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 $2,300 in the USA. At present, the only rival for the Agon AG353UCG is the Acer Predator X35, so the rather high price tag is nothing to be surprised about.
| AOC's 35-Inch 3rd Gen Agon Gaming Display | |
| Agon AG353UCG | |
| Panel | 35-inch VA |
| Native Resolution | 3440 × 1440 |
| Maximum Refresh Rate | 200 Hz |
| Response Time | 2 ms GtG |
| Brightness | up to 1000 cd/m² in HDR mode |
| Contrast | up to 2500:1 |
| Backlighting | FALD with 512 zones & Quantum Dots |
| Viewing Angles | 178°/178° horizontal/vertical |
| Curvature | 1800R |
| Aspect Ratio | 21:9 |
| Color Gamut | sRGB: ?% DCI-P3: 90% Adobe RGB: 95% |
| Dynamic Refresh Rate Tech | NVIDIA G-Sync Ultimate |
| Pixel Pitch | 0.2554 mm² |
| Pixel Density | 99.45 PPI |
| Inputs | 1 × DisplayPort 1.4 1 × Mini DisplayPort 1.4 1 × HDMI 2.0b |
| Audio | 3.5 mm microphone upstream 3.5 mm microphone downstream 3.5 mm headphone out 2 x 8 W speakers |
| USB Hub | 4 × USB 3.0 Type-A connectors |
| Ethernet | - |
| Webcam | - |
| Stand | Height: 120 mm Swivel: 32° ~ 32° Tilt: -5 ~ 21.5±1.5° |
| Launch Price | RRP in the UK: £2,159 MSRP in EU: €2,509 |
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SSTANIC - Saturday, February 22, 2020 - link
maybe you are well informed, but in case you aren't, find that 2020 LG 48 CX, or 2019 LG C9 models' description and how and why it is great as a top gaming monitor. and you will find out why so many people eagerly await its arrival, along with HDMI 2.1 equipped videocards this year. me included. that is why these 2500$ monitors are a bit dead on arrival, however great they may be.edzieba - Monday, February 24, 2020 - link
Every year a certain TV model will be hailed as "THIS time this TV will be totally awesome as a monitor and better than all those monitors that are totally overpriced!". Every year it turns out to, in reality, be a TV and do TV things like all the other TVs before it and make for a pretty lousy experience as a monitor. But the NEXT generation surely...looper - Monday, June 8, 2020 - link
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Sivar - Friday, February 21, 2020 - link
I don't know about that pricing for a monitor with a vanilla 1000 cd/m² brightness, an unspecified static contrast ratio, a lukewarm dynamic contrast ratio ("up to..."), and less than 4K resolution.Perhaps this isn't market to me, but I don't see the high refresh rate and full G-Sync support as a great enough value. Perhaps at half the price.
Dug - Friday, February 21, 2020 - link
Vanilla 1000 cd/m2? How many monitors have this?And no, it isn't in your market as this is a gaming monitor. There are no 4k ultrawides (which aren't really 4k), in a 34" size with the specs you mention. There's an LG but doesn't come close to 1000 cd/m2, or refresh rate over 60hz, or low response time, or high contrast ratio.
Not to mention we don't have a video card capable of driving that resolution at high frame rates for games anyway.
p1esk - Friday, February 21, 2020 - link
But technically you can buy that LG 48 TV when it's released, and use it in ultrawide mode (with black bars) - I bet the visual quality will be much higher. The only thing this one has going for it is 200Hz frame rate, which is probably not very relevant for gaming anyway, and even when you can output at this rate it will probably not enough of an improvement over 120Hz to justify the price.Kvaern1 - Saturday, February 22, 2020 - link
High refreshrate is totally relevant for gaming, and not much else.p1esk - Saturday, February 22, 2020 - link
Are you personally suffering when you're unable to play latest games at 200Hz? 120Hz is just not doing it for you, right? That insanely OC'ed quad 2080Ti rig you have is not getting its money worth... Yeah, I feel you.Kvaern1 - Sunday, February 23, 2020 - link
I'm not personally a high refreshrate gamer and you're apparently an idiot who's incapable of admitting wrong and learning something new.Fact remains high refresh monitors are completely relevant for gaming.