ViewSonic has briefly teased the XG2737 in the past, but now the company has fully unveiled its latest gaming monitor. The screen doesn’t make any compromises with an extremely high refresh rate of 520 Hz, but the 27-inch panel only offers Full-HD resolution.
This means that images won’t look particularly sharp, which probably makes this monitor less versatile compared to a QHD monitor. Such QHD monitors with a higher resolution and pretty fast refresh rate are widely available on Amazon, and various manufacturers are selling these displays at quite affordable prices.
That said, the ViewSonic XG2737 features an IPS panel with a gray-to-gray response time of 1 millisecond. The gaming monitor supports native 6-bit + FRC color and covers 99% of the sRGB color space. ViewSonic further specifies a contrast ratio of 1,000:1 and typical brightness of 400 nits.
The additional features of this new monitor are adequate, but not particularly impressive. For example, the XG2737 has a USB hub with two USB Type-A ports, but gamers will have to live without a KVM switch. Two 2-watt speakers are built-in, a 3.5mm headphone jack is available as an alternative.
The ViewSonic gaming monitor sports a stand whose height, tilt and rotation can be adjusted. Third-party stands can be used thanks to VESA (100 x 100mm) compatibility. Last but not least, there are two HDMI 2.1 ports and one DisplayPort, and the XG2737 supports AMD’s FreeSync Premium to synchronize FPS with the monitor’s refresh rate. The ViewSonic XG2737 is not available for purchase at the time of writing.
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