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Gigabyte MO27Q28GR
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Gigabyte MO27Q28GR review

This is surely the sweet spot for 1440p OLED gaming.

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Our Verdict

If you subscribe to the notion of 27-inch, 1440p gaming and you want the latest OLED panel tech at a vaguely sensible price, this new Gigiabyte panel pretty much nails it.

For

  • LG's upgrade WOLED technology
  • Brighter and punchier than before
  • Good all-round feature set

Against

  • Relatively low res
  • Full-screen brightness very slightly lacking
  • Not quite mainstream pricing

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Okay, so you're in the market for an OLED monitor. You want the latest panel tech, but you're trying to keep the spending just on the sensible side of silly. If that's a scenario you can identify with, may I introduce the new Gigabyte MO27Q28GR.

It's a 27-inch 1440p model, which remains a very popular form factor for what you might call real-world gaming. What with GPU prices stubbornly refusing to normalise, never mind the memory market madness, 1440p is a manageable resolution for relatively modest graphics cards to drive, is the point.

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Gigabyte MO27Q28GR specs

Screen size

27-inch

Resolution

2,560 x 1,440

Brightness

335 nits full-screen, 1,500 nits HDR 1.5% APL

Response time

0.03 ms

Refresh rate

280 Hz

HDR

DisplayHDR TrueBlack 500

Features

LG WOLED panel, adaptive sync, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4, USB-C with 18 W (45 W dynamic) PD, USB-A hub

Price

$599 | £549 (matte model)

Buy if...

You want the latest OLED tech: The Gigabyte MO27Q28GR sports LG's latest WOLED panle tech, so it's brighter and punchier than previous generations.

Don't buy if...

You want a crispy, high-DPI experience: This is a 1440p panel, which is a good compromise for gaming but doesn't make for sharp fonts and lots of desktop space.

If that sounds like a real mouthful, it is. But suffice to say for now that it brings very nearly all of LG's latest OLED tech to the table, with the notable exception, despite the confusing "RGB" branding, of RGB-stripe subpixel structure.

We'll come back to all that in a moment, but in the meantime—and especially if you're confused—I précised the baffling branding applied to OLED tech by LG and Samsung here. Just be warned, it's a bit of a mess. The branding, that is, not my post. Obviously.

Anywho, specs-wise, we're talking 335 nits full-screen brightness and HDR True Black 500 certification, both of which betray the new-gen panel tech, as does the 1,500 nits peak HDR brightness in a fairly teensy 1.5% window.

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If all this sounds rather abstract, what it translates into when you're gaming is a seriously punchy HDR experience in some circumstances. Inevitably, that's most notably the case in darker scenes with some small, bright highlights, where the details absolutely zing. And, of course, as with all OLED panels, there's perfect per-pixel lighting where off actually means off and thus there's zero light bleed, no halos around brighter objects, no backlight zones clumsily pinging on and off. You get the idea.

In brighter scenes, even this improved LG OLED panel very slightly underwhelms.

Of course, in brighter scenes, even this improved LG OLED panel very slightly underwhelms. It just lacks a little pop as the brightness is attenuated more and more as a greater proportion of the screen is fired up. Again, that's something that the latest QD-OLED panels cope with just a little bit better.

That's true even with a feature Gigabyte calls HyperNits. It's essentially the same as MSI's EOTF Boost mode, as included with the MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 panel I mentioned previously, and what it aims to do is maintain broader scene brightness in the HDR 1500 mode. Typically, the maximum peak HDR brightness modes on OLED panels allow for really high peaks but tend to crush overall scene brightness; HyperNits addresses that by boosting the EOTF curve.

HyperNits works in the sense that it allows you to have a single HDR mode that maximises both peak HDR brightness and overall scene full-screen brightness. What it can't do is improve the panel's actual full-screen capabilities. And, indeed, in really bright gaming scenes, pretty much any mini-LED LCD monitor would blow all OLED panels away for outright full-screen punch, albeit they come with an extensive litany of shortcomings specific to that panel tech.

The Verdict
Gigabyte MO27Q28GR

If you subscribe to the notion of 27-inch, 1440p gaming and you want the latest OLED panel tech at a vaguely sensible price, this new Gigiabyte panel pretty much nails it.

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