What simply occurred? With the beginning of CES 2025 now simply days away, corporations are dashing to disclose their new merchandise forward of the world’s largest shopper electronics occasion. Three tech giants have simply unveiled 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz screens, and a minimum of two help DisplayPort 2.1a.
Asus, Samsung, and MSI have introduced their claims for producing the world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz screens, all utilizing Samsung’s 4th-generation QD-OLED panels.
The Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM, which has a display dimension of 26.5 inches, boasts a peak brightness of 1,000 nits, HDR10 and Dolby Imaginative and prescient help, a 0.03ms response time, VESA DisplayHDR 400 True Black compliance, and extra.
MSI’s monitor is the MSI MPG 272URX QD-OLED. Its spec record shares many similarities to Asus’ monitor, whereas additionally together with help for VRR and ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode). It is DisplayHDR 400 True Black compliant and ClearMR 13000 licensed – the latter is the best tier for the metric that compares the ratio of clear pixels to blurry pixels throughout movement. It presents a 166PPI show, however there is not any Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR help.
The ultimate monitor is Samsung’s Odyssey OLED G8. Just like the others, it boasts VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400 and G-Sync/FreeSync Premium Professional compatibility, together with 165 PPI on its display.
Each new screens from Asus and MSI embrace DisplayPort 2.1a (UHBR20). The usual presents 80Gbps bandwidth, permitting customers to get pleasure from 4K at 240Hz with out the necessity for Show Stream Compression (DSC). Samsung would not say something about DisplayPort 2.1a in its launch, but it surely’s honest to imagine that it will be there.
The screens additionally help HDMI 2.1; it was lately confirmed that HDMI 2.2 might be unveiled at CES, but it surely’ll be a very long time earlier than that commonplace seems in screens and shopper televisions.
The screens include superior OLED protections, resembling MSI OLED care 2.0 and Asus OLED care Professional. These two corporations additionally supply a three-year guarantee that features burn-in safety. Samsung has but to substantiate its guarantee specifics.
Final week we heard that LG plans to unveil new UltraGear OLED screens at CES, together with a 45-inch 5K2K bendable mannequin with dual-mode performance. Asrock additionally has an upcoming dual-mode monitor with built-in Wi-Fi 7 antennas.
