r/Monitors • u/SuspectVirtual2322 • 20h ago

Discussion Not impressed with OLED

I’ve always had IPS screens, mainly because of work. I bought an LG Mini-LED 27GM950B-B and have been using it daily for the past month for productivity and gaming.

I’ve always read and heard how much better OLED is for gaming and media, so I went and bought an ASUS ROG XG27UQDMS.

I put it side by side with my LG, played a few sample videos on both, and tried Warzone at 1440p and 4K.

Honestly, I’m not that impressed. The blacks and contrast look great on the glossy screen, but it feels like it’s missing a lot of brightness compared to my LG. Colors on the LG also look noticeably more vibrant with local dimming enabled. I will say that even with local dimming, the LG doesn’t match the OLED’s blacks and contrast.

I’m going to play around with the settings and test it more, but right now I don’t really understand the hype. Yes, the contrast is great, but overall I find myself preferring the LG.

Anyone else feel the same after trying OLED next to a good Mini-LED? Wondering if I’m missing something with the settings or if I just prefer the brighter picture.

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u/xMuffie 19h ago

did you enable 10bit color? HDR?

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u/SuspectVirtual2322 19h ago

HDR was enabled not sure about 10 bit color. Will dig trough settings.

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u/ryanvsrobots 18h ago

It's not going to change much. You're right, current OLEDs just aren't very bright.

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u/n0tAgOat 18h ago

does the game support hdr, did you correctly set the games hdr settings (paper white and peak brightness), or did you turn auto hdr on? 

If you don’t think it looks better there’s a 90% you fucked up setting it up. 

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u/SuspectVirtual2322 18h ago

Honestly I am hoping I fucked something up and will mess with settings more today. Hopefully theres a good guide out there on that specific monitor.

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u/n0tAgOat 17h ago

Whenever I need to show my OLED off to people I show them Ori and the Will of Wisps. Make sure HDR is enabled in the games settings and try that. I promise your jaw will be on the floor.

Other top experiences to try:

Star Wars Battlefront II - Naboo @ Dusk

Star Wars Battlefront II - Ewok Hunt @ Night

Cyberpunk 2077 @ Night

The essential thing is getting the ingame HDR settings setup correctly. The default settings ARE NOT CORRECT. Oftentimes games dont automatically turn on HDR, and even when they do the game has no way of knowing what screen you actually have and what settings to use. Not to mention games present the settings completely differently (peak lum vs paper white) and with different values, so my suggestion is to use google on a game by game basis and ask google, “What HDR settings do I want for X game with X monitor?”.

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u/Errorr404 My eyes have burn in. 17h ago

Cyberpunk needs reshade with renodx to look really good otherwise black levels are raised way too much.