When Samsung unveiled the world’s first 27-inch 4K gaming OLED monitor 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.) Sure enough, MSI followed suit the same day at CES 2025 with two monitors with familiar specifications: a 27-inch QD-OLED 4K display and a 27-inch QD-OLED display with an incredibly smooth 500Hz refresh rate.
First up: the 27-inch 4K QD-OLED, marketed to perfection as… MPG 272URX QD-OLED. (Sure, why not!) MSI differentiates its monitor by being the first to combine this panel with DisplayPort 2.1awhich can provide a better combination of resolution and frame rates. Like Samsung’s equivalent (the G81SF), it has a 240Hz refresh rate and should look nice and sharp at 166 PPI.
MSI claims that this panel “significantly reduces color fringing,” which should contribute to the poor text clarity that is all too common on QD-OLED displays. As my colleague Igor points out, this could be an ideal all-purpose monitor for gaming, work, or whatever else you can throw at it.
It supports NVIDIA’s G-SYNC technology, so smooth gameplay probably won’t be a problem. The MPG 272URX QD-OLED even won an innovation award at CES 2025.
The 27-inch QHD QD-OLED model also has a catchy and memorable name: the 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 Samsung’s) can have a gray-to-gray pixel response time of 0.03ms. It’s received VESA ClearMR 21000 certification, so motion blur shouldn’t be an issue when you’re taking advantage of its blazing 500Hz refresh rate.
MSI has yet to share any pricing or release date information for either model.
