£250 4K IPS GAMING MONITOR! – AOC U28G2AE Review

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Back in September 2019 AOC launched their insanely popular 24G2U monitor, making 1080p 144Hz IPS monitors not only available at all, but both high quality and an insanely good value. Jump forward to October 2020 and it seems like they want to do the same thing to the 4K market. That’s where this, the U28G2AE, comes in. This is a 4K, 60Hz, IPS monitor with adaptive sync that can be found for just £250. But, is it actually any good? Let’s find out.

That price tag makes it one of the cheapest 4K monitors on the market, but it does have strong competition from the likes of LG with their 27UL600, this one better be good. Luckily, AOC have clearly put some thought into what makes a monitor good for gamers, as the on screen menu not only has dedicated ‘gamer’ profiles, but more importantly offers a “low input lag” mode, and three levels of overdrive to speed up the panel’s response time.

And it works! Without overdrive enabled, the panel is a little slow to respond clocking in at around 7ms going from black to white. With it on its highest setting, “Strong”, it dropped to around 5ms. It’s definitely slower to get back to a darker shade, as overdrive can’t really help improve that transition much, I clocked it at just over 1 frame worth, or 17ms.

Now it does have a bit of ghosting, with overdrive off even at 60Hz it’s still got an extra frame and a half – or about 23ms – of the UFO still being visible after the next frame starts drawing. With overdrive on it is faster to show the next frame, but when it’s changing colour back to the background blue especially on the lighter shades it leaves a literal white ghost. You can see it more clearly in this clip, running 3840 pixels per second instead of the usual 960, you can see it’s overshot the blue of the alien’s top and is displaying it green in the ghosted image. This is less prevalent in the ‘medium’ setting, so that’s where I’d put it personally.

As for the low input lag mode, that works well too. My time sleuth reported just 1.9ms of latency at the top of the display, which while not the absolute best I’ve seen, it’s far from the worst. Interestingly though, using NVIDIA’s LDAT tool to capture the total system or click to photon latency in CSGO it was remarkably slow. The best average I could clock was 71ms, even with CSGO running at 400FPS on a 1080Ti. That’s really slow, but I’m inclined to believe that’s something to do with the system rather than the monitor due to the low time sleuth results.

Either way, the gaming experience on this is pretty good. I’m not sure that this is the type of monitor you would choose to play fast paced FPS games on, I feel like it’d be better for RPGs where immediate reaction times and fast motion aren’t the core requirements. Despite that, I still had a pretty good time playing on it, the refresh rate was definitely my limitation more than the speed of the panel, but for the right time of game – especially PS5 and Xbox Series X players – I think you’d still get along with this well.

Speaking of the consoles, I imagine this would be quite a good choice for them. It’s got 2 HDMI ports and one DisplayPort so you could hook up both consoles and a PC and play whatever, wherever.

If content consumption is on the cards too, as I expect it would be, this is decent for that as well. It offers a peak brightness of 300 nits, not enough to even meet VESA’s lowest HDR400 standard, but bright enough for any condition I could throw at it save for direct sunlight. The colours look good to the eye, offering around 100% coverage of the sRGB spectrum, 81% AdobeRGB and 84% DCI P3, meaning if you do want to do some video or photo editing, or some games development or 3D modelling this isn’t a bad shout.

Plus, the added crispness you get from a 4K panel that is this small does add just a touch extra quality to the viewing experience. Personally I feel like this is a little too small to be something I’d want to use on a daily basis, for me 1440p offers enough pixels per inch for me to not even consider they are there, but without scaling 4K at this size is too small for me to see, and with scaling I just don’t see enough of a benefit.

Putting that aside, for just £250, this is a phenomenal monitor. Sure the panel is a touch on the slow side, but I can’t say I really noticed it in games too heavily unless I was really hunting for it. At that price tag, I’d be pretty happy to recommend it if you are after a sub-30” 4K60 monitor for gaming. If you swing more content consumption or creation the LG options might be a touch better, but for gaming this is great. There is one catch though, which is that pricing on this seems to be rather inconsistent. At PCWorld it’s £250, but at box it’s £280, and on Amazon it’s over £300. For that kind of money, the LG options could be more appealing even for gaming so make sure you shop around for the best price if you want one of these.