![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Any OLED is susceptible to burn-in due to the fundamental principle of an organic self-emitting diode, but it's even more likely to happen if you're leaving certain images on the screen for long periods i.e. There are also other OLED quirks to be aware of. When you're spending $1,499, it pays to be sure. You might find you don't see what the fuss is about and want the monitor anyways, but you might just realise it's not for you. If, like me, you spend most of your time working from the same machine you game on, I'd at least go see if you can view this screen in a store close to your home before you buy it. I see it this way: if you are someone who uses their gaming PC to play games after work or school is done, the PG49WCD offers one of the most impressive pure gaming experiences I've ever experienced from the comfort of my desktop. If you prefer a monitor you don't need to worry about, go with something else. ❌ You're worried about burn-in: This is true of any OLED gaming monitor, but burn-in is a real concern and you do have to keep your wits about you to prevent it in the long run. ❌ You're planning to stare at a lot of spreadsheets: While there's plenty of screen space for navigating Excel or Sheets, I find myself turned off by the slight chromatic aberration effect this screen produces on text of a certain size. Us PC gamers look at tiny text all the time and sit really close to the screen too-much closer than I hope most would stare at a TV in a living room. Yet when transplanting a TV panel to a gaming monitor, such as the PG49WCD, it becomes a bit more of a problem. OLEDs are primarily designed for the TV market which means nailing tiny text hasn't been necessarily high on the agenda for Samsung, the manufacturer of all QD-OLED panels. This can, and does, lead to display issues with finer details on the desktop, most notably with text. A QD-OLED panel, however, uses Quantum Dots (hence the QD) leading to a non-standard 'triangular' sub-pixel layout, where the different colour sub-pixels vary in size (that's actually how Quantum Dots work to produce different wavelengths). Traditionally, these come in either RGB or BGR vertical striped layouts, and that works well for clear-cut text. This is aimed at solving an issue present on many OLEDs: colour fringing on text.įor anyone unfamiliar with sub-pixels: each pixel on a modern monitor is (usually) made up of red, green, and blue sub-pixels, the layout of which differs between panel designs. We've barely the first wave of OLEDs and the PG49WCD already features a 'Next-gen' QD-OLED panel replete with a new and improved sub-pixel layout. A gamma of 2.2 is the usual target for each stage, and any deviation can result in an image that appears over/under-exposed. The QD-OLED in this monitor has generally been on the brighter side than some of the first LG OLEDs we've reviewed previously, though the OLED gaming monitor market is changing rapidlyīelow: Gamma testing on the Asus ROG Swift OLED PG49WCD. Fullscreen brightness isn't the strong suit of any OLED gaming monitor right now, you're better off with a Mini-LED for eye-searing levels of luminance. For the entire screen space lit up all at once, you're looking at around 250 nits-more in line with your traditional LCD gaming monitor. That's the peak brightness, usually for an area covering only 3% of the screen's entire size. The ROG Swift OLED PG49WCD brandishes a 1000 nits brightness rating. A high-end graphics card is still a requirement for the ROG Swift OLED PG49WCD, but you'll get higher frame rates out of it. What's good about an ultrawide monitor such as this is it's surprisingly not as demanding on a graphics card-it appears to have much more screen than a 4K gaming monitor but it's made up of 11% fewer pixels. ![]()
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