ASUS's showcase at CES 2025 included several new products and one of them was a world's first 27-inch 4K gaming monitor that detects when users walk away.

K OLED 240Hz monitors seem to be like buses: you wait ages for one and then three turn up at once. Asus, Samsung, and MSI are all announcing the industry’s next-generation QD-OLED gaming monitors that offer the benefits of 4K OLED 240Hz panels at the smaller 27-inch size instead of 32 inches.

Announced at CES 2025, the Swift OLED PG27UCDM is the first of its kind. Up until this time, you either picked a high resolution and lower refresh rate, or a buttery smooth framerate with a lower resolution. Now, we don’t have to make that choice anymore, and after witnessing this for myself, I’m so glad that this decision is no more.

Asus’s ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM is the world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor. Now as is often the case, this is a bit of a trick as multiple vendors released a 27-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor at CES 2025, so while it is first, it’s not alone anymore.

Asus, Samsung, and MSI have announced their claims for producing the world's first 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors, all using Samsung's 4th-generation QD-OLED panels.

Both curved and flat monitors have their place. Some prefer the look of the flat monitor, while curved monitors offer a little more immersion for a variety of experiences. What if you could have one monitor that was both curved and flat?

Among the biggest OLED gaming monitors we’ve ever seen, the enormous 49-inch Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 ultrawide is currently a jaw-dropping 42 percent off. That means this $1,700 monitor can be had for just $1,