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

The media could not be loaded. Using a glossy screen makes computing enjoyable again. The vibrant colors and sharp details of the user interface truly pop, making everything from daily tasks to gaming feel more immersive. Gaming on this monitor is an exceptional experience—it's as if you're stepping inside the game world. The level of clarity and vividness it offers is truly a game-changer.In my attached video review, I discuss how matte screens diffuse light across the surface, which I believe causes more eye fatigue compared to the crisp clarity of a glossy screen. While matte screens create a hazy effect, glossy screens may reflect light sources, but the reflections are only noticeable when directly aligned with the light. Most of the time, the reflections fade into the background when you're focused on the screen.The glossy finish provides such exceptional clarity that it easily outweighs any minor inconvenience from reflections. Of course, this is just my personal experience—I'm not an eye doctor or expert—but I think the benefits are undeniable.This monitor is an excellent choice, though it’s worth noting that exciting new technologies are on the horizon. Innovations like Nvidia Pulsar and tandem OLED displays (as seen on the iPad Pro) are expected in the next few years. Alternatively, Mini-LED monitors with a glossy finish will be arriving sooner, offering similar clarity with less risk of burn-in compared to OLED.Correction from my video: I mentioned that it's best to cap your frame rate to a factor of the monitor's refresh rate (e.g., 60, 80, or 120). However, this isn't necessary with FreeSync Premium Pro, which this monitor supports! Unlike regular V-Sync, which can cause input lag and stuttering when frame rates drop below the monitor's refresh rate, FreeSync Premium Pro is an advanced type of adaptive sync that dynamically adjusts the monitor's refresh rate to match the GPU's frame rate in real time, with added support for HDR content. In other words, just let your GPU run without a cap, and the monitor handles the smooth playback automatically.Lastly, in my video review, I mentioned that the little ROG logo on the lower bezel couldn't be turned off. I later discovered that this can be disabled via the 'POWER INDICATOR' setting—problem solved!Overall, the 32UCDM is a fantastic monitor that’s hard to beat for both work and play. I know the price tag is high but believe me, it will not matter when you experience this monitor. The money spent won't matter to you. Highly recommended! Good luck, and enjoy the immersive experience.___ Update____This monitor continues to impress me—it’s the best I’ve ever owned! Since my initial review, I’ve discovered even more reasons to love it. Thanks to its higher pixel density (140 PPI), I’ve realized that I don’t need to game at 4K native resolution. Playing games at 1440p on this QD 4K panel offers a comparable experience to gaming on a non-QD 4K display, freeing up significant GPU power.This extra performance headroom allows me to crank up in-game settings and focus on enhancing the overall visual quality without needing to push for a higher resolution. With my 7900 GRE, I am now able to game at 1440p with 60 FPS on the most graphically demanding titles with Ray Tracing various settings Enabled!Additionally, playing at 1440p instead of 4k also lets me use higher texture settings, as the reduced resolution demand saves processing power. This results in stunning visual fidelity without requiring the brute force of running games at native 4K resolution.This monitor is saving me from the expense of buying a top-tier GPU. Instead, I’m planning to invest in a GPU optimized for the best 1440p settings and Ray Tracing capable hardware rather than overpaying for one that pushes 4K at near-maximum settings.I’m absolutely in love with this monitor, and it has reshaped the way I think about gaming and display technology. Highly recommended!

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.