OLED gaming monitors: Oh yes, or oh no, no, no?

OLED gaming monitors are a rollercoaster ride | Dough Spectrum Black 27 OLED gaming monitor review | Asus ROG Swift PG32UCDM review Created for ignoble.experiment@arconati.us |  Web Version April 28, 2024 CONNECT WITH PC GAMER       SIGN UP ⋅   SHARE First up OLED gaming monitors are a rollercoaster ride (Future) All of my experiences with OLED gaming laptops have been exclusively great. I love an OLED laptop display, whether it's the Blade 13 Stealth my wife uses on a daily basis, or the HP Omen Transcend 14 I had the chance to test not so long back, or the absolute stunner Razer's slapped into its latest Blade 16 I've got in my hands right now. They are resolutely wonderful. Crystal clear images, with perfect contrast, and glorious colours, and with none of the response issues that can sometimes plague a notebook panel that doesn't have any kind of overdrive options.    On the desktop, with big screen monitors, however, it's not been all sunshine and roses in the PC gaming garden. They're a bit dingy, and the first screens have either been whole or chopped up OLED TV panels shaped into a monitor format. So that means either something like a 4K 48-inch big boi, or a 3440 x 1440 45-inch ultrawide, and later 34-inch ultrawides.    The weak full screen brightness and chunky pixel pitch of those screens has not been particularly welcome. Or really delivered on the promise of what OLED as a panel technology can offer PC gamers. High refresh rates and practically instant response rates are great, but if image clarity suffers, what's the real benefit? And why spend $1,000+ on something that's not really there yet?   This was the issue I had recently testing Dough's Spectrum Black 27-incher. Including the stand, the glossy Gorilla glass version is $1,200, and it's not a pleasant monitor to use. Even aside from the standard OLED issues of having to mitigate potential burn-in, with myriad settings to either familiarise yourself with or panic over, the fuzzy fonts of the low pixel density 1440p display are not for me.   But now we finally have the march of the 32-inch 4K panels and they have made a huge difference. OLED is finally here as a genuine premium gaming monitor technology. The latest QD OLED panels are a touch brighter, the pixel density delivers a super crisp, clear image, and a 32-inch 4K display with that level of contrast and HDR performance really singes.   OLED's finally arrived. The Big Story (PC Gamer) Dough Spectrum Black 27 OLED gaming monitor review Dough's glossy 27-incher embodies all the performance and perils of OLED as a gaming monitor technology and fails to make the former count and mitigate the latter. For an ultra-expensive 1440p it cannot justify itself. Read More (PC Gamer) Asus ROG Swift PG32UCDM review This is our first taste of high pixel density OLED gaming on the desktop and it doesn't disappoint. With a 4K native resolution and 240Hz refresh, it's almost everything we want in a high-end, all-purpose panel. It's just a few clicks of full-screen brightness away from perfection. Read More (PC Gamer) Alienware 32 AW3225QF review Our second taste of Samsung's new QD-OLED tech in 4K 32-inch form, this Alienware is an absolute stunner. But it's not cheap and it is a little complicated to live with. Read More (PC Gamer) Gigabyte Aorus F032U2 review This is our third try of a 4K OLED monitor and it's still awesome. Gigabyte's offering is the cheapest yet, but some slight calibration issues prevent it from being the obvious option. Read More Your Say Are you thinking of picking an OLED gaming monitor as your next screen? 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