Asus just revealed two new tandem OLED monitors at an event adjacent to Gamescom 2025, including a flagship model that’s able to hit a blistering 720Hz (!) – at a reduced resolution of 720p – or a still-scintillating 540Hz at its normal resolution of 1440p. A 1000Hz OLED has long been the goal for display enthusiasts, and by that metric we’re now the majority of the way there.
The tandem W-OLED screens used on both the flagship PG27AQWP-W and lesser XG27AQWMG are also remarkable, with the new panels promising 15 percent higher brightness – a longtime OLED weak point – plus a 25 percent wider range of colours and even a 60 percent longer lifespan than earlier W-OLED panels, thanks to lower power requirements.
I went hands-on – or should it be “eyes-on”? – with both screens and came away impressed. The colour gamut and brightness improvements are hard to distinguish in the glaring lights of an event space – that’s why we do reviews with a colourimeter after the fact! – but the motion clarity that refresh rates this high on an OLED monitor can provide is immmediately obvious in fast-paced games like Counter-Strike 2, where you’re often trying to track (and aim at) fast-moving targets.
It’s a bit hard to describe exactly how this looks in person, but the main thing is that the trails that often accompany fast-moving objects – artefacts that are called overshoot and undershoot – are basically nonexistent at this kind of speed. Everything looks smooth, with many more intermediate steps in a given chunk of time. There are even faster 750Hz TN panel monitors, to be fair, but these LCD-based panels don’t have anywhere near the raw pixel response times of an OLED – let alone the colour reproduction, contrast or viewing angles.