This Gigabyte gaming monitor is our best reviewed OLED of the year so far, and it just got even better with a $90 discount

Yesterday, our Nick wrote about the Ultrawide Asus ROG Strix XG34WCDG for $649, and yes, I’m back with yet another cracking deal on an OLED. Two gaming monitor deals back to back may feel a bit much but, oo, I do love it when a bit of kit we gave a 90% comes tumbling down in price mere months later. The Gigabyte MO27Q28GR is a 27-inch gaming monitor that our resident oligarch of OLEDs, Jeremy, was particularly taken with. Now, you can see what all the fuss is about for nearly $90 less.

In his Gigabyte MO27Q28GR review, Jeremy pitches this W-OLED panel as bringing “very nearly all of LG’s latest OLED tech to the table, with the notable exception, despite the confusing ‘RGB’ branding, of RGB-stripe subpixel structure.” Long, twisty story short, this is an excellent 1440p screen for the price—which is now only $509 from Amazon.

The Gigabyte MO27Q28GR is a show piece for LG’s W-OLED tech, with this gaming monitor delivering “a seriously punchy HDR experience” according to Jeremy. He elaborates, “That’s most notably the case in darker scenes with some small, bright highlights, where the details absolutely zing. And, of course, as with all OLED panels, there’s perfect per-pixel lighting where off actually means off and thus there’s zero light bleed, no halos around brighter objects, no backlight zones clumsily pinging on and off. You get the idea.”

Speaking of shadowy scenes, Marathon’s first proper season just started, and I’d say that’s as good an excuse as any to really soak in all of its dark cyberpunk vibes by diving into Night Marsh with this gaming monitor. Jeremy did feel that Samsung’s more recent QD-OLED monitors still have the edge when it comes to brighter scenes, but that doesn’t mean the Gigabyte MO27Q28GR is a dull looking OLED by any means.

He, ahem, highlights the Gigabyte MO27Q28GR HyperNits feature in particular, explaining, “It’s essentially the same as MSI’s EOTF Boost mode, as included with the MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 panel […], and what it aims to do is maintain broader scene brightness in the HDR 1500 mode. Typically, the maximum peak HDR brightness modes on OLED panels allow for really high peaks but tend to crush overall scene brightness; HyperNits addresses that by boosting the EOTF curve.”

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Add to that this 1440p monitor enjoys a 0.03 ms pixel response plus a 280 Hz refresh rate, and the Gigabyte MO27Q28GR is great whether you’re skulking in the dark or blasting Rooks in the cold, clinical light of day on Tau Ceti IV. But let’s bring this short-story-made-long home by looping back around to what the lack of RGB-stripe subpixel structure means for this monitor.

Basically, while this is a great monitor for gaming, the choice to stick with RGWB subpixels means that fonts can be rendered a little fuzzily, although in this case you have to really get in close to notice. Sure, that will be far from a deal breaker for most PC Gamers, but as someone who spends all day everyday writing, reading, and editing text, my eyes sting just thinking about even a little bit of OLED font fuzz.