[PCM2]

Our review of the Gigabyte M27UP is now live. This is a ‘dual mode’ monitor with 160Hz ‘4K’ UHD IPS panel, also capable of running 320Hz FHD. It really sets the benchmark for ‘4K’ UHD gaming price to performance in my view and offered respectable performance in many areas. The 320Hz capability can be useful for competitive gaming, though I personally found the scaling process used for the ‘dual mode’ a bit odd from my normal viewing position (some would find it fine). The panel used has a light to very light matte screen surface, so not ‘very matte’ (lightly grainy, not ‘smeary’), contrast performance was average for the panel and so was colour output really. The gamut was slightly lower than I expected from the model specs but sat at that mid point between sRGB and DCI-P3 which some will enjoy. HDR performance was unimpressive, as expected, but it redeemed itself with competent pixel responses across the VRR range. As long as you don’t mind a little overshoot, otherwise a response time setting between ‘Picture Quality’ and ‘Smart OD’ might’ve been nice. A decent strobe backlight setting that can be used with VRR was also included, though the usual KSF phosphor artifacts were present.

A quick comparison with the MSI MPG 274URF, which is another model I’ve recommended since testing:

– The MSI offers higher USB-C PD of 65W vs 15W

– The MSI has a superior strobe backlight implementation due to lack of KSF phosphors. Though the Gigabyte’s is also decent if you’re not bothered by KSF phosphor artifacts.

– And the most important differentiator for the MSI in my view is true wide gamut support with excellent Adobe RGB and DCI-P3 coverage. Rather than being restricted to ~90% DCI-P3 (if I’m being generous) with far from complete Adobe RGB coverage. This makes it more vibrant and better for work within extended colour spaces.

– The Gigabyte has a lower MSRP of $300 USD vs. closer to $400 for the MSI and it also offers the 320Hz Dual Mode functionality. The price to performance ratio of the Gigabyte really is a killer feature and I find it easy to recommend given what’s on offer here.

[user987]

Hi. Thank you for the detailed review. I am thinking of getting this for my PS5 and was set on it. However, I noticed the spec page on the Gigabyte site mentions the following:

HDMI2.1 supports PS5 and Xbox Series X at 4K UHD@120Hz (4:2:0)

https://www.gigabyte.com/Monitor/M27UP/sp#sp

So the monitor does not support the full HDMI 2.1 bandwidth or the PS5 does not?

How much of an effect will this limitation will have on games? Specifically games that run 4k/120 FPS on PS5?

Would appreciate your thoughts on this matter.

Thank You.

[PCM2]

I’m not sure if Gigabyte simply copy + pasted that from the M27U (which had limited bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports). Because the M27UP has full bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports, so I don’t see why they’d have that signal limitation. The PS5 supports 4:2:2 only at most for ‘4K’ UHD on any monitor so the bandwidth is always limited to an extent, but the M27UP should be able to support that rather than being limited to 4:2:0 for bandwidth reasons.

Either way, I wouldn’t worry about it if it does happen to only support a 4:2:0 signal. This is what I said about that in the review of the older M27U:

“The HDMI 2.1 ports of this model offer a bandwidth of 24Gbps with DSC (Display Stream Compression) used to extend its effective bandwidth further. For example, enabling Full Range RGB or ‘4:4:4’ without chroma subsampling at the maximum refresh rate. Unlike many PC GPUs or the Xbox Series X, the PS5 doesn’t support DSC – so it would require a higher uncompressed bandwidth for its maximum supported ‘4:2:2’ signal for ‘4K’ UHD @120Hz. As that isn’t available here, a ‘4:2:0’ reduced chroma signal is instead used for ‘4K’ UHD @120Hz on the PS5. In practice this works very well for ‘4K’ gaming or movie content with minimal visual impact in either SDR or HDR. Many people would struggle to see a difference even with a direct side by side comparison, so it isn’t something we’d worry about.”

[user987]

Thank you so much for the confirming.

[keremm.krhn]

ı am worrying about hdmı 2.1 4.2.0
ı will buy it for my ps5 ı play warzone fortnite etc. ı wanna get 120fps but ı dont know
can ı get 120fps in ps5 with this monitor can you help me

[PCM2]

Yes, the monitor supports 120Hz ‘4K’ UHD for the PS5 for 120fps.

[keremm.krhn]

thank you

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