Asus ROG Swift OLED PG34WCDM
Our first taste of LG’s latest OLED
At $1,299, this new Asus is an awful lot of money for a glorified 1440p panel.
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WELCOME TO THE second generation of OLED gaming monitors. Or should that be the third, as Asus is claiming? It depends on how you measure, but this new Asus monitor definitely moves the game on, courtesy of the latest LG OLED panel tech.
The key question is whether LG can close the gap to Samsung’s QD-OLED tech for both outright full-screen brightness and brightness consistency. As for the PG34WCDM itself, it’s a 34-inch curved ultrawide model with 3,440 by 1,440 pixels, so the basic form factor isn’t novel. That said, at 240Hz, it’s a step up in terms of refresh rate from earlier 34- inch ultrawide OLED monitors.