AOC Launches Their Flagship G-Sync Ultimate Gaming Monitor: The Ultrawide 35-Inch Agon AG353UCG
by Anton Shilov on February 21, 2020 4:00 PM EST- Posted in
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AOC has formally unveiled its long-awaited Agon AG353UCG curved gaming display. The high-end display offers a 200 Hz maximum refresh rate with VESA Adaptive-Sync VRR technology, a 1000 nits peak brightness, as well as a Quantum Dot-enhanced full areal local dimming (FALD) backlighting. The display will be the company’s new flagship curved offering, offering a plethora of features with a hefty price tag to match.
AOC says that when it designed its Agon AG353UCG monitor (and other forthcoming members of the 3rd Generation Agon family), it wanted to build a product that would offer the most immersion possible today with an LCD. To do so, the company took a 35-inch 10-bit VA panel featuring a 1800R curvature, a 3440x1440 resolution, a 2 ms GtG response time, a 200 Hz maximum refresh rate, and equipped it with an advanced FALD backlighting. All told, the AG353UCG's backlighting system contains 512 local dimming zones, which have been further enhanced with Quantum Dots for a wider color gamut, offering a very bright and high-contrast HDR experience. As a result, AG353UCG can claim DisplayHDR 1000 compliance – indicating, among other things, a peak brightness of 1000 nits in HDR mode – while being able to display 1.07 billion colors across 90% of the DCI-P3 color gamut.
Like many other flagship HDR gaming displays, the Agon AG353UCG is a G-Sync Ultimate monitor. This means it meets NVIDIA's specifications for response times, color spaces, and backlighting. And it also means that the monitor is almost certainly using NVIDIA's G-Sync HDR scaler as well.
On the connectivity side of matters, the monitor has a DisplayPort 1.4 input, an HDMI 2.0b port, and a Mini DisplayPort input. In addition, the unit has audio connectors (line out, microphone upstream, microphone downstream), and a quad-port USB 3.0 hub with a Type-B upstream port.
For gamers who find ergonomics and looks to be as important as performance, the monitor comes with an aggressive-looking stand that can adjust height and tilt, as well as sporting an RGB LED ring on the back. Meanwhile the sizable display offers a carrying handle and supports cable management, making it a bit easier to move and setup the monitor.
The AOC Agon AG353UCG will be available in Europe this month. In the UK, its RRP will be £2,159, while in mainland Europe it will cost €2,509. So expect it to carry an MSRP of around $2,300 in the USA. At present, the only rival for the Agon AG353UCG is the Acer Predator X35, so the rather high price tag is nothing to be surprised about.
| AOC's 35-Inch 3rd Gen Agon Gaming Display | |
| Agon AG353UCG | |
| Panel | 35-inch VA |
| Native Resolution | 3440 × 1440 |
| Maximum Refresh Rate | 200 Hz |
| Response Time | 2 ms GtG |
| Brightness | up to 1000 cd/m² in HDR mode |
| Contrast | up to 2500:1 |
| Backlighting | FALD with 512 zones & Quantum Dots |
| Viewing Angles | 178°/178° horizontal/vertical |
| Curvature | 1800R |
| Aspect Ratio | 21:9 |
| Color Gamut | sRGB: ?% DCI-P3: 90% Adobe RGB: 95% |
| Dynamic Refresh Rate Tech | NVIDIA G-Sync Ultimate |
| Pixel Pitch | 0.2554 mm² |
| Pixel Density | 99.45 PPI |
| Inputs | 1 × DisplayPort 1.4 1 × Mini DisplayPort 1.4 1 × HDMI 2.0b |
| Audio | 3.5 mm microphone upstream 3.5 mm microphone downstream 3.5 mm headphone out 2 x 8 W speakers |
| USB Hub | 4 × USB 3.0 Type-A connectors |
| Ethernet | - |
| Webcam | - |
| Stand | Height: 120 mm Swivel: 32° ~ 32° Tilt: -5 ~ 21.5±1.5° |
| Launch Price | RRP in the UK: £2,159 MSRP in EU: €2,509 |
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Beaver M. - Sunday, February 23, 2020 - link
What kind of weird analogies are you using???A helicopter blade (on faster spinning rotors) equals to about 8 fps. The reason they are blurry is the speed they are moving, which is normally around 210 m/s. That is very fast and movement like that will always be blurry. Yet you still see every blade only 8 times a second on the same spot.
Walkeer - Saturday, February 22, 2020 - link
so, you are telling me I cannot see difference between 60hz and 144Hz? are you blind or what?boeush - Saturday, February 22, 2020 - link
Yes, I'm telling you exactly that. Whatever difference you thought you were seeing, was nothing more than a type of placebo effect.surt - Saturday, February 22, 2020 - link
You are completely wrong on this. You should read up more on the topic.Beaver M. - Sunday, February 23, 2020 - link
Right. A placebo effect is that I can suddenly read moving text at 144Hz, and cant at 60 Hz.Dude... Your imaginations have been wtfpwned when that word was still relevant.
12345 - Saturday, February 22, 2020 - link
Check out hardwareunboxed's reviews of the pg35vq and predator x35. They both use the same panel.Ninjawithagun - Friday, February 21, 2020 - link
Too expensive. Reduce it to $1999 and we might actually be tempted to buy it. Lottery winners can disregard this recommendation 😉Cellar Door - Saturday, February 22, 2020 - link
Even at 2K USD, this is way too much. AOC will have stiff competition.Dizoja86 - Friday, February 21, 2020 - link
This is honestly exactly the monitor I've been looking for. Unfortunately, it's also a solid four times more than the price I can afford.Guspaz - Saturday, February 22, 2020 - link
Why a VA panel? It doesn't make any sense. The only advantages that VA panels have over IPS is in their contrast ratio and backlight uniformity. They tend to be around 3000:1 (as opposed to IPS at 1000:1), and don't suffer from "IPS glow".Except, as soon as you've got FALD, the contrast ratio is now primarily based on the local dimming performance, and IPS glow isn't an issue when you're controlling the backlight intensity.
So if FALD is already taking care of IPS's shortcomings, why VA, where you're going to get worse viewing angles and pixel response times?