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Since 2018, I've reviewed all sorts of desktop monitors, running more than 100 panels, big and small, through our rigorous PC Labs testing regimen. I see a lot of screens, so I was thrilled to come across the Asus ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM among Amazon's Cyber Monday Deals. This Editors' Choice-winning 32-inch gaming monitor has a high-resolution QD-OLED screen with exceptional image quality and a wealth of gaming features. It's on sale for just $899, 30% off its list price. And it's still available!
What to Look for in a Monitor Deal
This Cyber Monday has shaped up to be a good one for buying monitors, with scads of deals on gaming, portable, and professional displays from Asus, Samsung, ViewSonic, and other manufacturers. The best deals are those that offer a significant discount from their introductory list price, apart from any price hikes since inception. That's a factor this year because tariff-related increases have hit many tech products, including displays.
The product I'm zooming in on here, the Asus PG32UCDM, has not seen any jump in list price, and the $400 sliced off that price in the Amazon deal makes it a better buy than ever in the competitive OLED monitor world. (See our review here.)
So, about the Asus ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM. Its 31.5-inch flat-screen panel has a 4K UHD (3,840-by-2,160-pixel) resolution. The panel employs quantum dot OLED (QD-OLED), a vivid variant of standard OLED. It offers OLED's exquisite contrast, with a rated contrast ratio of 1,500,000:1. The screen features a maximum refresh rate of 240Hz, supports AMD FreeSync Premium Pro and VESA Adaptive Sync, and is an Nvidia G-Sync Compatible panel. And in our testing, it showed superb, sub-millisecond input lag.
You'll run out of things to connect to the Swift before it runs out of ports. The PG32UCDM features one DisplayPort 1.4 (with DSC) connector, two HDMI 2.1 ports, three USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, two USB-C/DisplayPort connectors (one capable of delivering between 65 and 90 watts of power), and a headphone jack. (Asus bundles DisplayPort, HDMI, and USB-C cables in the box.)
The PG32UCDM's stand allows for all the usual ergonomic twists and bends, including height, tilt, swivel, and pivot control. It can also be wall- or arm-mounted, features the 100mm-by-100mm VESA hole mounting pattern, and includes a VESA adapter. The back is decked out with programmable RGB lighting.
Not only does the PG32UCDM's screen render games in vibrant colors with stunning contrast—highlighted by deep blacks and the ability to show detail even in dark scenes—it is also suitable for content creation. A screen of its size and resolution has a pixel density of about 140 pixels per inch (ppi), which is more than enough for use in video or photo editing.
In our color coverage tests, the ROG Swift spanned 100% of the sRGB color gamut, 97% of the Adobe RGB color gamut, and 97% of the DCI-P3 color gamut. We measured its Delta E (color accuracy) at 1.5; we consider a Delta E of less than 2 as suitable for creative work. This exceptional monitor would live its best life as a display for a content creator with a passion for gaming, or for a gamer who moonlights as a graphic artist (or game designer).
The Asus PG32UCDM is about as close to perfection as we've seen in a mid-sized gaming monitor. Just keep in mind that to get good frame rates with a 4K monitor, you will want to pair it with a powerful rig equipped with a high-end GPU. In giving it an Editors' Choice award, the only things we dinged it for are an unsightly power brick and its slightly elevated price. With this Cyber Monday deal, Amazon has addressed the latter issue. It is selling the PG32UCDM for just $899, 30% off its original list price of $1,299. Now, Asus, about that power brick....
FAQs
Do Gaming Monitors Go on Sale for Black Friday?
Gaming monitors are often discounted for Black Friday. Besides the model here, other Asus gaming monitors in the ROG Swift and ROG Strix lines are also on sale for Black Friday. This year, based on what we've seen, you'll also enjoy an abundance of top-rated Samsung Odyssey gaming monitors on sale at steep discounts.
Does Black Friday Have Good Monitor Deals?
Black Friday is a great time to buy a monitor, but keep in mind that online retailers frequently offer discounts on displays, sometimes rivaling Black Friday deals, during Amazon Prime Day and at various holidays and throughout the year. A good way to shop is to research and select a few models you like, then continue to scope out their pricing until one of them falls within your target range. After all, Black Friday and Cyber Monday only come once a year, and you may not want to wait that long before making your purchase. Especially if you're giving a gaming display as a holiday gift.
That said, you'll have a greater selection of monitors on sale all at once on Black Friday, versus a more scattered selection for the rest of the year. If you want to have a variety of on-sale choices to select from, this is the prime time for monitor shopping.