Friday, May 2nd 2025
MSI's Lower Cost 4K OLED Gaming Monitor is Going Global
Back in April, MSI unveiled the MAG 272UP QD-OLED X24 in China and now the display has tipped up on its global website, suggesting we'll see a world-wide release of what is set to be a more budget friendly 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor from the company. The base specs are quite similar to those of the MPG 272URX QD-OLED, as both models offer a 240 Hz refresh rate, a 0.03 ms response time, a peak HDR brightness of 1000 nits and a VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400 certification. Both also have what MSI refers to as a graphene film with a custom heatsink to help cool the QD-OLED panel, as well as MSI's OLED Care 2.0 and a three-year warranty.
However, the MAG 272UP QD-OLED X24 only comes with DP 1.4a support, rather than DP 2.1a, although both displays sport a pair of HDMI 2.1 ports and a USB Type-C input with DP Alt mode. That said, the MAG 272UP QD-OLED X24 only offers a meagre 15 W USB PD charging, whereas the MPG 272URX offer 98 W charging and MSI has also dropped the USB hub and KVM support on the MAG model, but a headphone jack is still present. MSI has also gone for basic VESA Adaptive-Sync support, so no FreeSync or G-Sync support on this one. On the plus side, MSI has added console specific modes at 60 and 120 Hz at three different resolutions, something we haven't seen before and VRR is supported for consoles as well. The overall design remains the same though, making it easy to mistake the affordable SKU for the more feature rich SKU. So far there's no word on pricing outside of China, where it costs 5,499 RMB.
Sources:
MSI, via Notebook Check
However, the MAG 272UP QD-OLED X24 only comes with DP 1.4a support, rather than DP 2.1a, although both displays sport a pair of HDMI 2.1 ports and a USB Type-C input with DP Alt mode. That said, the MAG 272UP QD-OLED X24 only offers a meagre 15 W USB PD charging, whereas the MPG 272URX offer 98 W charging and MSI has also dropped the USB hub and KVM support on the MAG model, but a headphone jack is still present. MSI has also gone for basic VESA Adaptive-Sync support, so no FreeSync or G-Sync support on this one. On the plus side, MSI has added console specific modes at 60 and 120 Hz at three different resolutions, something we haven't seen before and VRR is supported for consoles as well. The overall design remains the same though, making it easy to mistake the affordable SKU for the more feature rich SKU. So far there's no word on pricing outside of China, where it costs 5,499 RMB.
57 Comments on MSI's Lower Cost 4K OLED Gaming Monitor is Going Global
It only supports HBR3 ~~25.95GBit/s ~~ 4K@120@8-bit, or 4K@97@10-bit.
Oh... except the are DP 2.1a PC video monitors that support UHBR20 and those that don't
Considering what I'm doing on my PC it's not the brightest idea to buy an OLED display but I damn sure would've loved to experiment with such a monitor.
Are they first person shooters? No.
Do they need 160 Hz? Most likely no, but at least I get more than 60 Hz.
So, that's $760.
It's not aboot who you are.
There are norms used in general internet contexts, such as $ = USD.
www.msi.com/Monitor/MAG-272UP-QD-OLED-X24/SpecificationPay attention to the up to phrase. up to means = nothing. Seems MSI is another Hoax brand.
Looking for the 1.4a specs is not easy. Not sure if that is the right page but nope: www.displayport.org/faq/#tab-general-faqs
It's sad to rely on 3rd party unverified nonsense like wikipedia, although there seems to be displayport homepage.
that hbr3 means the display maybe be able to do 97 or 120Hz @ fake 4k resolution -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort
So sad MSI is another hoax brand. Fancy 240 Hz sticker and a connector which may provide half of the advertised speed.
-- MSI homepage advertises a flaw in the panel. That monitor looks even worse when checking the homepage. It seems that monitor has issue with static images and brightness of certain things. Fancy promoting certain color features but do not provide a calibration certificate for delta smaller 1 from the factory. 3 years warranty is not much.
- Pixel shift.
- Panel Protect
- Taskbar protection -> i doubt this will work for non windows operating systems, who have top and bottom. or left and botton, and so on configuration with customiseable pixel width for the "notifcation" / "taskbar" panel
- You may look there yourself: www.msi.com/Monitor/MAG-272UP-QD-OLED-X24
My current Monitor runs for 12 hours non stop - without such fancy software demands.Even currently, it's better to buy a native 1440p OLED that you can drive at 240 framerates to really drive the refresh rate to the max to really experience the speed and responsiveness over "wow how sharp the image is" and game barely runs at 60 fps at which most people have to use such high levels of DLSS/FSR the image looks like poop.
Buy monitors smart to not put all the burden on owning expensive GPU to run it or to be forced to constantly upgrade GPU's because they have problems keeping up with games on high resolution monitors. Coz even 1440p is sometimes hard to drive fast on high end graphic cards, let alone 4K...
There are multiple 4K 240 Hz OLEDs out there and only few of them are DP 2.1 (and even fewer with UHBR20).
Also, there are no QD-OLEDs with dual mode. Only W-OLED support doubled refresh rate at 1080p.
Case in point:
Same panel, also DP 1.4, fully supports 240 Hz with DSC enabled.