Asus
Asus MG278Q
Matte 2560x1440 144hz TN panel with 30-144hz AMD Free-Sync.
Asus MG279Q
Matte 2560x1440 144hz AHVA panel with 30-144hz AMD Free-Sync.
The Asus MG279Q uses a 27" 2560x1440 resolution 8 Bit AUO AHVA panel, a nearly grain free matte coating, has excellent colour presets when the Racing mode is selected, a high quality matte grey bezel which vastly increases the perceived black depth, fast pixel response times and a 144hz refresh rate. Free-Sync (AMD GPU required) works from 30-90fps, eliminates tearing and lag, but the has >10ms delay when not set to 144hz.
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of cards which support Free-Sync.
Asus PG278Q
Matte 2560x1440 144hz TN panel with 30-144hz Nvidia G-Sync.
Asus PG279Q
Matte 2560x1440 144hz AHVA panel with 30-144hz Nvidia G-Sync.
The Asus PG279Q uses a 27" 2560x1440 resolution 8 Bit AUO AHVA panel, a nearly grain free matte coating, has good colour presets aside from a preset green tint, a matte black bezel and an inner black bezel which decreases the perceived black depth, fast pixel response times and a 144hz refresh rate. G-Sync (Nvivida GPU required) works from 30-165hz (144hz is the default maximum refresh rate but it can be overclocked to 165hz), eliminates tearing and lag, but Lightboost is limited to 120z. It also has an HDMI input which allows it to work with external devices like consoles.
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Curved matte 2560x1440 144hz TN panel with 30-144hz Nvidia G-Sync.
Asus PG279QZ
Review by RtingsThe Asus PG279QZ is an updated version of the PG279Q (2015), released in 2019, and with zero improvements. The PG279QZ is fully adjustable, has Displayport (30-165hz Nvidia G-Sync), HDMI, G-Sync (Nvidia GPU required), ULMB (120hz back-light strobing), 2x USB 3.0 and the same fake-thin matte grey casing with an inner black bezel which decreases the perceived black depth. The PG279QZ Rtings tested has excellent all-around performance, however, without more reviews available, it's impossible to know if it is consistently accurate unlike the PG279Q.
Asus VG27AQ
Review by AshunReview by =DEAD=Review by Global HD RussiaReview by Les Numeriques Review by PlaywaresReview by TECHSPOTReview by TFT CentralThe VG27AQ is a fully adjust-able, matte, 144hz (over-clocks to 165hz over Displayport), 2560x1440
AUO AHVA panel with AMD Free-Sync (48-165hz range), back-light strobing (
ELMB) Displayport (over-clock-able to 165hz), 2x HDMI 2.0 and 3.5mm Audio Out. The VG27AQ has very accurate preset color accuracy (
Racing Mode), and has
very low or negligible input lag. The VG27AQ
needs to have the overdrive (Trace Free) reduced from 60 to 0 to get rid of excessive overshoot ghosting at 60hz and has slow pixel response times at 60hz, but performs well at 144, 155 and 165hz when the over drive (Trace Free) setting is kept to the default 60 setting.
TFT Central provides Trace Free 80 measurements which prove that the VG27AQ suffers from over 20ms of overshoot ghosting during many transitions which I find unacceptable which is why I recommend using Trace Free 60.
Asus XG32VQR
Review by PROHARDVERMatte, fully adjust-able 31.5 inch, 144hz, 2560x1440 resolution Samsung SVA panel with AMD Free-Sync (48-144hz range), Displayport, 2x HDMI 2.0, 2x USB 3.0 and 3.5mm Audio Out. The XG32VQR is preset to the Racing mode which is washed out
due to the low (1.9 average) preset gamma, but can be improved by switching it to the sRGB mode which is very accurate.
Asus PG279QE
Review by =DEAD=Fully adjustable, matte, 2560x1440, 165hz AUO AHVA panel with 30-165hz Nvidia G-Sync, Displayporty, HDMI 1.4 (no G-Sync nation), ULMB (120hz back-light strobing) and 2x USB 3.0. The Asus PG279QE is an updated version of the PG279Q (2015), released in 2019, and an alternative to the PG279QZ which is also an updated version of the PG279Q with zero improvements and slightly different casing and stand material. The PG279QE is very accurate, delay free and has excellent overdrive with minimal to no overshoot.
ASUS ROG Strix XG279Q
Review by PRAD Fully adjust-able, matte, semi-wide gamut, 170hz, 2560x1440 IPS (probably AHVA) panel with AMD Free-Sync, ELMB (back-light strobing), Displayport, 2x HDMI 2.0, 2x USB 3.0 and 3.5mm Audio Out. The XG279Q
has 1100:1 contrast, and is quite accurate DCI-P3 color space coverage (91%; it over-saturates SDR color by over 25% and does not have a good sRGB mode) and colors aside from
a minor blue tint (6900k measured color temperature) and slightly too low and
downward-sloping gamma which averages around 2.09. The XG279Q
has negligible input lag,
great 60hz and
144-170hz overdrive with fast pixel response times and minimal overshoot when the Overdrive 3 setting is used.