Asus has the new world’s fastest OLED monitor at 720Hz, and it’s dripping with style

We mightiness person a caller king of esports gaming monitors — 1 with less compromises than usual. Asus has conscionable announced the ROG Swift OLED PG27AQWP-W astatine Gamescom 2025. Not lone does it connection a 26.5-inch 2560 x 1440 QHD OLED surface astatine a blazing-fast 540Hz, it’s besides a dual-mode sheet that tin power to a practically unheard-of 720Hz refresh complaint erstwhile you footwear the graphics down to 1080p* resolution.

Asus whitethorn not technically person the fastest show ever made, arsenic both Koorui and HKC person announced 750Hz 1080p monitors, but some of those person TN panels that won’t adjacent statesman to vie connected color, brightness, and viewing angles. They’re from brands we don’t typically spot successful occidental countries, and neither lets you power to higher solution erstwhile you don’t request all the speed.

Meanwhile, the Asus isn’t conscionable OLED — it’s a tandem OLED sheet that should dramatically boost HDR brightness and allegedly amended lifespan. It’s besides got a glossy coating that could marque its colors adjacent much vibrant and its blacks adjacent blacker than OLED tech tin already afford, assuming you’re not playing successful a country with glare (though Asus claims the coating minimizes glare “even successful agleam rooms.”)

Here’s the portion wherever I’d usually accidental “who needs 540Hz fto unsocial 720Hz? Have you done the mathematics and seen the diminishing returns?” Instead, I’m excessively engaged gaping astatine Asus’ stunning caller metallic and translucent integrative design. Clear gadgets are near and beloved to my heart, aft all, and the skeletal metallic truly makes it basal retired successful a oversea of black-framed panels.

Unfortunately, we don’t person pricing oregon a merchandise day yet, and I fishy it’ll outgo a beauteous penny due to the fact that Asus chose that groundbreaking sheet and did each that enactment to acceptable it apart. Seeing much OLED show prices travel down to earth would excite maine adjacent much than a caller flagship similar this.

Also, I would similar a smaller basal to the immense three-blade propeller, but unfortunately, Asus does marque you compromise to get that. The company’s besides introducing a caller ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG contiguous with the aforesaid tandem OLED tech, but arsenic you tin spot successful the one-pager below, it’s a 280Hz sheet that inactive relies connected either HDMI 2.1 oregon DisplayPort 1.4’s DSC compression, alternatively than the flagship’s caller DisplayPort 2.1a which boasts 80Gbps of bandwidth.

Both person Asus’ “Neo Proximity Sensor,” a comparatively caller diagnostic it’s been adding to OLED panels, “to accurately measurement the user’s region to the monitor and automatically power to a achromatic surface erstwhile the idiosyncratic is away,” arsenic an other extortion against burn-in. Asus besides tends to connection a three-year warranty against OLED burn-in these days, and some LG Display and Samsung Display’s newer panels person galore protections against it; arsenic agelong arsenic those protections aren’t over-aggressive, burn-in is nary longer a crushed I’d personally steer away.

Just cognize that different show makers volition astir apt usage the aforesaid 4th-gen WOLED tandem sheet from LG Display, too. SDC has already announced one, and different brands mightiness travel suit.

*If you’ve heard of 720Hz before, it’s astir apt due to the fact that LG Display already announced the dual-mode 720Hz panel that appears successful this monitor. And if you’re wondering wherefore we accidental 1080p alternatively than 720p as others are reporting, it’s due to the fact that we fact-checked with some Asus and LG Display that the sheet is 1080p astatine 720Hz. We’ll fto you cognize if we perceive different.