I’m in the market for a new monitor setup for my Macs. I want one or two “retina” resolution displays and 5k 27” seems to be the best format for that. A nice-to-have would be fast integrated USB hub so I can attach high-performance peripherals like 2.5 Gbps USB-C NICs to the monitor and plug just the monitor cable into my laptop. The ultimate prize is full Thunderbolt support to allow daisy-chaining two monitors.

This is the state of my research as of March ’25. I’m going to ignore the obvious Apple Studio Display. It checks all the boxes including daisy-chaining two displays, but it’s too expensive. The other contenders are:

	Kuycon G27P	Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K	ASUS PA27JCV	BenQ PD2730S	ViewSonic VP2788-5K
Price	$899	$999	$799	$1199	$849
USB Hub	480Mbps	5Gbps	10Gbps	TB4+10Gbps	TB4+USB-C 3.2??
Daisy Chain	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Other					75Hz

I’m not a graphics artist or video editor so I don’t need exacting color accuracy or specific color profiles. I’m (perhaps naively) assuming that all the displays have equivalent image quality for my purposes.

Based on the comparison above I’ll be getting the ViewSonic: The price is right and it has a fast USB hub.