4K 240 HZ or 2K 480 HZ what a time to be
alive not only is there an endgame monitor there are endgame monitors these
days depending on what it is you're looking for do you want blazing fast
refresh rates for perfect motion Clarity or do you want pixel density that's so
tight that both games and text are going to look sharp and detail AF well as Su
sponsored this video so I could make up my mind and get ready for the RTX 5090
whenever that might launch by sending over their new fourth generation QD OLED
monitor the pg27 ucdm this thing is so
new it doesn't even have a retail box
yet as for what's inside the box it slices it dices it even has what so many
of you have been waiting for ultra high bit rate or uh hbr2 on a 27in display so
I get every frame burned into my retinas at a full up to 80 gbit per second
that's right this is the world's first 4K 240 HZ 27in QD Leed display that
isn't limited by display stream compression and it's all mine the only
problem is I don't think even my PC is worthy of such a display we're going to
get to this in a moment but first the first things first and the first thing
is we've got to take my current 480 HZ monitor out as much as I have been
absolutely loving this thing if the the rumors are true then the 90 should be
the first true High refresh rate 4K
gaming cart isn't it wild to think how just a few short years ago we were
examining whether there was a clear advantage to upgrading to a cuttingedge
240 HZ display and now I'm sitting here
downgrading my 480 HZ display to 240 HZ
but I get a lot in return I get over two
times the resolution because it's 4 K and with no compression and because it's
OLED sure OLED is expensive but it's got
amazing HDR capabilities thanks to its Inky blacks and high peak brightness
these days not to mention accurate colors and absolutely incredible motion
Clarity like it used to be that even at the high end you were choosing between
different technologies that had really important trade-offs you could have VA
with bad viewing angles you could have IPS with bad contrast or you could have
TN which was fast but just not as good for image
quality no more now that I've got this out of the box it's a perfect time to
show you guys the io we've got dual HDMI inputs for your game console or what
have you a USBC input with 90 wats of
power delivery so you can use DisplayPort alt mode with your laptop and of
course the big star of the show our DP input with up to 80 gbit per second of
bandwidth that's right folks dp2
2.1 we'll talk more about it later for now let's get this assembled and turned
on at the base of the tool is stand we've got asus's little desk projection
thing you can 3D print your own lenses and throw them in there project whatever
you want onto your desk and nipple based navigation for excellent ease of use now
one potential drawback of OLED is of course image retention and
burning but OLED care and protection has come a long way for example the pg27
ucdm has a Neo proximity sensor which
basically means that if you get up from the desk and forget to turn it off or
put it to sleep it'll automatically swap to a black screen okay that's pretty
cool we're going to have to try that but even if you didn't have it most media
Outlets have found that you really need to drive these things into the ground to
get properly noticeable retention and most of them like this one come with a
3-year warranty anyway let's fire it
up okay this is going to be a bit of an ele in the room when it comes to display
port 2.1 with uhb 20 or ultra high bit
rate 20 see this yeah it gives us 80 gbit per second
of bandwidth so that we don't have to deal with any compression but um just
like any other cable standard Ethernet USB HDMI the more bandwidth we get the
shorter the cable has to be in order to maintain signal Integrity now there are
some longer fiber optic versions out out there but selections limited and they're
pretty expensive so my computer needs to
be like a a right there also problem number du is that
while DisplayPort is physically forward and backwards compatible you see I can
take my brand new DisplayPort 2.1 cable and put it in my existing GPU the only
card that will actually support the new higher data rates is AMD's workstation
w79 00 Pro that's a $3500 card that's
not meant for gaming so if you want to game over this connection you're going
to have to wait for the availability of the RTX 5090 you know what you won't
have to wait for the tech bro vest from LTT Store.com much pocket very
Comfort y it's clear to get the most out of this thing I am going to need a GPU
upgrade but there's nothing to upgrade to today so for now let's see what it
can do with an RTX 4090
by default that is not 240 HZ but my
goodness now as someone who uses gaming
monitors predominantly um I don't really dabble in 4k because there aren't gpus
yet that can really drive it at a high refresh rate so I haven't really looked
at a 27in 4K display in a while but that is wow is that ever dense 166 pixels per
inch it's clean it's sharp let's turn it up to 240
HZ and see if there's an immediate and obvious difference cuz the thing is no
display stream compression is obviously better but we've already said in the
past that picking up the difference between DSC and not DSC is not that easy
so can you use this thing if you just have an older GPU I mean won't get the
frame rates for it but you can connect it with your cute little
cable does Doom maternal have a chance 4K 240 on a 49 I don't think so I'm kind
of thinking plof maybe for today what we do is we go at 4K okay so we get that
Clarity but we just I don't know turn the details down to eliminate GPU
bottlenecking it's wild to me that you can just have like HDR and really great
color and almost perfect pixel response
times like it's like I said what a time to be alive
all right at medium settings we can get
330 frames per second it's so sharp I know it's crazy sharp
like I keep thinking oh yeah endgame monitor whoever needs a new monitor and
then they keep coming up with new monitor and it keeps being like insane
like insane the level of improvement that we're getting from generation to
generation here it looks dare I say
perfect it's probably pretty close it's
so sharp dude I know like if you're like
if you're in there you know you're like in close you're gaming boys dude so
sharp God the clarity is so like you do a whip and it's just instant oh it's
perfect right actually I mean h the p
word is such a dangerous word but oh here's something we should talk
about obviously this thing supports variable refresh rate with g-sync but
some folks out there have complained pretty loudly about vrr flicker on oleds
personally I haven't found that it bothers me that much but if you are the
kind of person who's affected by it Asus claims their new anti flicker 2.0 with
Dynamic brightness algorithm should reduce that flicker by up to 20% like I
said um not really impacted by it but
neat Let's uh let's fire up something that we can like run at a lot of FPS I'm
bad at this game I'm Dum oh come on come
on what was that not even getting that many FPS man really yeah like 220
we need new gpus even for flipping Counter Strike dude it's so responsive 2
140 HZ it's a lot 4K it's sharp if I
miss it's on me sometimes I don't miss wi Motion Plus
hey hey hey hey no no no no no no oh I'm stuck run run
away's we don't have to play video games on this thing yeah which is good good
because not all of us are great at video games wait is Halo on here oh tempting
but no we're going to check out something else
first damn if you're the kind of person who
watches movies at your monitor which a lot of people are I mean I was for years
and years oh I have the perfect add-on for
this DMS sent me over his project Omega
headphon which obviously the headphone jack on this monitor is not going to be
the world's greatest headphone amp or anything like that but I haven't gotten
a chance to try them yet and I really really really want to
try them and while I'm enjoying this
beautiful footage seems like as good a time as any I'm looking for the
proximity sensor thing here and you can dial in both your OLED anti flicker and
your HDR format so you can select hdr10 or Dolby Vision oh here it is Neo
proximity sensor okay so depending on
how close you sit to your display like if you're a lean back and watch movies
kind of person you can set it to not kick in until you're 1.2 M away so that
would be about about 4 ft uh let's set it to that screen off to 1 minute
oh oh look at that hey that was a minute
all right well hold on hold on but what I want to know is will it detect a
cat
yes hey that's about 1.2 M right yeah
that was actually really cool okay that's that's kind of nice because as
much as I'd love to be able to rely on Windows to handle power States and turn
monitors on and off properly I've actually had a big issue with these land
computers where the monitor will still
be getting some kind of signal so the backlight stays on even though the image
goes dark I'm just kind of like like if
that could just be handled by the monitor I consider that a
win this is no longer required as part of our video plan but uh going to fire
up some Halo infinite and I got to say man like I am blown away at how good
display stream compression is cuz remember we're not even like running
this thing properly it full potential but it really makes me think like with
uh br20 are we going to be able to do like
600 HZ 1,000 HZ using
DSC the future's going to be awesome all
right this could affect my ability to click heads a little bit but
uh she's my sweetie
so oh here we go let's
go it's a rock paper scissors thing okay
rocket launcher beats sword sword beats starting gun starting gun beats nothing
you know how it is anywh
who I said when I saw the pricing of the 40 series that I was not going to go 40
series and I haven't I have held true to that but I never said that after waiting
an entire generation I wouldn't be willing to drop a bunch of money on a 50
Series I think a 50 series one of the
these might be in my future in the next little bit here thanks again Asus for
sending over this absolutely incredible display if you guys enjoyed this one
maybe you'll enjoy the one where we looked at their 480 HZ 1440p monitor
that one the one that I just took off my desk also an incredible
Choice what a time to be alive