When Samsung introduced the world's first 27-inch OLED gaming monitor with 4K resolution On Thursday, Engadget's Igor Bonifacic predicted that other providers would soon follow suit. (After all, Samsung is also the largest supplier OLED gaming monitor panels.) Of course, MSI followed suit on the same day CES 2025 with two monitors with familiar specs: a 27-inch 4K QD-OLED display and a 27-inch QD-OLED with an insanely smooth 500Hz refresh rate.
First up: the 27-inch 4K QD-OLED, which is ideally marketed as… MPG 272URX QD-OLED. (Sure, why not!) MSI bills its monitor as the first monitor to combine this panel with DisplayPort 2.1awhich can provide a better combination of resolution and frame rate. Like its Samsung counterpart (G81SF), it has a 240Hz refresh rate and should look nice and sharp at 166ppi.
MSI says this panel “significantly reduces color fringing,” which should help with the poor text clarity too often associated with QD-OLED screens. As my colleague Igor points out, this could be the perfect all-around monitor for gaming, work, or anything else you can throw at it.
It supports NVIDIA G-SYNC technology, so smooth gaming experience is unlikely to be a problem. The MPG 272URX QD-OLED even won a CES 2025 Innovation Award.
The QHD QD-OLED model with a 27-inch screen also has a memorable name: MPG 272QR QD-OLED X50. (Yes!) MSI is marketing this monitor to “all mainstream gamers,” likely due to its lower resolution (2560 x 1440). It also uses DisplayPort 2.1a and (like the Samsung) can have a gray-to-gray pixel response time of 0.03ms. It's VESA ClearMR 21000 certified, so motion blur shouldn't be an issue when using the incredible 500Hz refresh rate.
MSI has not yet shared pricing or release date information for any of the models.