New monitor XG27UQ or PG27AQ or something else?

betaz · February 22, 2020

I'm looking into getting a new 27in 4k monitor as main and using my 24in 1920x1200 as a secondary one.

Based on paper specs, the XG27UQ should be the winner with 144Hz, 125% sRGB, G-sync compatible, 1ms GTG.

It's new but I haven't seen too many reviews on this. And I'm not sure how this panel has 16.7m colors will differ from the 1.07b colors on the PG27AQ.

The PG27AW is the other one I'm considering. As it's from 2015, there no hdr, no high refresh rate, but it has 1.07b colors. It is also half the price of the newer model.

This will be used for everything from photo editing, work (some coding, monitoring, documentation, research, etc), gaming (single player), and netflix/youtube. I don't expect to be running any games at 4k, ultra settings with the gtx1070ti. But monitors do last for quite some time from my experience and will be using this for many years so eventually I would do that with a gpu upgrade.

Anyone have experience with the XG27UQ yet? Any thoughts or suggestion on this? The biggest push at the moment is lots of working from home and I need the higher resolution upgrade. HDR and g-sync are things I've not tried but feel like these would be a more obvious upgrade. Need to keep this at 27in max as I don't have space for something bigger, and 2k isn't enough of an upgrade for me as the increase in viewing for work isn't enough.

xhackforeverxdx · February 22, 2020

The 1.07 b colors just means that it supports 10bit colors and for what u are doing its kinda useless ^^ 4k 144hz is great i owen the x27p text is very very sharp on 27 4k but if u wanne game on it u need a very strong gpu 2080super or ti atleast and HDR on the xb27uq is awful cause it does not have any blacklight dimming so u should not be hyped about hdr gaming on this one but even without hdr its a decent panel

betaz · February 22, 2020

Good to know that the 1.07b colors isn't useless for my use case. On paper it seemed a bit strange that the newer model had a lower number.

Not looking into HDR gaming at this time, mostly more content like netflix if anything and not expecting full true hdr experience but hoping for a noticeable upgrade compared to sdr.

Still quite new with the HDR stuff, but I thought back light dimming or full array local dimming is only at the higher levels like HDR1000 where it becomes important? Seem to require the highest end monitors where if the number of zone isn't high enough there is bad halo effect? The cost seem to be at 2k+ on a monitor as well from what I've seen which would be out of my budget.