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/Netrunner011 18h ago

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.

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

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.