Asus announces 27″ monitor with VA panel and 165Hz refresh rate

Asus has announced a new gaming monitor: the ROG Strix XG27WQ. It concerns 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 a peak brightness of 450cd/m² and is provided with the DisplayHDR 400 label, which means that the screen meets the lowest set of requirements for an HDR monitor according to the VESA standard.

The display 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. There is also support for FreeSync Premium Pro, the former FreeSync 2 HDR. The range within which the monitor’s refresh rate is adapted to the output of the GPU is between 48 and 165Hz if a displayport connection is used, or 48 to 144Hz when using the HDMI 2.0 connection.

According to Hardware.info, the XG27WQ should be released in May, but a price is still unknown. Asus has already released a largely comparable 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.