Upcoming Msi Mpg 271qr X50 Qd-oled Gaming Monitor Review

Samsung's new 4th gen QD-OLED tech is slightly brighter and, in this implementation, fiendishly fast. But this is a whole hill of money for a 27-inch 1440p monitor.

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300 nits and 500 Hz. Pay close attention to those two numbers, because they give the new MSI MPG 271QR X50's game away. Yup, this 27-inch, 1440p gaming monitor packs the very latest 4th gen Samsung QD-OLED panel technology.

A new generation of OLED panel is always exciting, but how much of an upgrade is it over the best currently available OLED monitors? Does it fix OLED's full-screen brightness limitations? What about QD-OLED's specific problems with ambient light and font rendering? What does a 500 Hz OLED actually look like set to full reheat? Hold those thoughts while we cover off this new display's various speeds and feeds.

Along with the lofty 500 Hz refresh and 2,560 by 1,440 native resolution, you get OLED's characteristic uber-low response times, which come in at a claimed 0.03 ms. No question, this thing is built for speed.

It's also engineered to be brighter than previous displays that rely on Samsung's QD-OLED technology. Right at the beginning of the year at the CES show, Samsung unveiled the next step in its QD-OLED roadmap. It's taken a little while for that to show up in PC monitors as opposed to TVs, but it's finally landed at PCG towers.

Screen size: 27-inchResolution: 2,560 x 1,440Brightness: 300 nits full-screen, 1,000 nits HDR 3% APLResponse time: 0.03 msRefresh rate: 500 HzHDR: DisplayHDR TrueBlack 500 Features: QD-OLED panel, adaptive sync, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.1a, USB-C with 98 W PD, 2x USB-APrice: $899 | £899

Now that it's here, peak performance is some distance off the 400-plus nits full-screen brightness Samsung was talking about back at CES and has since been implemented for TVs. Instead, MSI is claiming a mere 300 nits for the MPG 271QR X50.

You could argue that's both a little disappointing and a bit behind LG's latest tandem WOLED technology, which is rated as high as 335 nits in various new 27-inch 1440p monitor models that use that new tandem OLED panel, including the LG UltraGear 27GX700A. However, it's still a step up on previous gaming monitors using Samsung's QD-OLED technology and it's notable that both this monitor and that LG get the same DisplayH

Source: PC Gamer