Their ASUS XG27AQWMG beats the AW2725DF on HDR brightness, text and blacks, but has the same banding as the Gigabyte.
“Everything else is better - HDR brightness, text quality, no more raised blacks”
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Loves the XG27AQWMG's glossy coating and HDR pop.
“The glossy coating adds so much to this as well… love it.”
Their first unit had banding almost everywhere and went back; the second is much better, with banding only at very low grey levels and some dirty screen effect.
“I got the second XG27AQWMG today (April 2026 batch) and it's so much better. It's still visible in very low grey percentages”
After 200+ hours the grey banding hasn't improved and they notice it in almost every dark scene in games and movies.
“I thought the monitor would "break in" after about 100 hours, but I've now used it for 200+ and it hasn't improved.”
After two RMAs the last one fixed 90% of the issues, but expecting banding or DSE to come back they are weighing the refund.
“After 2 RMAs, I was offered a refund option for my monitor. I must admit, this last RMA solved 90% of the issues”
Owned since July 2026: the banding line seems to fade after 700 hours, with no burn-in and only occasional image retention.
“I'm aware of the line, but it seems to start to get less after 700h. I've had it since July 2026.”
Really good and one of the best OLED monitors to them, though it has grey banding and the glossy panel picks up micro scratches from a cloth.
“İ am using the exact same model, it is really good but have 2 bad sides, first grey bending obviously”
Won over by the glossy finish and blacks; little banding noticed in games.
“From the very first moment, I was won over by its glossy finish and how it renders black”
Their XG27AQWMG's automatic pixel clean causes heavy gray banding that needs a manual clean; they filed a bug report with ASUS.
“I've been seeing more and more posts both here and on Asus forums regarding a bug on the automatic Pixel clean causing exaggerated grey banding and DSE which requires a manual clean to fix.”
Their new late-2025-batch XG27AQWMG shows bad banding lines in dark scenes and grayscale tests despite firmware updates and pixel cleaning.
“This morning it looked fine, but I could see some lines playing Hunt Showdown, now in the dark it’s pretty bad.”
Owns an XG27AQWMG and doesn't find its tandem WOLED banding bothersome.
“I have a XG27AQWMG and for my use case I don't find it bothersome but your milleage may vary”
A recent XG27AQWMG buyer says HDR is simply amazing in games after calibration, but SDR is still poor with unbalanced brightness despite ICC profiles and tweaks.
“HDR is simply amazing in games (you'd have to tweak almost each game separately in its HDR/Brightness settings unfortunately, there's no escaping that”
Their ASUS XG27AQWMG has burn-in after 2,100 hours.
“After 2100 hours of my first OLED monitor it now has burn in”
On their third XG27AQWMG panel after two RMAs (degradation, a dead proximity sensor), it has no vertical banding but a very pronounced dirty-screen texture.
“But it has a very pronounced dirty image texture/jeans te”
Their ASUS XG27AQWMG had a dirty-screen effect and five dead pixels visible on white.
“the Asus on the other hand had the dirty screen effect and 5 dead pixels visible on a white backgro”
The glossy XG27AQWMG looks great but gives them bad eye strain, unlike their matte Gigabyte MO27Q28G.
“I wanted to try a glossy so I got the ASUS XG27AQWMG which looks great.”
Their XG27AQWMG has noticeable gray uniformity issues on bright pages, but not in games.
“I have one myself, and gray uniformity is definitely an issue.”
Bought the XG27AQWMG; expensive with banding and DSE, but worth it to them.
“It was expensive and has problems but was worth it for me.”
Returned the XG27AQWMG after two weeks: the glossy reflections were too much and brightness fluctuations drove them crazy.
“I had an ASUS XG27AQWMG for a couple of weeks and ultimately returned it because the reflections from the glossy coating were just too much for me.”
Their XG27AQWMG has visible gray banding; pixel cleaning helped but didn't remove it.
“I know everybody is tired of this , but I still wanted to post it just for the statistics.”
Returned an XG27AQDMGR for the XG27AQWMG, which they find the most beautiful thing in the world.
“my XG27AQWMG is the most beautiful thing in the world, I swear.”
Just got the ASUS XG27AQWMG and is selling their Samsung G81SF; the tandem WOLED even seems to have better colour, with insane brightness.
“I feel like the tandem woled weirdly even has better colors than qd and the brightness is also just insane for oled”
Their new XG27AQWMG shows very noticeable lines in dark and grey scenes and even blue skies.
“Very noticeable lines, most visible in dark/gray scenes but can definitely see them in like a blue sky also”
A May 2026 batch XG27AQWMG still has dark-grey banding, but at normal brightness it is amazing and they are keeping it.
“it is still amazing when you actually use it on high/decent brightness like a normal fucking person”
Returned their XG27AQWMG after a week: spectacular but oversaturated, slight grey banding, and draining on the eyes for work.
“It was spectacular but also waaaay too eye-candy oversaturated.”
Their first OLED, a May 2026 XG27AQWMG, has less banding than feared.
“The banding wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be and this looks like a win in my book.”
Their XG27AQWMG's banding was fixed by a firmware update; well worth buying.
“it came with banding issues at first but after the firmware update it got fixed.”
Three XG27AQWMG units had bad banding; a January 2026 batch unit is perfect with no banding or black crush.
“I tried 3 units and they were all horrible”
The XG27AQWMG beat expectations: great colour, blacks, brightness and coating.
“This is actually even better than I anticipated. The colors, the blacks, it is definitely bright enough.”
Their new XG27AQWMG has bad banding after 8 pixel refreshes in 20 hours.
“I've just bought the new Tandem WOLED Asus XG27AQWMG, and of course I got a bad lottery”
Returned the XG27AQWMG: a denim-like dirty screen effect visible in apps and games, and not a big enough upgrade over IPS.
“there is a dirty gray color, like a denim/jeans texture across the screen.”
Their XG27AQWMG's slight banding vanished after two pixel refreshes, leaving it perfectly clean.
“My wife is using the aqwmg and it had very very slight banding and it went completely away with just 2 pixel refreshes.”
A February-batch XG27AQWMG shows banding and dirty screen effect in tests and dark-mode apps, but not in games.
“in gaming and content (that is the only scenario where i would highly dislike the banding and dse) i dont really notice it.”
Their XG27AQWMG has one dead pixel visible only up close on white, which they can live with.
“It’s only noticeable on WHITE screen and I got to be really up close to monitor to see it clearly, I can live with that.”