Finally a first sighting of G-Sync Pulsar monitor - Asus XG27AQNGV

t2na · 15 Dec 2025 at 10:09

The first time we've seen any news on this in almost 10 months! No idea if it means it's any closer to being released but hopefully @Baddass will have a bit more info following CES next year.

Asus ROG Strix XG27AQNGV unleashes 360Hz speed with NVIDIA G-Sync Pulsar technology

The Asus ROG Strix XG27AQNGV was leaked on several Chinese retailers and appeared on a current Asus ROG and Resident Evil promotion page, held from December 8, 2025, to February 8, 2026, and is also listed on DisplayPort's and TUV Rheinland's...

www.displayspecifications.com

The only downside I can see initially is DP 1.4 - which is a bit of a shame to have a brand new latest tech monitor and not include DP 2.1 for it, especially for a 360hz 1440p monitor.

Baddass · 15 Dec 2025 at 11:11

I will certainly find out what I can about Pulsar at CES. Hoping to see some demos and news there from a couple of brands,. and hopefully get an update from NVIDIA if I can

Noxia · 15 Dec 2025 at 23:08

Only downside I can see is 27" is what I use as portrait side monitors. Oh and it's 1440p.

Edit. Oh Jesus it's IPS too, what is the point of that overall, people who play professional counterstrike?

Vexr · 16 Dec 2025 at 03:01

Noxia said:
Only downside I can see is 27" is what I use as portrait side monitors. Oh and it's 1440p.

Edit. Oh Jesus it's IPS too, what is the point of that overall, people who play professional counterstrike?

IPS rocks.

Says me on one of the last high-end IPS FALD HDR UW IPS monitors with a genuine old school GSync module (Acer Predator X38S 38" 3840x1600 @ 175Hz)

Honestly wouldn't be surprised if the industry decided modern IPS had the potential to intrude on OLED's territory without the premium price tag, so they conspired to have IPS only be represented in the low-end / weird 1080p high refresh CS niche.

Either way, after seeing Freesync vs Hardware G-Sync, G-Sync Pulsar has a high standard to match in the latter if I'm going to upgrade from my current monitor.

Personality+ · 16 Dec 2025 at 03:29

t2na said:
The first time we've seen any news on this in almost 10 months! No idea if it means it's any closer to being released but hopefully @Baddass will have a bit more info following CES next year.

Asus ROG Strix XG27AQNGV unleashes 360Hz speed with NVIDIA G-Sync Pulsar technology

The Asus ROG Strix XG27AQNGV was leaked on several Chinese retailers and appeared on a current Asus ROG and Resident Evil promotion page, held from December 8, 2025, to February 8, 2026, and is also listed on DisplayPort's and TUV Rheinland's...

www.displayspecifications.com

The only downside I can see initially is DP 1.4 - which is a bit of a shame to have a brand new latest tech monitor and not include DP 2.1 for it, especially for a 360hz 1440p monitor.

about time, will be interesting to see comparisons with 500Hz OLEDs also once out in the wild.

Noxia · 16 Dec 2025 at 07:41

Vexr said:
IPS rocks.

Says me on one of the last high-end IPS FALD HDR UW IPS monitors with a genuine old school GSync module (Acer Predator X38S 38" 3840x1600 @ 175Hz)

Honestly wouldn't be surprised if the industry decided modern IPS had the potential to intrude on OLED's territory without the premium price tag, so they conspired to have IPS only be represented in the low-end / weird 1080p high refresh CS niche.

Either way, after seeing Freesync vs Hardware G-Sync, G-Sync Pulsar has a high standard to match in the latter if I'm going to upgrade from my current monitor.

It's going to be down to personal use again but I would never take higher hz over not having IPS glow, like it's just not an option for me, huge step back in image quality from OLED.

JediFragger · 16 Dec 2025 at 11:50

Noxia said:
Edit. Oh Jesus it's IPS too, what is the point of that overall, people who play professional counterstrike?

Iirc Pulsar won't be available for OLED panels.

t2na · 16 Dec 2025 at 11:58

I'm really interested to know why it's taken almost 2 years for us to get any proper updates on it too. That initial press-release and preview of Pulsar was all the way back in Jan 2024 so it'll be interesting if they've been trying to see how viable it would be to get it working on an OLED monitor too.

The whole main benefit to pulsar specifically is that it combines strobing with VRR to essentiall eliminate any sort of stutter/tearing as well as giving the clearest image possible (the preview in Jan 2025 had that Asus monitor running it at 360hz with motion clarity as clear, if not better, than a 360hz OLED).

We know VRR isn't great on OLED monitors and strobing isn't a think (instead BFI is the alternative) - so maybe it's an IPS first approach and then maybe OLED from there?

chaparral · 16 Dec 2025 at 21:10

t2na said:
I'm really interested to know why it's taken almost 2 years for us to get any proper updates on it too.

Maybe because all the work that gone into it was done before OLED monitors took off and wasn't expecting OLED monitors to come out and flood the market so quickly.

Rroff · 16 Dec 2025 at 21:54

Vexr said:
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if the industry decided modern IPS had the potential to intrude on OLED's territory without the premium price tag, so they conspired to have IPS only be represented in the low-end / weird 1080p high refresh CS niche.

There is also 1-2 attempts with QD-VA which has a lot of potential but seems to have been binned off to push OLED, albeit even a end game QD-VA would be a dead end rather than the basis of future products. I quite like watching movies on my Philips 436M6 as the play of light and colour has a quality that even OLEDs don't have i.e. in a vibrant nature scene or something. (EDIT: Though mind you the OLED on the Lenovo Legion Go 2 is pretty spectacular - not sure how much is the platform but I'm more impressed with it than the average OLED TV).

Noxia · 16 Dec 2025 at 22:03

Rroff said:
There is also 1-2 attempts with QD-VA which has a lot of potential but seems to have been binned off to push OLED, albeit even a end game QD-VA would be a dead end rather than the basis of future products. I quite like watching movies on my Philips 436M6 as the play of light and colour has a quality that even OLEDs don't have i.e. in a vibrant nature scene or something. (EDIT: Though mind you the OLED on the Lenovo Legion Go 2 is pretty spectacular - not sure how much is the platform but I'm more impressed with it than the average OLED TV).

Are you referring to the reactive back lighting? I have that on my LGC2.

edit: Aftermarket thing obv, really adds to immersion IMO.

Rroff · 16 Dec 2025 at 22:20

Noxia said:
Are you referring to the reactive back lighting? I have that on my LGC2.

edit: Aftermarket thing obv, really adds to immersion IMO.

No, there are 1-2 attempts at combining quantum dot tech with an improved VA process - with rather good results, but it does have some caveats which would make it a dead end technology ultimately but still.

t2na · 17 Dec 2025 at 08:35

chaparral said:
Maybe because all the work that gone into it was done before OLED monitors took off and wasn't expecting OLED monitors to come out and flood the market so quickly.

I was talking about this with a friend the other day, it's wild how in 2 years we went from that first 1440p OLED monitor at 240hz (with awful brightness, vignette round the edges and atrocious text clarity) - to then getting 32" 4k 240hz, 27" 4k 240hz, 27" 1440p 540hz (as well as 240/280/360/500) all in the space of 18-24 months.

I remember getting a 1440p 144hz monitor in 2018 (the Dell 24" TN panel) and there was basically only 165hz available at that resolution for a faster refresh rate. If you wanted 4k it was pretty much only going to be 60hz - and 1080p capped at 240hz. And that was the situation for a good 2/3 years!

motionClarity · 19 Dec 2025 at 14:35

Ulmb2 was really good on my 540hz Asus TN, because the TN is so fast, the RED phosphur backlight was unnoticeable, but on my pg27aqn ulmb2 red fringing was extremely noticeable on the IPS LCD, and ulmb2 wasn't that great in terms of motion clarity compared to the TNs, I can see why optimum tech never used a centered ufo test, in his review. But I think combining ulmb2 and vrr and having a dual backlight like the new zowies dyac2 could be amazing, if someone does that

motionClarity · 19 Dec 2025 at 14:38

t2na said:
I'm really interested to know why it's taken almost 2 years for us to get any proper updates on it too. That initial press-release and preview of Pulsar was all the way back in Jan 2024 so it'll be interesting if they've been trying to see how viable it would be to get it working on an OLED monitor too.

The whole main benefit to pulsar specifically is that it combines strobing with VRR to essentiall eliminate any sort of stutter/tearing as well as giving the clearest image possible (the preview in Jan 2025 had that Asus monitor running it at 360hz with motion clarity as clear, if not better, than a 360hz OLED).

We know VRR isn't great on OLED monitors and strobing isn't a think (instead BFI is the alternative) - so maybe it's an IPS first approach and then maybe OLED from there?

VRR aside any zowie even at 120hz with backlight strobing is clearer than a 360hz oled, 120hz dyac2 monitor is comparable to a 500hz LCD IPS

Freddie1980 · 19 Dec 2025 at 17:08

Just when you think G-sync and expensive proprietary daughter boards are dead you bank on Asus to keep the corpse upright for a while longer.

motionClarity · 19 Dec 2025 at 21:38

i love backlight strobing, its massive difference in fast paced games, i had an oled and wasnt impressed

t2na · 4 Jan 2026 at 17:38

Leaked price of 600USD for the XG27AQNGV so it'll be interesting to see where it lines up in the UK.

Last few months have been good for the UK and EU with both pricing and availability compared to the US, we had all of the tandem WOLED models and the true black 32” models available and in stock for months before the US got them.

Genuinely more excited to see the Gsync reveals at CES this year than the OLEDs, it’ll be good if we get multiple monitors releasing in Q1 from multiple brands at varying sizes/resolutions all supporting Gsync Pulsar and having a dedicated Gsync module.

t2na · 6 Jan 2026 at 08:23

NVIDIA G-SYNC Monitors with Pulsar & Ambient Adaptive Tech Available January 7: Enjoy Smoother, Clearer Gaming With Over 1,000 Hz Effective Motion Clarity

NVIDIA G-SYNC Pulsar displays from Acer, AOC, ASUS and MSI are available worldwide this week. G-SYNC Pulsar delivers flawless variable frequency strobing, variable refresh, and variable overdrive, establishing a new gold standard for motion clarity and stutter-free gameplay.

www.nvidia.com

"G-SYNC Pulsar displays from Acer, AOC, ASUS and MSI will be available starting January 7th, 6AM PT, at select retailers, with additional retailers and units coming over the following weeks."

Looks like the first batch of monitors will all be 27" 360hz 1440p monitors.

g-sync-pulsar-gaming-monitors-available-january-7-2026.jpg

t2na · 6 Jan 2026 at 08:54

So 4 models releasing from later tomorrow (although unsure on UK availability) - perhaps @Baddass might know a bit more here once he's back from his 30 hour work days at CES.

Personally am interested in the Asus model the most, I've really been enjoying how good their OSD is on their panels and they seem to be more proactive than others with firmware updates (although MSI have been really good with their OLED firmware, particularly for custom EOTF tracking changes too).

Article from TFT Central on the MSI model:

MSI Announce the MPG 272QRF X36, a 27" 360Hz Rapid IPS Gaming Screen with NVIDIA G-sync Pulsar - TFTCentral

Share this contentMSI have announced today their new MPG 272QRF X36 gaming monitor, a 27″ sized screen built around a 360Hz refresh rate ‘Rapid IPS’ panel, and offering support for....[click link for more]

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