This gaming monitor, the Acer Nitro XV275K (P3biipruzx), is what you would expect to be a dream come true—it costs $549.99 at Best Buy. Rich colors, remarkable brightness levels, and impressive speed for a 4K display are all made possible by its mini-LED lighting. However, despite all of its potential and impressive benchmarks, it is unusable in real-world scenarios. This $800 monitor is not worth the $550 that it goes on sale for; it performs worse than many $400 options when it comes to gaming, watching TV, and just browsing the web. It also doesn’t compare well with the Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM and LG UltraGear OLED 27GR95QE-B.
A 27-inch panel with nearly 8 million pixels packed in it has a high pixel density (163.18 per inch) that is conducive to sharp detail. This is a feature shared by all 4K monitors of this size, but it does make rich textures in games and patterns on textiles look more realistic on the Acer Nitro XV275K (P3biipruzx). Catching a jagged edge without getting quite near to the display is far more difficult. At this size, I find 1440p to be more than sufficient most of the time, but 4K just offers that much more to enjoy for true detail aficionados (provided you have a GPU that can support it). This clarity is combined with a quick pixel response time on the Acer Nitro XV275K to shield those crisp edges from ghosting’s softening effects. The screen’s rapidly moving elements don’t have lengthy blur trails trailing behind them. Nevertheless, there are a few problems with quick movements that we’ll discuss later.

The Acer Nitro XV275K’s greatest facts

The vivid colors and brightness of the Acer Nitro XV275K

With an HDR brightness of up to 956 nits, an anti-glare coating on the display, and an SDR brightness level of 359.4 nits, the Acer Nitro XV275K (P3biipruzx) won’t leave you having trouble seeing what’s on screen. Even with the brightness set much below the maximum, I hardly ever detect glare or reflections from the room’s illumination. That held whether I was playing games, watching videos, or surfing the internet. This display might be ideal if all you’re looking for is something that can withstand being in a room with plenty of windows and sunlight.
The Acer Nitro XV275K’s brightness further adds to its brilliant color. It has a vast color spectrum to deal with, spanning nearly the entire DCI-P3 gamut, and those colors look amazing when the brilliant backlights shine through them. This works great for HDR video, bright games like Fortnite or Overwatch 2, and even more basic things like spreadsheets (more on this later). Due to uniformity problems, it might not be quite realistic, but that doesn’t make the color any less striking.

The Acer Nitro XV275k’s drawbacks

A close-up of the settings menu is visible in the right corner of the Acer Nitro XV275K (P3biipruzx). This clarity is combined with a quick pixel response time on the Acer Nitro XV275K to shield those crisp edges from ghosting’s softening effects. You must activate full-array local dimming (FALD), which dims or brightens the mini-LEDs to produce bright and darker regions if you want to get the most out of the Acer Nitro XV275K (P3biipruzx). The contrast would be appalling without it—430:1 for SDR content and only roughly 760:1 for HDR content. For this reason, FALD plays a critical role in enhancing perceived contrast and producing the sharp highlights that HDR is known for. However, it may include some unsightly artifacts.
One backlight zone may display both highly bright and dark material simultaneously since each backlight covers a somewhat sizable portion of the screen (576 zones over a 27-inch panel equals 0.54-square-inch zones, each containing approximately 14,000 pixels). Changes in brightness and color may be extremely evident if that content changes.

The Acer Nitro XV275K may have trouble contrasting delicate details

On paper, the Acer Nitro XV275K (P3biipruzx) achieves some amazing contrast results thanks to local dimming, although this is mostly achieved when the display shows a wide enough black zone to cause all surrounding backlights to switch off or the opposite. The contrast can be weak when it comes to tiny elements, such as tiny icons or black writing on a white background.
While it is true that minute details are sharper with 4K, writing in particular has an abnormally low level of clarity. Black text appears more grayscale. When displaying the fine details of vivid objects, such as bird feathers, the monitor works significantly better because it is not dependent on tiny black lines.

The Acer Nitro XV275K The $800 monitor shouldn’t have controls on it

Remote controllers are included with some displays. Some have joysticks attached so you can easily navigate the menus. A lot of less expensive monitors only include a row of buttons that are frequently positioned in awkward places. What did the P3biipruzx/Acer Nitro XV275K get? That third choice.
This is essentially the worst method for navigating the settings menus on a monitor. It’s challenging to confirm that the button I’m pushing genuinely corresponds with the menu item I want to choose. The power button that ends the row of buttons is far too simple to mistakenly hit. Holding down the buttons causes the adjustment sliders to move at a rate of approximately one increment per second. Repeated clicks go unnoticed. Thus, be prepared to wait a whole minute to get from the lowest brightness to the highest brightness.

The Acer Nitro XV275K (P3biipruzx): is it a good purchase?

Although the Acer Nitro XV275K (P3biipruzx) has a few commendable features, they are so completely obscured by visual filth that I strongly advise against buying this monitor right away. Because of their more reliable visual performance, I would still suggest the 4K Gigabyte M27U or the M27Q X even if they were half as expensive.
Although some of the top TVs include mini-LED technology, this monitor only manages to increase the maximum brightness levels without producing a very good picture. And color won’t be able to save it from that. The 4K brother of the Cooler Master Tempest GP27Q that we lauded in our review, the surprisingly similarly priced Cooler Master Tempest GP27U, employs the same panel with mini-LED FALD and provides an overall far superior experience.