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Asus has announced a new game monitor: the ROG Strix XG27WQ. It is a curved screen with a diagonal of 27 inches, a VA panel and a refresh rate of 165Hz.
The XG27WQ has a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels and a curvature of 1500r, or a radius of 1.5 meters. The monitor achieves peak brightness of 450cd / m² and features the DisplayHDR 400 label, which means that the screen meets the lowest set of requirements for an HDR monitor according to the standard of the VESA.
The screen has a contrast ratio of 3000: 1 and a specified gray-to-gray response time of 1ms. It can represent 92 percent of the dci-p3 color space. Furthermore, there is support for FreeSync Premium Pro, the former FreeSync 2 HDR. The range within which the monitor refresh rate is matched to the output from the GPU is between 48 and 165Hz when using a display port connector, or 48 to 144Hz when using the HDMI 2.0 connector.
The XG27WQ must according to Hardware.info will be released in May, but a price is still unknown. Asus has already released a largely similar monitor: the VG27WQ. This screen has a slightly lower peak brightness, does not support HDR and lacks the two USB 3.0 connections of the XG27WQ, but is otherwise the same on paper. This monitor currently costs just under four hundred euros.
