Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27 AQP: Ultimate 480Hz Gaming Monitor

The new Asus OLED monitor offers unmatched 1440p clarity and a blazing 480 Hz refresh rate for ultimate gaming performance.

### The Ultimate Gaming Experience: Unleashing the Power of a 480Hz OLED Monitor
* 🎮 Months ago, I expressed my admiration for 360Hz OLED gaming monitors, but now Asus has sponsored a video featuring an even more impressive **480Hz OLED monitor**, the Rog Swift OLED PG27 AQP.
* 🖥 This 27-inch display boasts a **1440p resolution**, providing an **exceptional gaming experience** without any compromises in image quality, unlike previous high refresh rate monitors.
* 🔍 The monitor utilizes a **W OLED panel from LG**, which enhances viewing angles by **20%** and reduces color fringing, while also featuring a **custom heat sink** to mitigate burn-in risks.
* 💻 However, achieving the full **480Hz at 1440p** requires Display Stream Compression (DSC), as the current standards for **DisplayPort and HDMI cables** fall short of the necessary **bandwidth**.
* ⚡ Despite the potential concerns about compression, the gaming experience is described as "**almost perfect**," with responsive gameplay and minimal latency when paired with a high-end GPU like the Nvidia 4090.
* 🎯 While not every game may benefit from such a high refresh rate, the monitor enhances the connection to the gaming experience, making FPS games feel **tighter and more immersive**.
* 💡 Ultimately, the transition to this advanced monitor may necessitate a new PC setup, but the **performance gains could be worth the investment** for serious gamers.
* 🔗 Thanks to Asus for sponsoring the video, and for those interested, the monitor will be **linked below for further exploration**.

months ago, I told you guys that I was in love with the new 360 HZ OLED gaming monitors. I swear, guys, I cannot click heads like that, and yet there it is. But as you can see, I never pulled the trigger. Well, Asus found out and sponsored this video with something even better: an OLED monitor with a 480 HZ refresh rate. Like the other 480 HZ monitor that we looked at a few months ago, this thing should have absolutely wild image clarity thanks to its near-instant pixel response times. But unlike that display, we're not limited to 1080p if we want to go fast. That's right, guys, the Rog Swift OLED pg27 aqp is a true endgame Esports display: 27 in 1440p and zero compromises if I want to pop some heads. But first, we got to get this old monitor out of here. Look, Speed Ke, oh my God. I thought you were going to be Tails. They didn't have any Tails costumes, so I instead the greatest.

scientific genius in the world. All right, well, it's too late to fix this now. It's de and jam time. Let's do it to it. Well, when you say it that way, it's showtime. I got to go [Music]. Fast, are you ready to get rid of this old monitor? To be clear, this is a really nice display. Yeah, 1440p Ultra wide, 240 HZ, but nothing has ever made me feel like a gaming God the way those 360 HZ displays did. And I want to try it at home, so yep, sorry Flex, it's time for you to wait. Do do the trick one more time. Do the trick one more time before you put it away. You got to flatten it for the Box. Oh yeah, it feels so so wrong every time. And then even going back, yeah, I know where you putting it. I don't even know where you're taking it. I don't know. I back to the office, I guess. To be clear, everything we're seeing here is something we've seen before. 500 HZ

monitors exist. OLED monitors exist. And 1440p monitors exist. We've just never seen all of those things in the same place. So, unlike the previous high refresh rate king, we're not compromising on image quality with inky blacks and support for HDR. And unlike the last 480 Hz OLED we looked at, this one isn't limited to about 70 pixels per inch when we're running in high refresh rate mode. Instead, it's closer to 110, which will be a noticeable difference in image sharpness. It uses a W OLED panel from LG with micro lens array plus technology, which they claim offers 20% wider viewing angles than before and clearer text with less color fringing thanks to clear pixel edge. And they've got a custom heat sink to help reduce the risk of burning, and it comes with a three-year warranty. They didn't mention this, but I will, because it's not using a CU OLED. You also don't get that purple hue that he has to put up with. It's fine; you never see it when the lights.

are off. It doesn't matter. He's actually not wrong. I'm just. I love teasing. Now as I go through and swap out my magnetic Cable Management LTT store.com. There is a small elephant in the room. Without DSC or display stream compression. 1440p 480 HZ is about 70 GB per second. Meanwhile, the cables in my wall are display port 1.4, which is limited to 32 GB per second. That's not exactly close. So what do we do about that? An obvious answer might be to use HDMI 2.1, except for two small problems. That's also not enough bandwidth, only 48 GB per second. And I don't have any HDMI 2.1 cables embedded in my walls. I could look into swapping out the display port cables in my walls. DP 2.1 uh2 would support this refresh rate and resolution natively, except that there are no gaming gpus on the market today that support the standard. And even some upcoming ones are rumored to fall short. That means that regardless of

how we feel about compression. We are stuck with DSC. For those of you who are familiar, this will be a review, but for everyone else, DSC is a Vasa-made video compression algorithm that is supposedly visually lossless, that compresses each frame to save on bandwidth. But what visually lossless means is that when they conducted trials, observers couldn't tell the difference between the full-fat reference image and the compressed one more than 75% of the time. I worry that I might be in that 25%, especially for some of the higher compression ratios. If you ever want to learn more about which interfaces support which resolutions and refresh rates, by the way, Glenwing on the LTT Forum posted a great calculator years ago that you can use as a reference. All right, let's see how this goes. Man, that looks good. Another factor we haven't talked about yet, plof, is that when you're at the very edges of the maximum distances supported by these standards, even if it should

theoretically work it might not. I have fiber to the wall plate, and then I have wall plate to the Monitor, and it's been borderline sometimes. Oh yeah, I might have to go get one of those little brush pass-through wall plates and use that instead. Okay, I just don't like them 'cause they're ugly. It's only running at 60 HZ right now, so that's not encouraging. It's just as the stone tablets predicted. Also, uh, sometimes this does look a bit bad, like, but yeah, that banding is awful. Uh-oh, this is trouble. 60 HZ. I mean, it's going to try to do 480. It's available in the drop-down. Keep changes. It's doing it. Oh, she's definitely doing it. The banding though. Does it change the DSC mode? Like, can you control that DC support? Yep, there's a toggle, so we can see if that banding is caused by DSC or not. The answer is it did not. Can you still go to 480? What's it capping out at now? Oh no.

way 'cause you disabled the SC right 240. Yeah, okay, okay. So it's probably a pretty high compression ratio considering this is display port and we're getting what, 32 gigs, gigabit per second. Yeah, HDMI 2.1 really might be worth it 'cause it goes up to 48 gbit per second. I do technically have an HDMI 2.1 cable that we could fish through the wall. Let's see if you can even play any games, okay, at 480 frames per second. All right, let's try a game. Dude, it is amazing how responsive a system feels when you've got this kind of refresh rate, this kind of latency. It's freaking crazy. Look, I'm not taking responsibility for that. I had a shotgun, yeah, get them while he turned around. Nice. I'm sure it could be a little bit on the brighter side, but when we're looking at the latency numbers, guys, this is, I hesitate to use the p word, but good lord, it's almost perfect. Oh, that was close. Me? No, that wasn't that close. [Music]

damn it, damn it. I hit him four times. Bloody hell. Oh my God, where'd that even come from? Behind you. Oh, this is why it takes so long for us to film videos. That was fun, but it's time to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth of buying a monitor like this. You're probably going to need a new PC as well. Now, back when I saw the pricing of Nvidia's 40 series, I vowed to not upgrade to them, to send a message that I felt that this generation was a skip. But I never vowed to not use them in our videos. So, let's throw a 4090 rig at this thing and see what the gaming experience is like. This will also be an opportunity to try out HDMI 2.1 and see if that makes a visual difference. Although based on what I've seen so far, I'm kind of doubting it. I mean, this is a completely different wallpaper, so we're obviously not able to look for, you know, bending the same way we were before. But what we can do is fire up Counter-Strike here. We

go. Let's see what a 4090 and a 7800 X3D can do. Good Lord, is that smooth ultimate power. Now you're speaking my language, dude. I have no excuses. The motion clarity is so good. Look at this. I know that's wild. This is crazy. Yeah, yeah, let's go, buddy. Oh man, she's so smooth. Smooth, buddy. Yeah, it's just instant. Yeah, like you 180 and it's just clear instantly. Dude, it's like looking through a window. Yeah, I know we've said that so many times before, but this time, no, there's levels. There's levels of perfection, you know. Oh, you know what? No, let's give him a sporting chance. That's he's had enough time. Yeah, he's had enough time. Nice. Okay, let's go. Equipment won't make you a better gamer, but it sure as hell doesn't hurt. That's let's go shoot. Shoot enough of this though. Let's try a game where I might actually be able to

do some damage. Let's play some Halo Infinite. I have not played like at all lately. An error occurred while searching for players. Please try again. The error is that nobody plays Halo Infinite. I was just going to say they're out of players. Whatever. I like the game. This looks freaking awesome. I don't even have HDR on, and this looks awesome. Look at my skins. Get out of my way, buddy. Can't miss heads, brother. Dude, I love this monitor, and I think I'll just game on this now, seriously. Okay, well, it can't do anything about your game sucking, but it has support for all the various syncs, G-Sync, FreeSync Premium. I'm not sure how much of a difference those are going to make at these kinds of frame rates, assuming that you got a suitably equipped PC that accompanies it. I do kind of want to try one more round here running it like medium details instead of max. That was only at about 250 FPS, and man, feels good. It's not that much better for

animation smoothness or latency, even compared to 240 HZ or even 120. It's just, it's like the connection to the machine. It just feels tighter. Everything about it. You're not going to benefit from it in every game. Uh, Sonic Frontiers, for example, of all things, does not support higher than 60 FPS. Is this supposed to be a good game? Yeah, I did okay. Flipping back over to my computer, I really don't know if I'm going to be able to make the same commitment for 50 Series, even if it's expensive. I might go for it, but that doesn't mean every game is going to benefit from a high refresh rate monitor and a really nice GPU. Uh, this is actually probably the game I've put the most hours into over the last couple of years, and it really doesn't need more than about 40-50 FPS. And I kind of missed the bigger Ultra wide display, but hey, it's always going to be horses for courses. And lately, I've been playing more FPS games.

and I think I want to switch to this for a while. Thanks, Asus, for sponsoring this video. If you want to check out this monitor, we're going to have it linked down below. And if you guys enjoyed this video, maybe go check out our first reaction to high refresh rate OLED gaming. It really is that good then, and it's that good now. Oh, I can't stop.

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Asus has launched a 480 Hz OLED gaming monitor, the Rog Swift OLED pg27 aqp, offering 27 inches of 1440p resolution for a true endgame Esports display.

The monitor features near-instant pixel response times, inky blacks, and HDR support, providing wild image clarity and sharpness.

With a W OLED panel and micro lens array technology, it offers wider viewing angles and clearer text, while also featuring a custom heat sink for burn risk reduction and a three-year warranty.

Overcoming Bandwidth Limitations for 1440p 480Hz

The author's wall cables are limited to 32 GB per second, while 1440p 480Hz requires 70 GB per second, making them incompatible.

1 offers only 48 GB per second, and there are no gaming GPUs supporting DP 2.

DSC, a video compression algorithm, is being used to save bandwidth, but its visually lossless nature raises concerns for some users.

Testing a High-Refresh-Rate Gaming Monitor

The system is using DisplayPort for a high compression ratio, achieving 32 Gbps, while HDMI 2.

The responsive gameplay at 480 frames per second provides an almost perfect latency experience.

Upgrading to a monitor like this may require a new PC, and the presenter plans to test it with an Nvidia 4090 rig and HDMI 2.

The combination of a 4090 and 7800 X3D delivers smooth and instant motion clarity, making gaming feel effortless.

The speaker enjoys the impressive performance, comparing it to looking through a window.

Despite the equipment's power, they humorously note that it won't necessarily make them a better gamer.

High refresh rate monitors provide a tighter connection to the machine, enhancing animation smoothness and reducing latency.

Not all games benefit from higher FPS, with some, like Sonic Frontiers, capped at 60 FPS.

The speaker is considering switching to a new monitor for FPS games and appreciates the sponsor's support.