OLED gaming~$599ASUS
Same 26.5-inch 1440p size and 240 Hz refresh as the PG27AQDM, but a newer panel generation behind it: ASUS claims 1,300 nits peak against the older model's 1,000, and three years of burn-in cover against two. The saving comes off the coating — plain glossy instead of micro-texture matte — and off HDMI, which stays at 2.0. At $599 it is the cheapest 240 Hz OLED in this catalog.
Approx. price
~$599
snapshot, not a live price
Real HDR
per-pixel emissive — every pixel is its own backlight, so a highlight can sit beside true black
Port speed — can each input carry this panel?
This panel needs 31.9 Gbps at 2560×1440, 240 Hz and 30 bits per pixel, and supports DSC compression.
Best for: OLED motion at the lowest price ASUS sells it for
The two lists above come from the maker’s specifications and from published third-party measurements, not from owner reports. Where owner discussion has been read it appears in its own section below, so the two are never mistaken for each other.
Glossy is the entire pitch here, and owners split hard on whether that was the right call. The buyers who chose it deliberately, especially people trading up from the matte-finished version of the same LG panel, write the most enthusiastic posts on the whole 27-inch OLED shelf: blacks that look genuinely black, colour that pops, and text that stopped looking fuzzy. The buyers who underestimated the coating write the opposite post, and the phrase that keeps recurring is that they could change clothes in front of it.
Day-to-day complaints cluster in two places. The first is low-frame-rate behaviour: run a game at 60 fps with variable refresh engaged and owners describe visibly wrong gamma and coarse steps in dark gradients, a trait they trace to the panel type rather than this specific model, though it was enough to send at least one monitor back. The second is the housekeeping OLEDs do on their own — brightness stepping down under panel protection, the signal dropping out when a game starts or HDR toggles, and a firmware page with two similarly-named update files that owners cannot tell apart. Reported picture faults exist but read as individual units rather than a pattern: streaks, a grey patch at one edge, compression-like blocking.
It lands best with someone who games in a room where they control the light and who wants the contrast of an OLED without paying the QD-OLED premium — the burn-in-covered warranty is cited as often as the price. Anyone shopping for a screen that sits under a window, or one that will show spreadsheets eight hours a day, gets pushed toward a matte panel by owners of this one.
This is the thing buyers most often wish they had weighed harder. Owners in rooms they describe as dim still see clear reflections, and several say the coating behaves like a mirror when anything bright sits behind them. The counter-argument from happy owners is that it diffuses ambient light reasonably well and only becomes a problem with a direct light source in view, so the practical test is whether you can put a lamp or window behind the screen instead of in front of it.
Owners are split by expectation rather than by outcome. People who moved here from the matte version of the same panel consistently say text got noticeably sharper; people benchmarking against an IPS monitor still see some fringing on thin fonts. The common advice from owners who kept it for work is to turn ClearType off rather than tune it, and to accept that burn-in risk from static interface elements is the bigger productivity question.
Owners report a clear gamma shift at low refresh rates with variable refresh enabled, with dark gradients breaking into visible steps. It is a characteristic of this panel family rather than a defect, and the workarounds owners land on are capping frame rate high enough to stay out of the worst range or turning variable refresh off for slower titles. One owner returned the monitor specifically over this, so it is worth testing early in a return window.
Three years of burn-in coverage is the figure buyers cite, and it is a repeated reason for choosing this over cheaper panels. Owners who wanted more certainty bought a retailer protection plan alongside it, partly because of a general nervousness about how warranty claims go. Buyers purchasing from a third-party retailer specifically asked whether the coverage still applies, so keeping the original proof of purchase matters.
At least one owner found the on-screen display reporting 180 Hz after switching a shooter to 1080p while every driver and in-game setting still claimed 240 Hz. The fix owners point to is setting the refresh rate for that specific resolution in the graphics driver rather than assuming the monitor's top rate carries over, since non-native modes get their own timing entry.
The panel-protection routine lowers brightness when it thinks content is static, and owners report it triggering even while the picture is still moving. The screen-saver and logo-protection settings in the menu control it, but owners weigh turning them off against the fact that these features exist to slow uneven wear — most keep them on and live with the dip.
26.5″ · 2560×1440 · 480 Hz · WOLED
Best for: Competitive shooters where frame timing is the only spec that counts
26.5″ · 2560×1440 · 240 Hz · WOLED
Best for: OLED contrast in a room with light you cannot control
31.5″ · 3840×2160 · 240 Hz · QD-OLED
Best for: A flagship OLED that is also the dock and the KVM for a work laptop