nits and that is a 25 of a difference that will affect color and gray accuracy a bit now poor uniformity is pretty common to see in new panels that push technology forward so it is not completely unexpected and even though I do think that future panels can improve on this you won't actually see or notice this in regular use still if you do end up buying this panel try to display some single colors on it right away to test the uniformity and to see if it will bother you or not so you have enough time to return it if it does power consumption is a little bit higher than usual for a 27 inch IPS monitor standing at 47 Watts while displaying a 250 nit image now some people won't care about this but if you're paying close to a euro per kilowatt hour like we do here in the Netherlands these details might be a bit more important to you another weakness of this monitor is contrast which is also expected considering this is an IPS panel VA panels panels with proper local dimming or OLED panels will offer a much better contrast ratio but they'll come with their own downsides as well this panel does have a variable backlight option but it is an edge lit LCD and you can clearly see the vertical zones when you turn the variable backlight on and as you can see it just doesn't look that good a good HDR experience needs to have great contrast ratios with proper local dimming and those deep blacks but that clearly isn't the case here and while it does offer enough brightness for HDR mode the color gamut isn't as wide as I would like it to be for a proper HDR experience and so the Vasa HDR 600 label is a little bit questionable here still I do suggest you try it in different games and see if that higher brightness does help a bit and if HDR mode looks better than the SDR mode or not because at the end of the day this monitor is not about HDR it is about speed and you have four different overdrive settings to choose from now starting with it being off we can already see it is a very fast panel with some transitions being around 2 milliseconds or even just below that turning the overdrive on drops the average initial response time to 1.74 milliseconds with many of the transitions now around that one millisecond Mark and a few of them just under that which is a great result and surprisingly close to what a fast OLED would show for reference the 240Hz OLED panel in the MSI ge67h X laptop set an average initial response time of 0.95 milliseconds and this pg27aqn sets a slightly higher average due to some transitions being a bit slower than that but it is still extremely fast for an IPS panel the Esports mode improves some transitions but it is slightly worse in others with a bit more overshoot in general which gives you a similar 1.64 millisecond average and the highest OD setting the extreme one doesn't really improve anything now usually this mode only exists to hit those marketing claims like a one millisecond response times but previous modes managed to do that just fine so I find this mode quite pointless to be honest and you probably noticed that all three overdrive modes show some overshoot and they're even red in the graphs but the interesting thing here is that while this panel tends to easily overshoot by a noticeable amount the actual duration of that overshoot is very short and then when you combine that with a very high refresh rate it is a very very hard to subjectively notice overshoot at all so if you look at the UFOs flying by they look super sharp better than the best motion blur reduction modes I've seen on other monitors and the text in the League of Legends is clearly legible even at high speeds and we can also see that in actual games so motion Clarity is just really impressive and noticeably better than on the pg259qnr the f532q as well as the 240 hertz fi27qx in their marketing Asus claims that the Esports g-sync mode has the best response times and latency but response times looked pretty similar and if I look at input latency there is only a 0.1 millisecond difference between the Esports and the normal mode so you can just pick whichever of the two looks best to you I did retest the input latency on several monitors with my new I9 13900k and the RTX 4090 testbunch and this monitor did perform really well it beats the eve Spectrum the m32u and the LG G1 OLED TV however the gigabyte fi 32q is slightly faster but that does fall within the margin of error and the pg259 qnr was still a millisecond faster I did try various settings to see if I can get the input lagged down by that extra millisecond but I couldn't really get it any lower both disabling the g-sync or swapping to the 360 Hertz 1080p Esports mode only showed fraction of a millisecond changes which is basically within a margin of error and going to 1440p 240 hertz actually made it worse by about two milliseconds so just stick to 1440p 360 Hertz or the Esports dual mode and you will be just fine now I don't know what this monitor will cost in Europe just yet but Asus listed this panel for one thousand and fifty dollars in their Us store which is a lot but it is also a pretty typical price for a high-end monitor that pushes the limits in one way or another and after using this monitor for a couple of weeks and especially after seeing how well it does in some of the faster games like Modern Warfare 2 for example it is really easy to see the appeal especially for anyone that takes competitive games seriously it is really fast the motion Clarity is genuinely impressive and unlike earlier 360 Hertz monitors that were all full HD you actually get a well-rounded monitor experience outside of competitive games it will be great in slower immersion style games that benefit from that higher resolution but you can also use it for work or for school or even some photo and video editing you just kind of need to make sure that you take Competitive Gaming seriously enough because you can get a 144hz Quad HD panel for half the price that would be just fine for casual gamers so this monitor is for those of you that want to push limits and that are not afraid to be early adopters and get these new Fast panels that might offer a slight advantage and that might give you that extra Edge that is very important in Competitive Gaming that's it now that is all I have for today today I really hope you enjoyed this video let me know in the comments down below what you think about this Monitor and if this is something that you would consider getting for yourself and if you want to see more monitor reviews like this one please do click that subscribe button because I have a few more interesting panels that I'm working on at the moment bye all and see you in the next one bye thank youright here I have the very first monitor that combines a 360 Hertz refresh rate with a Quad HD resolution the Rog Swift pg27 aqn and this isn't just a regular 240Hz monitor that has been heavily overclocked it is a brand new 27 inch panel with ultra fast IPS technology that is supposed to offer the fastest response times of any IPS panel ever made but at the same time it is also supposed to offer a high resolution that is worth using outside of Competitive Gaming and while it offers some very specific Esports features it also offers a lot of useful non-competitive features like HDR 600 and a white color gamut for some creative use as well so let's see how this new panel performs and if it's as exciting in use as it is on paper let's go this video is brought to you by seasonic and their Prime TX power supplies these fully modular high quality power supplies are extremely efficient they are very quiet due to their new hybrid fan control that stops the fans completely under 40 load they offer a variety of connections for any kind of systems you have in mind and you even get the new 12 volt high power connection you need for the brand new RTX 490 graphics cards from Nvidia the pg27aqn is a 27 inch monitor with a flat IPS panel it looks pretty much the same as other Rog monitors before it the metal base is very sturdy and the stand is ergonomic it is height adjustable you can tilt it you can swivel it you can rotate it 90 degrees and you can even base amount it if you prefer design wise it looks very gamey it has big plastic panels on the back with a large RGB logo and on the front there is a noticeable bottom bezel with a little logo on it and while the top and side bezel seem to be very thin while the monitor is off the pixels don't start completely at the edge so you do end up with noticeable bezels on all sides when the monitor is on in terms of connections you get one DisplayPort 1.4 connection three HDMI 2.0 connections a USB hub and an audio jack there is no USB type-c connection since it's HDMI 2.0 you are limited to 1440p 240 hertz over those HDMI ports which isn't a huge problem as neither an Xbox series X or the PlayStation 5 can do more than 120 hertz on 1440p so to get 360 Hertz on this resolution you need to connect your PC via the DisplayPort connection now technically DisplayPort 1.4 also doesn't have the bandwidth for 1440p 360 Hertz but that is where display stream compression comes in so this should not be an issue either on the back of the monitor you get a little joystick and several buttons to control the OSD and the OSD itself is nicely laid out and it is very user friendly and intuitive you get the usual features like various color profiles and controls but there are also a ton of specific gaming related features like overdrive settings like dark boosts to improve the visibility even more like various crosshairs and so on it has the Nvidia g-sync module for that smooth gaming experience and it also has the Nvidia reflex analyzer that can display extra information about the latency of your system while you're gaming and this is very useful for us reviewers because we always swap different Hardware around but it can also be helpful for the end user because you can see the effect of different in-game settings on your latency this is a 27 inch Quad HD monitor and I personally like this size and this resolution a lot it offers a very nice Middle Ground between smaller monitors that are great for Competitive Gaming and larger monitors that are great for that that immersion gaming compared to a 27 inch 1080p display you do get a higher DPI and a much Sharper Image and while it really helps your productivity because you just have more space on your screen it also makes games look much better Nvidia claims that this size and resolution will somehow improve your aiming performance by three percent but if you prefer a 25 inch screen you can enable the Esports dual mode feature that will make the visible part of the display smaller and let you play competitive titles on a 25-inch display instead you can also choose if you want to go down to 1080P or you can pick the pixel match 2368 by 1332p mode which does look better and does offer more sharpness than the full HD one so with this dual mode feature you get the best of both worlds a 27 inch quality display that is great for bigger AAA titles for productivity and for that every every day all around use but you also get a smaller 25 inch display for super Competitive Gaming where you can easily keep an eye on everything that's going on on the screen but let's see how this panel performs in SDR mode the peak brightness hits 465 nits which is excellent and noticeably brighter than most fast 27 inch monitors I've seen so far in HDR mode it goes even brighter measuring 713 nits which is actually kind of impressive it is better than most regular IPS and VA panels with only some OLED or mini LED panels going significantly brighter than that and it is able to hold that brightness even when most of the screen is showing white and it goes just under 600 nits when the entire screen is set to White so this should be a very good base for a proper HDR experience but I'll talk about HDR a bit later it dims down to 53 nits which isn't the lower this but I think it should be more than fine for gaming in very dark rooms as well in terms of color performance this monitor does reasonably well it is not a proper wide gamut panel like some others in this graph but you still get a full srgb gamut coverage and about 92 percent P3 coverage which is more than most gaming panels offer the factory calibration is excellent as well out of the box it is almost perfectly calibrated to DCI P3 showing excellent gray and color accuracy so you could easily do some photo and video editing right out of the box there is an srgb profile as well however for this panel to be accurate in srgb you need to set both the color profile to srgb as well as the color space setting to srgb which is in another part of the menu completely if you only do one of these things you won't get accurate colors at all which is totally confusing and something that Asus could definitely improve on in my opinion but once you set them both correctly it shows a great srdb accuracy there is also a dedicated Esports color profile which is very bright and over saturated it can improve visibility in games by a bid but it's obviously not accurate in any way viewing angles are great as you would expect from an IPS panel both horizontally and vertically and on this sample there was no noticeable backlight blade unfortunately the uniformity wasn't that great when showing 263 nits in the center of the screen the bottom left corner drops to 198 nits and that is a 25 of a difference that will affect color and gray accuracy a bit now poor uniformity is pretty common to see in new panels that push technology forward so it is not completely unexpected and even though I do think that future panels can improve on this you won't actually see or notice this in regular use still if you do end up buying this panel try to display some single colors on it right away to test the uniformity and to see if it will bother you or not so you have enough time to return it if it does power consumption is a little bit higher than usual for a 27 inch IPS monitor standing at 47 Watts while displaying a 250 nit image now some people won't care about this but if you're paying close to a euro per kilowatt hour like we do here in the Netherlands these details might be a bit more important to you another weakness of this monitor is contrast which is also expected considering this is an IPS panel VA panels panels with proper local dimming or OLED panels will offer a much better contrast ratio but they'll come with their own downsides as well this panel does have a variable backlight option but it is an edge lit LCD and you can clearly see the vertical zones when you turn the variable backlight on and as you can see it just doesn't look that good a good HDR experience needs to have great contrast ratios with proper local dimming and those deep blacks but that clearly isn't the case here and while it does offer enough brightness for HDR mode the color gamut isn't as wide as I would like it to be for a proper HDR experience and so the Vasa HDR 600 label is a little bit questionable here still I do suggest you try it in different games and see if that higher brightness does help a bit and if HDR mode looks better than the SDR mode or not because at the end of the day this monitor is not about HDR it is about speed and you have four different overdrive settings to choose from now starting with it being off we can already see it is a very fast panel with some transitions being around 2 milliseconds or even just below that turning the overdrive on drops the average initial response time to 1.74 milliseconds with many of the transitions now around that one millisecond Mark and a few of them just under that which is a great result and surprisingly close to what a fast OLED would show for reference the 240Hz OLED panel in the MSI ge67h X laptop set an average initial response time of 0.95 milliseconds and this pg27aqn sets a slightly higher average due to some transitions being a bit slower than that but it is still extremely fast for an IPS panel the Esports mode improves some transitions but it is slightly worse in others with a bit more overshoot in general which gives you a similar 1.64 millisecond average and the highest OD setting the extreme one doesn't really improve anything now usually this mode only exists to hit those marketing claims like a one millisecond response times but previous modes managed to do that just fine so I find this mode quite pointless to be honest and you probably noticed that all three overdrive modes show some overshoot and they're even red in the graphs but the interesting thing here is that while this panel tends to easily overshoot by a noticeable amount the actual duration of that overshoot is very short and then when you combine that with a very high refresh rate it is a very very hard to subjectively notice overshoot at all so if you look at the UFOs flying by they look super sharp better than the best motion blur reduction modes I've seen on other monitors and the text in the League of Legends is clearly legible even at high speeds and we can also see that in actual games so motion Clarity is just really impressive and noticeably better than on the pg259qnr the f532q as well as the 240 hertz fi27qx in their marketing Asus claims that the Esports g-sync mode has the best response times and latency but response times looked pretty similar and if I look at input latency there is only a 0.1 millisecond difference between the Esports and the normal mode so you can just pick whichever of the two looks best to you I did retest the input latency on several monitors with my new I9 13900k and the RTX 4090 testbunch and this monitor did perform really well it beats the eve Spectrum the m32u and the LG G1 OLED TV however the gigabyte fi 32q is slightly faster but that does fall within the margin of error and the pg259 qnr was still a millisecond faster I did try various settings to see if I can get the input lagged down by that extra millisecond but I couldn't really get it any lower both disabling the g-sync or swapping to the 360 Hertz 1080p Esports mode only showed fraction of a millisecond changes which is basically within a margin of error and going to 1440p 240 hertz actually made it worse by about two milliseconds so just stick to 1440p 360 Hertz or the Esports dual mode and you will be just fine now I don't know what this monitor will cost in Europe just yet but Asus listed this panel for one thousand and fifty dollars in their Us store which is a lot but it is also a pretty typical price for a high-end monitor that pushes the limits in one way or another and after using this monitor for a couple of weeks and especially after seeing how well it does in some of the faster games like Modern Warfare 2 for example it is really easy to see the appeal especially for anyone that takes competitive games seriously it is really fast the motion Clarity is genuinely impressive and unlike earlier 360 Hertz monitors that were all full HD you actually get a well-rounded monitor experience outside of competitive games it will be great in slower immersion style games that benefit from that higher resolution but you can also use it for work or for school or even some photo and video editing you just kind of need to make sure that you take Competitive Gaming seriously enough because you can get a 144hz Quad HD panel for half the price that would be just fine for casual gamers so this monitor is for those of you that want to push limits and that are not afraid to be early adopters and get these new Fast panels that might offer a slight advantage and that might give you that extra Edge that is very important in Competitive Gaming that's it now that is all I have for today today I really hope you enjoyed this video let me know in the comments down below what you think about this Monitor and if this is something that you would consider getting for yourself and if you want to see more monitor reviews like this one please do click that subscribe button because I have a few more interesting panels that I'm working on at the moment bye all and see you in the next one bye thank you\n"