Asus announced the 32-inch ROG Swift PG32UQ, its first HDMI 2.1 monitor, and the second we’ve seen after Acer’s announcement just a few days ago. These new monitors are sure to start filling up our roundup of the best gaming monitors available when they land on shelves. The increased bandwidth in HDMI 2.1 allows refresh rates of up to 120Hz while pushing out 4K resolution, with a low 1ms response time. 144Hz 4K can be achieved through the use of the DisplayPort, but it uses VESA’s ‘Display Stream Compression’ technology to reduce the required bandwidth. You’ll want one of the best graphics cards available to hit that refresh rate in UHD, however.
Asus is also making many of its gaming laptops available with the RTX 30 series mobile GPUs, as well as the Ryzen 5000 mobile gaming CPUs announced yesterday by AMD. Its dual-display laptop, the ROG Zephyrus Duo 15, comes with an RTX 3080 GPU and AMD’s 16-threaded Ryzen 5900HX chip. After seeing a triple-screen Microsoft Flight Simulator setup running on a 3080-powered laptop at Nvidia’s conference yesterday, this combination should be an absolute dab hand for running the best PC games at their highest settings.