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It’s easy to get spoiled by high-end gaming displays, especially with OLEDs becoming more common. However, though that technology delivers incredible imagery and performance, it will still cost you the price of two gaming consoles to put a 27-inch QHD OLED on your desktop. There are plenty of less expensive alternatives, though, and at the bottom of the price scale is Titan Army’s P27A2R. It isn’t at the bottom of the performance scale and it definitely delivers a lot for the money.
With 180 Hz, flawless Adaptive-Sync and a precisely tuned overdrive, the P27A2R showed me superb gameplay. There was no visible motion blur at 180fps, and input lag proved to be perceptually nonexistent. In that regard, it is nearly equal to an OLED, for a quarter the price.
The image has no real flaws either when compared to other IPS screens. Contrast is around 1,200:1 – above the industry average. Color accuracy is there right out of the box. The P27A2R has no visible grayscale, gamma or color errors. And it covers almost 92% of DCI-P3 which is also above average for wide gamut displays. The only bummer is that there’s no HDR.
If you really need USB ports or internal speakers, the P27A2R doesn’t have them. And the OSD’s joystick navigation is needlessly fiddly. But these things don’t diminish the gaming experience. Everything you need for satisfying play, or any other task, is there. In the budget monitor realm, Titan Army is making a superb effort. If you need a high-performing gaming display and you’re down to the last $200 of your budget, be sure to put it on your shortlist.
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