AOC AGON PRO AG276QZD 240Hz OLED Monitor Review

Performance

This monitor SLAPS the moment you turn it on. The picture is alive with vibrant and accurate colour, fantastic brightness, perfect black levels, and of course, staggering levels of contrast. If you’ve used OLED before, you’ll know, but even then, for OLED to hit 1000-nits isn’t common, this is a pretty extreme monitor in that regard.

Unsurprisingly, there is a cost to that, and to help keep the panel cool, it must have some absolutely monstrous heatsinks in the back, because for a 27″ panel, it’s incredibly heavy. Not that I expect to be doing bench presses with it or anything, but damn, it’s got some weight to it.

When it comes to panel technologies, you’re not short on amazing options, with both G-Sync and FreeSync support, you can enjoy tear-free gaming. That’s important too, as 1440@240Hz is a tall order even for the best of the best graphics cards, so if and when you do dip below that, the sync technologies will keep things looking their best.

The response time is telepathic speed, and while you wouldn’t think going from say, 1ms to 0.03ms would be noticeable, it absolutely is. Cutting input latency is king when it comes to competitive gaming, and I can’t state strongly enough how freaking instant this panel feels when playing literally any game.

Of course, you’ll want to enable technologies such as Reflex on Nvidia or Anti-Lag 2 if you’re on AMD to help reduce system latency too, or you’ll be throwing away all that advantage.

When it comes to gaming, it’s in a league of the absolute best of the best gaming monitors on the market today, with no exception. Sure, there are higher resolution, higher refresh rate, or simply larger monitors. But what’s here is well balanced, with extreme refresh rate, good resolution relative to the panel size, and one of the finest OLED gaming panels I’ve ever seen.