The GOD of Monitors - ROG Swift PG27UQ
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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yeah we've got them linked in the video description you know what they do
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so this is it monitor monitor evolution has ended
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because i don't really understand how it gets a whole lot better than what i have
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in front of me today this is the rog swift pg27uq
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and it would be a lot easier for me to come up with a list of crazy amazing
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features that it doesn't have so 4k resolution 3840x2160
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HDR and i will get a little bit more into that later
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g-sync so that means if you're running an NVIDIA graphics card you've got
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support for variable refresh rate technology and
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it runs at 144
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hertz well how are they doing that
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what the what the crap is going on here so i so i pulled the plate off the back
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and it's running on a single cable
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so the only thing that i've seen it's got on the spec sheet here it's got HDMI
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but come on realistically this is an HDMI 2.1 they just finalized the spec
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like yesterday or something like that so it's displayport 1.4 it's got two inputs
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and i assumed it would be using two of them but then i thought wait a minute
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i just saw the dell 8k monitor
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that was running off of you guessed it
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two displayport 1.3 so they've got this
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all closed in here see this my friends ASUS won't tell me
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what's here but fortunately i have two hands
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i got two hands i know how this works okay well i can't tell exactly what they
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are but if i had to guess if i had to guess i would say that it's one of the
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only graphics cards on the market that has support for anything higher than
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displayport 1.2 so it's probably if i had to guess quadro p6000 sli
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nobody nobody's giving me any confirmation whatsoever okay i'm not going to stress about that too much the
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point is this thing's coming in sometime and by that time hopefully there will be
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a system that can run it all right more details though i said before HDR
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but the industry has kind of decided that HDR means anything above sdr when
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it comes to a consumer grade monitor ASUS not good enough for them there's a
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gaming display but they're like yeah no we're going to do it properly so we've got 384 zones of fully
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fully backlit array backlit lcd goodness which is allowing them to achieve 1000
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nitpeak brightness meaning that this display with hdr10 support is not only a
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gaming display it is also potentially and i don't know much about the color
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space coverage what do we got here you guys talking about that looks like not a
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whole lot but it's quantum dot so i'm assuming we're doing better than adobe
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RGB anyway there's nothing that would prevent this
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thing from being used for content creation what can't it do
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yeah the answer is pretty much nothing but just in case
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you don't like the gamer aesthetic well hey they've got the pa32u this puppy
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looks like it's built on a pretty darn similar platform so the same 384 direct
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zone direct led backlight 1000 nit peak
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brightness HDR support all that good stuff but on this
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one they are actually calling out 85 of
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rec 2020 coverage 99.5 of adobe RGB 95
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of dci p3 and 100 srgb support so this looks like it could
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be a candidate for us to move to an HDR workflow wink wink sometime in the
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future uh assuming that uh you know they can get it produced sometime in the in
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the next little bit here so how much is one of these gonna cost you
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i don't know lots let's say 1500
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maybe more but they're super cool
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