Asus ROG Swift PG32UCDM MSRP $1,300.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “This Asus Asus ROG Swift PG32UCDM is the QD-OLED gaming monitor you've been waiting for.” Pros Cons Asus came out of the first wave of OLED gaming monitors as the unofficial champion, sitting on the list of the best gaming monitors with entries like the PG27AQDM and PG42UQ. Now, we have the second wave of OLED gaming monitors, starting with the PG32UCDM.
Asus takes advantage of the bit of height the stand provides to cast down an ROG logo on your desk. This isn’t a new feature, but it still looks super cool. Elsewhere, you’ll find RGB on the back of the stand with some Swift branding, as well as an ROG logo that illuminates in a grid. You can control that through the on-screen display or with Asus Aura Sync.
Any of these features on their own wouldn’t mean much, but add them together, and there’s a ton of value in this display. You can get this same panel elsewhere, but Asus really does go above and beyond to make its version of this monitor stand out in an increasingly crowded market. In the on-screen display, you have a ton of options between different picture modes, six-axis color adjustment, and settings for Adaptive Sync, but I want to highlight two settings in particular. First, in HDR, Asus allows you to adjust the brightness. This will change the color response, but most monitors lock you out of brightness adjustment when you turn on HDR. Here, there’s an option.
Some of the best color we’ve seen We’ve seen the panel on the PG32UCDM before, so I knew what to expect going into this review. It’s third-gen QD-OLED, fit with great brightness, perfect contrast, and solid color accuracy. And Asus also gives you a lot of options to tweak your picture quality. Asus claims a peak brightness of 1,000 nits, and I know this panel can reach it. But I wasn’t able to get there with the picture presets. There are four HDR modes included with the monitor, and the Console HDR settings allowed me to hit just over 800 nits for a 4% window. That matches the Alienware 32 QD-OLED for the same window size, but Asus fell a bit short for a 1% window with a result of 947 nits. In practice, a difference of 50 or so nits really doesn’t matter at this level.
No surprise, great gaming Gaming on the PG32UCDM is incredible, but that probably doesn’t come as a surprise. You get all the things here — there’s a 240Hz refresh rate, FreeSync Premium Pro and G-Sync Compatible certification, support for HDR10 and Dolby Vision for consoles, and the insane response times of OLED.