Asus ROG Swift OLED PG34WCDM

Our first taste of LG's latest OLED

- JEREMY LAIRD

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 QDOLED 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 34inch ultrawide OLED monitors.

Meanwhile, Asus is quoting 0.03ms as a response time, which is standard OLED fare, if still pretty eye-popping compared to any LCD monitor. Color coverage is 99 percent of DCI-P3, which again is both excellent and about what you’d expect from a modern OLED panel.