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Gigabyte MO27Q28G Review (Patreon)

Published:
2025-09-20 11:04:28
Edited:
2025-12-16 12:34:09
Imported:
2026-06

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A full review of the eagerly anticipated Gigabyte MO27Q28G monitor. With a new 27” 4th Gen Primary RGB Tandem WOLED panel, 2560 x 1440 resolution and 280Hz refresh rate. This new screen promises improvements to SDR and HDR brightness, ambient light handling and a range of newly added features from Gigabyte.

https://youtu.be/lcmzxoFkH1I

ICC profile also attached

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Андрей Козлов

Hello! Where can I find the firmware? I received this monitor with F02 firmware, in which some functions are not available, for example, anti-flicker

TFTCentral

Anti-flicker should be in that standard firmware....it was on ours. It's in the same menu as adaptive-sync, options on/off/anti-flicker....the updated FW addresses some issues with HDR performance and brightness in the APL stabilize high modes, and should be available in the near future.

Андрей Козлов

Unfortunately, anti-flicker and Ultra Clear (BFI) are not available. The manufacturer's website, in the section describing Ultra Clear technology, states that this feature requires the latest firmware to work. I reset the monitor to factory settings, but that didn't help. That's why I decided to ask you about it. Thank you for your answers.

TFTCentral

Strange. The new firmware should be available in the coming days anyway which should add those features and improve HDR performance too 👍

Advanced Gaming

I'm a bit confused what to set the peak brightness to in HDR gaming. The monitor does 1500 nits but it only reports 550 nits to windows. 🤔

TFTCentral

I believe the Peak 1500 mode will report that higher figure to windows so you could use that if you need to use NVIDIA RTX HDR or Windows Auto HDR and the other modes are confusing things

Advanced Gaming

Are there any downsides of using the Peak1500 mode compared to the HDR Game mode?

TFTCentral

I’m not entirely sure. When we tested the beta version of the FW Gigabyte had fixed the HDR in the other modes but the peak 1500 hasn’t been updated yet. They were intending to do so, and so I’d hope the final version of the FW included that but we’ve not had chance to verify it yet

Advanced Gaming

Thank you for your answers. I've set up the monitor according to your guide. I noticed I had ACM enabled, but should I turn this off?

Advanced Gaming

Do you happen to know which HDR mode corresponds to true black 500? HDR Game?

Advanced Gaming

Yeah strangely it's not available for me too. Is it displayport exclusive?

TFTCentral

The new F05 firmware should also be available now. You need a usb connection between pc and monitor to update

TFTCentral

The default mode called “HDR” I believe. But any mode where you turn APL stabilize down to medium should produce the same results

Advanced Gaming

Hi, I've noticed that in the OLED care menu the "Static Control" option is grayed out. Do you happen to know what that is?

TFTCentral

just to follow up on this, we've tested the final F05 firmware now and found that the Peak 1500 mode has not yet been updated to improve HDR brightness, and as a result it ends up looking darker than the Game mode (with APL stabilize on high). We've reached out to Gigabyte to check what the plan is with that mode, but for now we'd recommend sticking with the Game mode. If you need to use the Windows HDR calibration tool, follow the visual guidance and ignore the numbers as those are showing the wrong values from the EDID in that mode, but it won't restrict your actual real peak brightness anyway

TFTCentral

yes we've noticed this too. that's a feature which will dim the screen a bit if it's left static for a long time (also known as ABSL on some TV's). It might be that it's only available in certain configurations, we've not experimented with it tbh

Advanced Gaming

Oh no, I am on the F05 firmware version and I noticed that BFI is unavailable even with SDR off and the refresh rate at 120.

Advanced Gaming

Thanks for the follow up! Did you also notice the refresh rate sometimes reverting to 60hz when waking the monitor and pc from sleep?

TFTCentral

not personally, although during our testing we're changing all kinds of settings and different things so it's not something we'd necessarily spot. not seen any other reports of that

Chris James

Hi! Could you post here the best settings for each mode and how do I use the Color Profile you guys have on your site? Thank you!

TFTCentral

Hi Chris. It's probably best to follow our best settings guidance video here: https://youtu.be/ojGYClAHpZE If you're using the ICC profile we've provided then that will apply in SDR mode and should be used alongside the Custom > Native colour space option and the RGB adjustments we discuss in the video

Advanced Gaming

Hi, Gigabyte released a new F06 firmware, if you have the time could you please try again the Peak1500 mode? They optimized the EOTF apparently.

TFTCentral

Hi, yes we received this firmware a few days ago and were told it is designed to fix the Peak 1500 mode, to make it behave the same as the Game mode. We've not had chance to test it yet, but will try to soon. They're still investigating our feedback around black crush and loss of shadow detail in certain SDR modes too

kanade_

Thank you for providing ICC profile and recommended settings. I'll be using this screen predominantly in a dark environment. Is the brightness at 31 still necessary? Or is there lower value that I could set to?

TFTCentral

you can set brightness in SDR to whatever you find comfortable and appropriate for your viewing environment and preferences. It won't impact any other aspect of the calibration/setup :)

William

Is turning gamma to off on native to help with black crush an alright thing to do?

TFTCentral

Does it help? If so then it could be ok, if it doesn’t make the image look bad in any other ways. Not something we’ve experimented with tbh

William

I think it does help. I have gamma off with black equalizer on 11 at the moment. Not an expert in this but I play games with alot of dark areas and noticed its near impossible to see, so I have been looking into it. Any opinion on this would be appreciated thanks.

Andrei Răducanu

I tried anything i could (including the TFT icc profile) and i can't get rid of white crush. Can anyone, with any settings, see all the squares in this test, starting from 0, which I can see on an ancient IPS Dell monitor: https://testufo.com/whitelevels

TFTCentral

What configuration are you using at the moment? Have you got windows HDR enabled or disabled? What APL stabilize setting are you using? Have you used the recommended settings from our best settings video guide? And does this test look the same on different browsers? I’m always a bit cautious about browser / web based tests for evaluating things like this as there’s a load of different variables that could be impacting the results I suppose most importantly, do you see any issues with this in your actual real world content and usage?

Andrei Răducanu

Thanks for answering. I have HDR disabled (tried with it enabled, improves things, but not by much). I use Low APL stabilize (the other make it worse). Yes, I have used the setting from your video. I am now using your icc profile and the settings that are recommended with it. Unfortunately this also causes black crush. Things are better with black crush if i switch to sRGB mode, but white crush remains the same. I made a short showcasing the issue: https://youtube.com/shorts/cfY_BUxDjqs I do see issues in real world usage, because I use it to edit drawings, here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CF74jsxFedI Thanks again for the feedback! PS: it's not about the browser, these differences show also in windows picture viewer, Photoshop and so on

Peter Molnar

where is the icc profile? i have a membership and i can't see icc profile for this monitor

rev

Hey, I'm trying to download the ICC profile for this, but whenever I login with Patreon on the website, the entire website breaks and every page (even non-database) will give WordPress Error 500 - You do not have permission to preview snippets. This stays until I manually clear cookies. I tried different browsers and devices, same issue.

TFTCentral

That's really odd, we've not had any other users report this issue. But to get around it, I've attached the ICC profile to this post as well for you :)

Nil

In the video, a brightness level of 29 is mentioned, while the database lists 31 for 120 nits. Which value is correct?

TFTCentral

go with 29 for closest match to 120 nits if that's your target, but you can really set brightness at whatever you find comfortable for your viewing conditions

rev

Thanks so much! I applied the ICC and copied the OSD settings from the video, though my results seem very different from those seen in the video. Gradients and glows have quite terrible banding no matter what. And the Black level test on Lagom in full-screen, with the exact same settings, square 1 - 8 are all crushed to pure black on Black Equalizer 10. On black equalizer 12 I can make out changes from 4 but no matter what I put my Black Equalizer to 1-3 are all pure black. In HDR, most of these things are resolved but in SDR some dark soft blurry gradient blobs on websites look like a bunch of different sharp shapes behind one another. Could this be a bad panel? Or something to do with Windows?

TFTCentral

In the more recent firmwares, black crush is more of an issue in SDR > wide gamut mode sadly. Gigabyte are looking in to this, but it's changed since our original testing. Applying the ICC profile should help a bit though between active/inactive? I would say though that it's worth seeing if this is a problem in real-world usage, don't just worry about lagom tests. If you find it an issue, switching to the sRGB or DCI-P3 emulation modes improves it a lot - it's just the wide native gamut mode that seems to be a problem. Tweaking Black Equalizer also helps as you've seen.

rev

I see, glad GBT are looking into this. During gaming or movies it's not a problem and the display looks quite nice. Though it makes certain websites or applications that make use of soft dark gradients/glows look terrible. While I usually disable it anyway, an easy example is YouTube Ambient Mode where the little glow it puts behind the player gets crushed quite badly. Another one is the Windows 11 Shadow behind applications, this gets crushed to 2 shades of gray and looks real bad. Will try the emulation modes until hopefully GBT pushes a fix for this thanks.

Marlus

Hey, is the the ICC profile at our site for SDR only or could also be used for HDR profile? If I install monitor driver from gigabyte, there is also an ICC file included. Should I use this one? Thanks!

TFTCentral

It’s not possible to calibrate HDR mode in the same way unfortunately so the calibrated profile is only for SDR. Not sure what the manuf profiles are designed to do tbh, not very much would be my guess

AAA AAA!

most recent firmware is f06, so using your icc profile + your setting from the video + f05 firmware should be fine? or f05 is also broken?

TFTCentral

Yes the profile and settings are still relevant for F06, nothing has changed in it that would impact those 👍

Marlus

Using this OLED now for 1 week. I thought one advantage of that of monitor is the great blacks. However, I recognize a lot of problems in darker games (e.g. tainted grail) where I see a lot of big color blocksin darker environmen t rather a smooth color gradient. It is really disturbing the game feeling. Some report this problem related to low source content (e.g. youtube), but I see less information from people having this issue in games. If I reduce color scale from 10 to 8 bpc it is getting better. But result would be less color in SDR content? Do you have any experience or tips for me? Is it normal? Any way to reduce this effect?

TFTCentral

I think you're describing the "black crush" and some loss of shadow detail which impacts some modes at the moment (Gigabyte investigating). You can improve things quite a bit in SDR mode by using either the sRGB or DCI-P3 emulation modes, depending on your preferences around colour saturation/vividness. Both offer better shadow detail than the native mode at the moment. You can also make some further tweaks using the Shadow Detail control which helps quite nicely too on this screen.

TFTCentral

Oh I see. Some bad banding in the games. Could be a range of things but it probably recommend resetting the screen to factory defaults, and same with graphics card drivers and settings. Hard to know what is to blame there

Nil

I have a quick question regarding gray banding on this 4th Gen W-OLED monitors. Is gray banding considered a major issue in practice, or is it something that most OLED panels are affected by to some extent due to the technology itself? Additionally, are there any recommended measures to reduce or mitigate gray banding (e.g. panel refresh, break-in period, settings), or is it largely panel-dependent? Thank you in advance for your clarification. Best regards

rev

Small question, I see a lot of conflicting information about this, should I enable 10bit color in NVIDIA App for this Monitor or keep it at 8bit?

TFTCentral

sorry for the slow reply over the Christmas period. The banding issue varies from sample to sample and it seems to perhaps be a bit more pronounced/common on the latest 4th Gen WOLED panels. Panel refreshes can help a bit, but won't eliminate it fully in some cases. It's not likely to be noticeable in a lot of content, but any darker games, or on some app dark themes (e.g. Chrome) may show it more

Nil

Hi, here are three photos of my Gigabyte display showing grayscale content. Based on what you can see, would you consider this more of a good panel or a bad one? I’m especially interested in your opinion regarding uniformity and panel variance. Thanks in advance. https://imgur.com/a/Lrz8i5K chatgpt told me its a good one :D

TFTCentral

It looks quite bad for the darkest grey test but pretty good with the lighter two shades. with these things my recommendation would always be to consider what it’s like in real usage. If you go looking for defects with unrealistic test scenarios you can often uncover oddities, but how do you find it in your actual usage?

Nil

here’s a quick update after around 144 hours of runtime and several pixel cleaning cycles. Of course, if you actively look for flaws, you will always find something — but I mainly wanted to show the difference that some runtime, pixel cleaning, and your recommended settings can make. I’d say there is a noticeable improvement compared to before. https://imgur.com/a/orNkhRk / rtings 5% picture https://imgur.com/a/xbQBk8H

jansae

Do you have any info why the monitor is not reporting HDR information correctly to Windows 11? it just shows HDR Certification: Not found. Noticed as well with Firmware F06 Oled Care -> Static Control is greyed out, do you happen to have any info if Gigabyte is aware of this? I assume it's bug with firmware.

TFTCentral

The HDR certification may only show in certain modes but I haven’t really looked in to it. I don’t put much stock in the strange behaviour of windows with HDR. it won’t matter in any real HDR content and usage anyway I’m sure Not sure why that OLED care setting has been greyed out, I think they changed that a while back but not sure why

secretsecret (edited)

Comment edits

2026-09-18 13:00 Hey, do you think that the Mo27q28g will get a firmware update that adds the hypernits Feature from the Mo27q28gr when it is released? Also do you think that the newer GR model will have other improvements despite being the same panel with different coating? I am still in the return window of my mo27q28g, and I fear that the GR model could be the better choice because of possible updates and the hypernits feature. (Btw is the hypernits feature just extra tonemapping?)
2026-01-12 18:17

TFTCentral

Yes the HyperNits feature is just a tweaked HDR mode for enhancing brightness. We’ve not had chance to test this yet beyond just the demos at CES which looked decent. Gigabyte told us it should be rolled out to some other recent screens via a FW update at some point and I’d sad the original model is a dead cert given it’s the same software as the R model. I’m not expecting any other differences between the matte and glossy versions beyond the costing and associated visual differences really, other than that added new HDR feature for now

tanvir Mahi

Hey, I just bought that (Gigabyte MO27Q28G) monitor about 1 month ago. This is the first OLED monitor in my life. I don't know anything about OLED monitors, but I bought that one. But the thing is, everyone said OLEDs give really crisp details and good color, but in my view, I don't see that much difference. The overall image quality and clarity are decreased in my point of view, and I know that matte coating is the main culprit behind this problem, but what I have thought and what I have seen so far is that yes, it's true that matte coating doesn't give good picture quality; it makes overall image quality hazy, blurry, and grainy, but not really bad like mine. In my view, YouTube videos look bad. I also don't know anything about monitor calibration and settings, so I just watched a video of TFT Central on YouTube about this monitor's settings. I do everything that he does, but I don't get satisfied results, and he has some paid settings, so I just subscribed today and came here to you guys. Is there any fix or nothing? and how to use the ICC profile that is attached in the attachment section?

TFTCentral

Welcome. I expect the clarity problems you refer to are probably more down to the unusual sub pixel layout of these kind of panels rather than the screen coating. That can cause some fringing issues with text, although in dynamic content like games (apart from UI elements etc) it shouldn’t really be noticeable. Maybe you’ll need a little time to get used to it. In terms of picture quality, I’m not sure what screen you had before but you should notice impressive black depth, contrast, vivid colours, great motion clarity etc. that’s where OLED is especially strong. The icc profile can be loaded in windows display settings but you’ll need to google for your ver of windows for instructions on how to activate it Hope that helps

tanvir Mahi

I used a 1080p VA panel monitor before the OLED one. I said the overall image, like a video on YouTube, looks really bad on my OLED monitor. It looks less sharp and more blurry and grainy; I feel like my monitor turned on the grain filter or something. Also, I don't update the firmware. I am using the version F02. If I update to the latest one, can I get rid of this problem, or is it just a hardware problem that I am facing? Does the ICC profile make my monitor good, or does it just make the color good? What's it going to do? Why do I need the ICC profile? I mean, what is the importance of the ICC profile? And I am a brand designer, and I play games in my free time. Do I need the ICC profile? And I am using Windows 11. What are the proper steps of using the ICC profile?

TFTCentral

I would certainly update the firmware to the latest version anyway, and then perhaps do a screen reset afterwards to start from fresh settings. Make sure you've set your graphics card output to 2560 x 1440 and 280Hz, not the 1080p that was set for your old monitor. You will notice some text clarity issues and perhaps some minor coating grain on the OLED but in videos it shouldn't be very obvious at all, unless something else is wrong somewhere. That's tricky for us to trouble shoot though. An ICC profile provides colour and gamma corrections, and its primary benefit here would be to clamp the full native colour space of the panel back to the more commonly used sRGB colour space in certain applications. It might be worth having a read online about ICC profiles and how to activate them in Windows for more information on whether you'd want to use it or not.

tanvir Mahi

I am facing an issue with the Gigabyte MO27Q28G WOLED monitor on Windows, and whenever I work in Adobe Illustrator, a strange, 1-pixel-wide colored outline, like a fake red or cyan or black or white stroke, appears around my vector objects. There is no actual stroke applied to the shapes in my file, and the artwork looks completely clean when exported or viewed on standard IPS displays or phones. I do professional brand design work; these distracting fake borders make it very difficult to judge my edges accurately. Has anyone found a solid workaround, third-party software fix, or specific setting tweak to get perfectly sharp, clean vector edges on this monitor screen?

TFTCentral

This could be fringing related due to the non standard sub pixel layout (RGWB) and inclusion of the white sub pixel. Do you see the same in other apps on this same screen? If so, that’s what it will be I expect