MSI also has a 27-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor at CES 2025

When Samsung introduced the world’s first 27-inch 4K gaming OLED monitor on Thursday, Engadget’s Igor Bonifacic predicted that other vendors would soon follow suit. (After all, Samsung is also the biggest supplier of OLED panels for gaming monitors.) Of course, MSI followed suit the same day on 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 advertised to perfection as… the MPG 272URX QD-OLED. (Sure, why not!) MSI is touting its monitor as the first to combine this panel with DisplayPort 2.1awhich can provide a better combination of resolution and frame rate. Like the Samsung equivalent (G81SF), it has a 240Hz refresh rate and should look nice and crisp at 166 PPI.

MSI says this panel “significantly reduces color fringing”, which should help with the poor text clarity all too common with QD-OLED screens. As my colleague Igor points out, this could be an ideal all-round monitor for gaming, work or anything 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 took home an innovation award at CES 2025.

The 27-inch QHD QD-OLED model also has a catchy and memorable name: MPG 272QR QD-OLED X50. (Yes!) MSI is marketing this monitor to “all the mainstream gamers out there”, presumably because of its lower (2560 x 1440) resolution. It also uses DisplayPort 2.1a and (like the Samsung) can have a 0.03ms gray-to-gray pixel response time. It’s been VESA ClearMR 21000 certified, so motion blur shouldn’t be a problem when you’re enjoying its incredible 500Hz refresh rate.

MSI has yet to share pricing or release date information for the two models.