Asus has its first dual mode OLED monitor, and it's easily the best version of this display that we've seen so far.
Asus ROG Swift PG32UCDP MSRP $1,300.00 Score Details “The ROG Swift PG32UCDP goes far beyond its marquee feature.” Pros Cons We see a bunch of monitors year after year packing the same panel, but when Asus puts out a new display, I pay attention. It’s been behind a ton of the best gaming monitors money can buy over the past several years, and its latest addition, the PG32UCDP, has the chops to sit alongside them.
Even without the goodies like the 1/4-inch mount and lighting, I love the look of the PG32UCDP when it’s all set up. Because of the lifted feet of the stand, the monitor covers most, if not all, of the portion that actually connects to the monitor. You don’t see a vertical column above or below your display.
They all work to varying degrees — I found AI Crosshair the most consistent — but the AI features aren’t a big selling point here. I mainly used AI Visual, which was decent at adjusting the picture between my desktop and games. It would go a little far when pulling up any videos with vibrant colors, flushing the screen out with an oversaturated look, but I suspect that’s something Asus can continue to refine over time.
I have an issue with Asus’ naming conventions, though. There are just some strange decisions. For instance, the default picture mode is the Racing mode, and for no clear reason. And the brightest HDR mode is Console HDR, as opposed to Cinema HDR or Gaming HDR. In addition, the dual refresh rate feature is called FPS Boost, which makes sense, but it’s still a bit of an opaque name.
After calibrating the display, I was able to get below a color error of 1, which is good. You can certainly use this monitor for color work, be it for photos or video, but I’d strongly recommend calibrating it ahead of time. The color accuracy isn’t bad by any means, but there are much better options if that’s your primary concern.
The big deal here is the dual refresh rate feature, however. You can use the monitor at 4K and 240Hz, or cut the resolution down to 1080p at 480Hz. Going from 4K down to 1080p — you’re losing a ton of pixels. However, the loss isn’t as severe in practice as it may seem on paper. When going to 1080p, each block of four pixels essentially turn into one bigger pixel, so the 1080p mode looks shockingly sharp. It’s a step down from from 4K, for sure, but not as big of a step as I expected.
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