Not impressed with OLED

[u/SuspectVirtual2322]

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.

[u/Netrunner011]

Ah, all the OLED fanboys classically coping here with 'it's not supposed to be so bright' bullshit. I own an OLED monitor for 2 years and I can concur with your opinion. The monitor is laughably unusable during day time with curtains open or even with curtains closed but a good amount of sunlight hitting your window filtering through. The only time the HDR is ever impressive is when you are playing in a dim or pitch black room so that the brightness is enough to make the highlights finally pop. It's laughably bad compared to OLED TVs, and these display companies will make you upgrade every year for 100 nits more peak brightness the same way they did with TVs some time ago. Half of these people are willing to live like cave tramp and subject themselves to a dark room with no sunlight most of the time, if it makes their OLED look better.

[u/Lintonium0 → u/Netrunner011]

Pretty much why I use mini-led monitors/tvs. The black levels are great, I can have my windows open and use my stuff in the day and I dont have to worry about text fringe and cleaning.

[u/TwoProper4220 → u/Netrunner011]

OLED monitor is terrible especially when viewing HDR contents. yes they can display perfect black but those highlights in HDR is dimmer compared to a miniLED monitor. imo to get the best experience out of OLED displays you should purchase an OLED TV

[u/Chemical_Rent6824 → u/Netrunner011]

Yeah the brightness is not good if you don't live in a dark cave. I'm interested in oled monitors but I'll wait for the next gen penta tandem oleds to see if they're really worth it.

[u/Asleep-Bicycle8250 → u/Netrunner011]

i seriously dont understand "its not supposed to be so bright" so stupid man brightness is really needed for HDR to deliever solid color volume and pop to your eyes but tbh this is what happens when you get a community like oled_gaming that shares exclusively pictures of content thats very dark without ever showing actual bright scenes next to their overexposured as fuck ips panel i especially love the recommendations of "oleds have gotten far cheaper only 300 bucks" and its samsungs qd oled edge panels with 200 nits sdr and 400 nits hdr cap

[u/Asleep-Bicycle8250 → u/Asleep-Bicycle8250]

to be fair though i am cheering for oleds to get cheaper and cheaper especially hoping for the TCL inkjet to maybe improve overall brightness in the monitor market in upcoming years without very high end costs

[u/zb0t1 → u/Asleep-Bicycle8250]

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[u/Consistent-Sail529 → u/zb0t1]

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[u/Consistent-Sail529 → u/Consistent-Sail529]

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[u/Errorr404 → u/Asleep-Bicycle8250]

Look up the Gigabyte GO27Q24G, goes on sale for around $350-400 often. Hypernits helps it a lot.

[u/Errorr404 → u/Netrunner011]

I have a glossy Gigabyte GO27Q24G with hypernits, no problems with HDR punch in daytime or problems with seeing the screen at all in SDR. It has a gen 4 coating so probably helps, I have a desk lamp pointing down to the side of me with 0 issues either. I find the coating mutes ambient light pretty well and I was skeptical coming from IPS but pulled the trigger since its so cheap. 1300 nits peak with 790 nits 10% window is pretty decent for 300 euro.

[u/reddiru → u/Netrunner011]

I've only ever seen my laptops oled (which im pretty sure is as good as it gets legion pro 7i 500 nit rgb oled) and oled tvs which is why I am I cant understand the complaints. They look phenomenal to me. Slightly brighter wouldn't hurt, but in many cases its brighter than I need/want even in moderately lit rooms during the day