ASUS ROG Swift 32” 4K OLED Gaming Monitor (PG32UCDM) - UHD (3840 x 2160), QD-OLED, 240Hz, 0.03ms, G-SYNC Compatible, Custom Heatsink, Graphene Film, 99% DCI-P3, True 10-bit, 90W USB-C

I’ve been using the ASUS ROG Swift PG32UCDM for a bit now, and honestly, you really do get what you pay for. This monitor feels premium in every way, from the build quality to the insane feature set. The 4K QD-OLED panel with 240Hz is absolutely stunning, with rich, vibrant colors and super smooth performance. Everything just looks amazing. One thing I really appreciate is the confidence ASUS shows by including a 3-year warranty along with the OLED Care features to help protect and extend the life of the panel. That alone gave me a lot of peace of mind when buying an OLED monitor, and it feels like a solid move by ASUS. Setup was easy, all the accessories were included, and the overall quality is top-notch. Colors are rich, contrast is incredible, and gaming feels on another level. I’m super happy with this purchase and honestly couldn’t have chosen a better monitor. Highly recommended if you want a no-compromise, high-end display.

This review is for the ASUS PG32UCDM, which is a QD-OLED monitor sporting a 240hz refresh rate and 4K resolution to clarify when Amazon lists all the reviews together in the way they do. Gaming performance: At 240hz, provided your graphics card can push pixels that quickly, this monitor is at the top of the game when considering the speed of competitive 4K monitors. There does not currently (2/24/25) exist a 4K panel that can do more than 4K 240hz, if you require more for competitive gaming then you should look elsewhere to a 1440p monitor or the like. I played Halo Infinite at 240hz and the experience was divine. Coming from a 144hz 4K 27" IPS panel, there is no comparison: the picture was unimaginably clear, vivid, crisp, and with dark blacks. Age of Empires IV with HDR mode enabled looks like a different game entirely. I will have to replay every older game I own with this monitor. The colors quite literally give life to old games and show you things in titles you've already played that you may have missed on your older monitor. Other media consumption: I do not own a TV, thus I consume all of my media through my computer and a monitor that could natively display all current types of media formats (HDR, Dolby Vision, etc) was important to me and this monitor excels in media consumption much like an OLED TV does. This monitor supports Dolby Vision which is quite uncommon among computer monitors, competitor's products that I've checked during my research prior to buying (Gigabyte F032U2P as well as the MSI equivalent) fall short in this area, not supporting DV. Switching HDR modes is easily accessible in the monitor settings. HDR support is excellent just the same as DV and is the default mode. Just like with games, true blacks show with OLED panels such as this one because the pixel completely turns off, unlike other panels where local dimming and other technologies try to reproduce black shades but they often come out gray as some light from the backlight shines through. Not the case with this monitor. The dark, eerie, emptiness of space in 1979's Alien really comes through and the vivid colors of Avatar shine bright as if you were really on Pandora. I cannot express enough how important a good monitor is when putting together a gaming or media setup. It is the primary way you interact with your computer. Things to know: OLED is susceptible to burn in, and as in the old days with CRTs (which were also prone to burn in), care must be taken to mitigate the effects. It's the return of the screen saver. The monitor comes with a standard 8 hour pixel refresh cycle which prompts you with the on screen display to run a pixel refresh. It takes about 5 minutes to complete, and you can postpone it if you so wish. It is also recommended to use a dark windows theme, no background, auto-hide taskbar, among other mitigation measures. Text fringing: I thought this would be a problem for me, since I am both easily nauseated by blurry text and use my computer for a lot of text-based work as well (coding and writing these reviews...). Truthfully it is only noticeable if you get very, very close to the screen, much closer than is usable. There are also mitigation measures you can take for this such as using different fontpacks and so on. Overall, this monitor is excellent and I forsee using it for 5+ years. I will edit this review if burn in appears in any significant or severe way or earlier than expected.

For quite some time, I was looking for a reasonably sized 4K (3840x2160) OLED monitor to be used for both gaming and productivity. When ASUS announced the 32” ROG PG32UCDM Gaming Monitor, I immediately signed up to be notified when it became available in stock. Unfortunately, as soon as I got an e-mail notification and went to their site, it was already out of stock again. I decided to visit my favorite online retailer, Amazon.com, to see if they were available. They were, but with a caveat. Initially, and for the longest time, the monitors were only available from third parties. I've had lots of good luck with third-party purchases through Amazon, but apparently the first reviewers of the PG32UCDM did not fare as well. Virtually all low-star reviews were due to DOAs or other quality issues, perhaps caused by early or returned inventory. I decided to hold tight and wait for a monitor sold and shipped by Amazon. That day arrived last week and I'm now typing this review using the brand new, gorgeous OLED monitor. I can confidently state without hyperbole that this is the best monitor I've ever used in my lifetime. The blacks are zero-nit infinite blacks, the highlights are brilliant and crisp, the connectivity and feature set are absolutely top notch, and the heft and build quality are really second to none. Used for both FPS and MMORPG, as well as business applications (e-mail, web-based work, MS Office apps, etc.), I've never used a monitor with text and graphics that were easier to read with zero eyestrain. I was a bit concerned about the gloss finish of the monitor, having a window right behind me, but even with a black screen I can barely see any reflections from light behind me. It's witchcraft, I swear! I could gush on for a while, but I'll wrap up with a pleasant HDR Windows 11 surprise. Anyone who has enabled HDR on a Windows 10/11 PC has immediately noticed all contrast and colors become muted and dull. Firing up an UHD HDR video on YouTube in full screen looked fantastic, but "regular" Windows was bleached out and mostly unusable. Well, ASUS has a solution for that called "DisplayHDR 400 True Black". When enabled for HDR, almost all the contrast lost by enabling HDR in Windows is restored. Plus, you still get that jaw-dropping stunning "infinite depth" from 4k HDR videos. It's truly the best of both worlds. The ASUS PG32UCDM 32” 4K OLED Gaming Monitor gets my highest recommendations! Buy one now!

The monitor, like all the QD-OLED monitors, has a truly awe-inspiring picture, from inky blacks to extremely bright whites, and truly rich colors - so rich I had to turn the saturation down. Unlike its main competitor, Alienware (Dell), it has a built-in KVM switch and the usual passel of gamer-centric features. (Though most of those are only really useful for first person shooter and Battle Royale games). It provides a full set of cables in their own pouch: A Displayport cable, an HDMI cable, and two USB cables. It has built in safety measures to prevent the evergreen OLED problem, burn-in. It also comes with software that can replicate most of its hardware menu items, but easier and quicker. It even has Picture-in-Picture, so those using this behemoth for work can monitor work and home computers simultaneously. It's a gorgeous piece of hardware and unlike some previous reviewers mine came and worked perfectly, so maybe ASUS got their stuff together. But there are downsides. Some are big ones: -- The KVM switch is awkward to use to say the least. You have to press a button, select using the tiny monitor joystick, and then it switches. And it used to be worse - you had to switch keyboard, mouse, and video source *separately.* That's been fixed with firmware, thank goodness. -- HDR (High Dynamic Range) can be very problematic with the monitor, as using it as an HDR monitor removes almost all ability to control the picture. There are far better HDR monitors out there. -- Some overly adolescent features (such as a bottom-facing projector; they even provide a set of lenses for it, including blanks and of course the ROG logo). -- Only one Displayport input. The others are two HDMI ports, a USB-B port, three USB-A ports and a Thunderbolt/USB-C port, either for using the monitor as a hub or for KVM. -- Documentation, including the official manual, is *abysmal.* That's not just an ASUS problem, that's an industry problem. But expect zero help in, for example, setting up the downward projector - it isn't mentioned in the manual at all. Nor are explanations for a lot of the built in menu options. I had to use Reddit to get most of my info. -- Giant power brick. It's 600W and almost as big as my computer's power supply! -- Availability is also abysmal. This is an *extremely* popular monitor and expect the price to keep going up (July 2024), because it is in such hot demand. Shades of the Great Graphics Card Shortage of 2020-2023. In summary: A great monitor that falls short of being the ultimate.

PROS: Stunning Colors and Contrast, Color Calibration, HDR, 240hz, G-Sync/Free Sync, OSD options, QD-OLED CONS: Price, DP 1.4, Clunky OSD, *potential VRR Flickering* Monitor setup was incredibly ez, 2 basic steps and its attached to the stand ready to go. First impressions after turning it on, the screen looks AMAZING! It has great colors, both "sRBG" and "Wide Gamut" image modes seem well calibrated. It has an array of settings you can mess with on the monitor to tune it to your liking. HDR works and looks good, though I haven't used HDR much yet. I have played both a single player game and an FPS on it and their isn't another monitor that even comes CLOSE! The glossy panel finish is definitely worth it if you can control the brightness in your room. All in all, this is definitely a luxury item for those that want to get the most out of a high end gaming PC and experience exceptional display quality! I've used the monitor on both HDMI 2.1 and DP 1.4 and haven't had issues with either. Some people report VRR Flickering in darker scenes but I haven't had any problems as of yet. Navigating the settings on the monitor is a little clunky, I find that I sometimes accidently turn things on, but its not a deal breaker. The price point may be a point of contention for some but this monitor offers virtually all the bells and whistles (Except for DP 2.1) and at a price that matches that. There are cheaper options on the market that still give you amazing quality but at cheaper price and without some of the "premium" features that you may not use anyway. It does have RGB that shines down from the stand that is completely unnecessary and annoying but that can be turned off in the monitor settings. *NOTE: The one I ordered was SOLD and SHIPPED by Amazon not a 3rd Party*

This monitor is very beautiful, thanks to the panel, but I'm not sure ASUS has the best implementation. Almost all the manufacturers seem to have problems, but ASUS version of the QD-OLED 4k240s are at best just okay. The color profiles are wide enough that you can probably find one you like without being forced to make your own custom one if you don't want to. The HDR is very impressive, of course its a bit too bright for productivity/white screens. Swapping to HDR for movie/cinematic game time is fast enough. I have two major complaints so far with the panel. ASUS' software is terrible, to the point where I uninstalled it almost immediately due to providing no benefit. It's possibly the worst monitor software I've seen, and there is no way to quickly update your firmware. I honestly don't understand how these companies have gone from having very simply firmware update tools that almost never failed to having either no update tool and forcing people to use USB2.0 sticks. Most of them fail halfway through the installation and scare you into wondering if it caused other problems. This would be a deal breaker if not for the fact that I've also had firmware updates fail on Dell and Gigabyte recently, so I have no advice here other than don't even bother to use the software or update the firmware. The lighting/RGB on the back is looks nice but a bit too bright and doesn't turn off when your computer sleeps, which forced me to just turn off the RGB from the OSD directly. The second problm is with all recent ASUS monitors have this really ugly chin in the center under the monitor with the OSD controls. The glowing ROG icon just looks trashy, its not customizable, it dims and looks horrible when the monitor is sleeping, and it gets in the way of you being able to adjust your monitor. The bezels on this monitor are already very large. Overall I understand why people want this monitor, the panel itself is very very impressive, if you have a 4090 or 5090 you really should just get one of these versions... but the ASUS one is probably one of the weaker implementations of it. It's a shame that Dell made a really awful curved version, or that would likely be the better choice, but give that Gigabyte and MSI both sell the panel for less and that you cant really expect any of the software or updates to actually work, you might as well spend less and get a better looking version of the same thing. I don't regret my purchase but I'm not impressed with ASUS at all. I expected a little more for the extra cost, and all I got in return was better packaging on the included cables.

This greatly exceeded my expectations in spite of seeing many video reviews: I've had it two days and used it for the desktop and video apps. The monitor is the display for an Nvidia RTX 4080 super GPU, a Taichi x670E MB, and an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU with 64GB of ram. I don't know how much of this processing power is needed for the monitor to be performing as well as it does, but obviously the hardware has to be able to drive it effectively. 1. The zero black level makes a huge difference. I loved my IPS 1440p monitor that took 10 bit color. It was so much brighter, with more and deeper colors and dynamic range than my LED monitors. I have a dual display setup and can compare the images between the monitors. The IPS (PA272W) looks entirely pale and washed out in comparison, quite low contrast. Even the IPS monitor was itself a big improvement over my older LED display. 2. Keeping the monitor in HDR mode is not good for SDR videos. I got a convenient windows app "HDRTray-v0.5.90" to easily check and change modes. SDR videos look washed out in HDR mode. Even in SDR mode, though, the video's colors look much wider gamut and more intense and realistic on the PG32UCDM. 3. HDR10 4k films look astounding. Better than in movie theaters, even very good ones like the upgraded Grumman's Chinese theater (now Kodak) with 3-laser 4k projection, and much better than your standard 2k digital projection theater. While the resolution is much less than a 35mm film projection (at least 20 million pixels), the wider gamut and dynamic ratio of this monitor are much more important to the experience for me (at least for color video), and obviously for all the theaters moving to digital projection. 4. The 4k HDR10 films look astoundingly realistic. I feel that I am actually watching directly, not via a recording. In fact it looks better than in person, perhaps because of being more close up than when usually watching a scene, Night scenes look better too, perhaps because of light scatter reducing black levels in real urban situations, or perhaps due to a bit increase in color saturation by the film studios. It's really more clear, detailed, and with more subtle color variation, than when taking to someone face to face. At least it gives that strong feeling. 5. I still find it helpful when using VLC player to have the player upscale from 1080p with video sharpening adjusted to a low level, making the image sharper on the 4k display. The GPU is supposed to do something about this too, but not enough. 6. The main drawback to OLED monitors is burn-in. The 3 year warranty shows that Asus has confidence in their new technology and protection mechanisms. There are myths about the pixel clean and pixel refresh options of QD-OLED monitors. What my own research into the details of that show (given the proprietary and secret nature of the Asus processes), is this. Each color of a pixel is a piece of polymer film filled with very tine (0.5 - 2 nm) semiconduction particles called quantum dots. Quantum confinement means the electrons in the free shells or levels in the quantum dots have energy levels dependent of the dot volume. When stimulated by blue LED back lights (3 for each subpixel), the electrons absorb the photons, go to a higher level, then fall back emitting a corresponding color (red or green). The blue subpixel of a pixel has no quantum dots on it. Pixel refresh gets rid of persistent images. It simply cycles each subpixel a number of times that discharges residual energy that causes the persistence. Pixel cleaning happens less often. The organic chemicals in the dots decay with time and use, getting dimmer. The monitor keeps track of how much time the monitor has been used, and how much of that was static images. It estimates the degradation of the subpixels, and increases the set voltage on the transistor gates accordingly. The monitor is manufactured with enough headroom on the blue LEDs to maintain color intensity for some total hours of monitor use- presumably much longer than the 3 year warranty on this monitor. So these processes are entirely desirable and do not negatively affect the monitor performance in any way, as they run by default. (The monitor automatically runs them.) The monitor uses other strategies to prevent burn-in or loss of intensity, such as pixel shifting and dimming the display when nothing is happening. as soon as you do anything, it gets bright again. I did a few more things to prevent burn-in from static images. I installed a convenient app called "AutoHideDesktopIcons.exer" for windows, although windows 11 has a system tray toggle for that. When I left click the desktop, the desktop icons appear. When I middle click the mouse on the desktop, the disappear. The static desktop icons seem a very likely source of burn-in. Another app, "AutoHideMouseCursor", can be set to hide the mouse cursor if it doesn't move after some set time period. If you leave the computer for a long time, the cursor says in the same position and seems like a source of burn in. This avoids that. Both of these free programs leave a small window open on the desktop asking for donations. I made a new desktop (Win+Tab) and moved them to that to hide them. Of course I have the taskbar set to autohide to avoid burn-in from that. 7. I did a lot of checking for dead or stuck pixels. I couldn't find one. This is amazing given there are 24 million subpixels on the screen. It says a lot for Asus manufacturing process and quality control. 8. Using the OSD (On Screen Display) was a bit tricky for a few minutes. Press in on the tiny joystick to open the OSD. What i took time to figure it out is there are two more pressure buttons under the joystick to either side. The left one exits the OSD and right one is the power switch. The onscreen legend is clear about this but it was not intuitive for me to read it at first. The very brief start guide also did not help. 9. Assembly was surprisingly easy. It almost seems to lightweight and fragile a way to support the monitor, and too easy too assemble. But it seems pretty solid, although the monitor has a bit of play in the pivot or roll direction. Maybe I did not secure it to the stand fully. It has no swivel adjustment except for moving the stand. It has no height adjustment and limited tilt adjustment. I am fine with that in exchange for the light, elegant and simple stand. there are other solutions if those adjustments are needed. The monitor is thin yet sturdy, and very light. I like the design, where the screen itself is thin (I estimate 1/8") but a slightly smaller rectangular housing behind it, roughly 1.3" thick, contains the electronics. It looks futuristic. The RGB lighting is minimal and, I think, can be turned off. 10. For my eyes, the slightest trace of pixelation disappears at 16". for an 8k 32" display, that would be 8". It would not add to the actual seen resolution of an image. It would need to be 64" to make sense for use as a desktop monitor, which is way too big for most people. It seems to me 4k resolution is pretty future proof for a desktop monitor as opposed to large screen tv where people might be sitting 6' away. Even for a typical large screen tv for the living room, 8k resolution seems to be overkill. In other words, this 4k monitor seems future proof in terms of resolution. What would be a big improvement in the technology would be brightness. This monitor has an HDR rating of only 400, which is minimal. A major improvement in OLED technology would be needed to reach an HDR 1000 rating. That being said, I decided the OLED image quality was more important than the best HDR dynamic ratios, as for example from mini-LED or micro-LED monitors which have their disadvantages. For me the brightness levels of this monitor are great, as I keep my office fairly dark.

(Pros/Cons at bottom) My computer is running an RTX 4090 so I am utilizing VRR/G-sync and the response time feels perfect without any tearing, there is without a doubt a competitive advantage in gaming over my previous monitors. Night and day. Really impressed with the ASUS ROG Swift so far. I'm color deficient (aka colorblind), and I kid you not, the vibrancy of this bad boi helps assist some of the colors that I previously had trouble identifying on my previous monitor. The blacks are so deep that a black desktop background literally makes open windows look like they're floating in a void on my desk. And this is all with HDR off, I typically don't use HDR as I am still on Windows 10 which has never played nice with HDR in general (possibly a me problem). That being said the HDR isn't washed out at all, and the Dolby Vision seems to work well too, maybe I will play with these options more and update this review. "Shadow Boost" Level 3 setting looks real nice and plays a part in the black "void" mentioned above and below, BUT I did notice some flickering in dark areas during my playthrough of the new game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. I feel like I read about this flickering on other reviews, and I was a bit afraid of it being extreme, but it's really minor and I was specifically looking for it. It's worth mentioning that you can easily turn down or off the "Shadow Boost", which solves the flickering and compromises a bit of the darkness, if you find it too unbearable. It's not consistent though, this was specifically only with the game mentioned, while I have not noticed any flickering from other games. There are lots of settings via the monitor button, as well as software you can download for it with all of the same functions. When switching through the options, there is a slight black out before the input comes back, which is one of my only gripes because it can be hard to differentiate between settings if you can't compare during the black outs. The Picture-in-Picture works great. I was able to work while having a separate input in the corner of the screen for light-gaming. My previous monitor had issues with different sources not playing well with each other, so far this hasn't been an issue with this monitor. It's a little tricky getting the inputs in if you don't have easy access behind the monitor/your table, and I have accidently smudged the monitor with my fingers a few times now trying to blindly plug things in, but this is more of a me problem. This is my first OLED and I plan to take good care of it, it's nice there's a feature to remind you to pixel clean after a certain amount of screen time - 2, 4, or 8 hours. During that process it takes around 5 minutes of blank screen, which is a short enough time to stand up or take a bio break... which you should probably be doing anyway from time to time ;) - Pros: Colors are insanely vibrant. Contrast with and without HDR are a nice deep void. VRR/G-Sync and high framerate look and work great. Response time especially in FPS video games has me at the top of the scoreboard, no joke. No issues with PiP. Cons: Couple seconds of black out while switching between settings. Minor flickering with "Shadow Boost" on, which can be turned off btw. A bit annoying to access the inputs on the back. Smudges somewhat easily (try not to touch the screen obviously). - I'm giving this a 5/5 stars because it surpassed my expectations and the Pros definitely outweigh the Cons (so far). Will update along the way, as this is my first OLED, I am hoping the pixel cleaning function makes this beauty last a long time!