OLED gaming~$800Gigabyte
Gigabyte's 27-inch QD-OLED does the same thing its LCD monitors do: fits a KVM to a panel whose direct rivals ship without one. At 360 Hz and around $800 it sits directly against Alienware's AW2725DF and Samsung's G60SD, and the KVM is the thing that breaks the tie for anyone running two machines.
Approx. price
~$800
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 47.8 Gbps at 2560×1440, 360 Hz and 30 bits per pixel, and supports DSC compression.
Best for: A fast OLED for a desk that switches between two machines
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.
Cheapest route into a 360 Hz QD-OLED is the pitch, and in Europe it was frequently the only one you could actually buy while the Samsung and MSI equivalents sat out of stock. Owners who got one and had no trouble are genuinely happy: one upgrading from a 28-inch 4K panel reports the resolution drop is visible but the colour and contrast make the trade worth it, and the stand and out-of-box experience draw unprompted compliments.
The firmware is where this monitor loses people. Picture settings failing to survive a power cycle is the standout report, documented repeatedly by an owner who had tuned the screen carefully, was unaffected by a firmware update, and got no answer from support for a week before asking publicly whether he should return it. A second owner, running this beside the MSI panel on the same glass, measured the gamma presets and found them badly mislabelled — the 2.2 setting behaving like 1.8 — which explains the washed, greyish look several people describe rather than leaving it as a matter of taste. Compression cannot be disabled at any setting, which matters specifically to people who wanted to render above 1440p and scale down for cleaner edges, and the maker would not say whether that will change.
Smaller things add up: brightness dropping when you alt-tab, an oversaturated yellow-leaning default picture, a firmware update process people cannot find their way through, and HDR that clips after calibration. Good buy for someone who wants OLED contrast and a very high refresh rate for the least money and is content with one picture preset. Bad buy for anyone who switches between tuned profiles, cares about measured accuracy, or wants a manufacturer who answers the ticket.
This is the best-documented complaint about the monitor. One owner tuned colour temperature and brightness carefully, found the menu still showing his values while the picture had reverted, and got nowhere with a firmware update, a factory reset or a support ticket. There is no owner-discovered fix. If you rely on a tuned profile, treat this as the deciding issue and test it inside the return window.
No, and an owner tried every combination — both cable types, refresh rates from the top down to 60 Hz, and bit depths from 12 down to 8 — with compression active throughout. The maker's support would not say whether an option is coming. The practical consequence he raised is that it blocks rendering above the panel's native resolution and scaling down, which some people use as a cheap route to cleaner edges in games.
Because the gamma presets are mislabelled rather than because the panel is worse. An owner with this monitor and the MSI equivalent on the same desk tested both against gamma reference patterns and found the 2.2 setting tracking closer to 1.8, while the MSI held 2.2 correctly. Selecting the 2.6 preset lands you nearer a true 2.2, which is the closest thing to a workaround anyone has found.
An owner moving up from an older monitor in the same family hit this straight away: leaving a full-screen game lowers the brightness slightly, and opening the menu and touching the brightness control restores it. It reads as the panel-protection logic misreading the switch rather than as a fault. There is no setting owners have found that prevents it, so it is worth knowing about if you play windowed or switch apps constantly.
Owners get stuck here. The maker's page points at a desktop control application, which then shows nothing to update, and the burn-in care utilities are not where people expect to find them. The firmware itself is distributed as a file to apply from the monitor rather than through the app, so look for the update file on the support page for this exact model and follow its instructions rather than relying on the control software to offer it.
31.5″ · 3840×2160 · 240 Hz · QD-OLED
Best for: A 4K OLED driven uncompressed by a DisplayPort 2.1 graphics card
27″ · 2560×1440 · 240 Hz · Fast IPS
Best for: High-refresh 1440p and a KVM on the smallest budget that buys both
26.5″ · 2560×1440 · 500 Hz · QD-OLED
Best for: Competitive shooters where motion clarity matters more than resolution