MSI PRO MAX 271UPXW12G Announced with an Updated 27″ 4K QD-OLED Panel and New AGLR Coating

MSI has announced today the launch of their the new PRO MAX series. As they put it, this is “a unified high-end platform shaped by Modernity, Acceleration, and eXperience for the evolving rhythm of everyday work. Guided by a consistent design language of color, hierarchy, and structure, PRO MAX keeps the focus on what matters most—the content itself. Performance is tuned for multitasking, image processing, data-driven workloads, and out of office collaboration, while an intuitive and predictable user experience ensures a smooth and uninterrupted flow across different work environments.”

As part of this, they’ve launched their new PRO MAX 271UPXW12G monitor aimed at professional and office users. It’s a 27″ size QD-OLED screen with a 3840 x 2160 “4K” resolution, a 166 PPI pixel density, and an updated QD-OLED panel and coating to improve usage in brighter room conditions and office environments.

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‘PureBlack’ QD-OLED Panel and AGLR Coating

The 271UPXW12G is “designed for users who value both style and true-to-life visuals.” It features a new ‘PureBlack QD-OLED’ panel (also known as Dark Armor) which helps deliver deeper black and more accurate colours even in standard interior lighting and brighter room conditions. We’ve seen this new panel film / optimization already on MSI’s recently launched MPG 341CQR X36 as well (review and testing of it here).

In addition to this MSI are also adding, for the first time on their QD-OLED monitors, an Anti-Glare Low Reflection (AGLR) surface treatment for reducing glare and reflections, compared with the traditional semi-glossy QD-OLED panel finish. An upgraded 3H panel hardness provides extra scratch resistance too.

We spoke to MSI and Samsung Display about this new panel at CES and they explained that both the PureBlack / Dark Armor Film and this AGLR coating are now panel options form Samsung Display, which MSI have taken for this new screen, as opposed to having to apply anything themselves. So this is an updated version of their 27″ 4K QD-OLED panel (classified as 4th Gen, with EL 3.0 material) from 2025, this time with added Dark Armor Film and AGLR coating.

Design and features

The monitor’s clean white design with sharp lines gives it a modern and refined look. It offers Delta-E ≤ 2 colour accuracy and ‘M-Color Mode’, allowing seamless colour synchronization with PC and MacBook devices and minimizing cross-device differences. Brightness and volume can also be adjusted directly via MacBook shortcut keys, and it is fully compatible with MSI OLED laptops for consistent colour across all devices.

The 26.5″ (27″ class) 3840 x 2160 “4K” resolution display with 166 PPI significantly reduces text fringing, although this remains a 4th Gen QD-OLED panel with the standard triangular sub-pixel layout, as opposed to the new RGB-stripe layout featured on their new 34″ model (review and details here). We’ve seen this panel resolution and pixel density before on models like the MSI MPG 272URX, and the image clarity is excellent. The screen has a 120Hz refresh rate as well, so quite a lot lower than their gaming line-up of QD-OLED monitors.

MSI’s OLED Care 3.0 feature set and AI Care Sensor helps protects the panel from burn-in and automatically saves power when not in use. With a built-in KVM switch function, a single keyboard and mouse can control up to three devices.

More information

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