Basically ,we need to have at least 2 monitors. An IPS for daytime use and productivity , and an OLED for dark room gaming /movies.

An OLED display with a glossy screen, 4k resolution and enough PPI makes games look like the images of those games on CD cases and magazines. IT'S SHARP AND COLORFUL. Can't wait to see this tech mature.

This was a great watch - structuring, pacing, and B-roll were just incredibly well executed. Well done!

You have some of the best comparison shots I've seen in a video like this. Great work!

The reason why i chose IPS even for gaming is the fact thag i have a 10 year old full HD IPS tv that is still going strong. The tech have matured and proven itself to be reliable.

Nice video, I appreciate the out of focus simulations showcasing the color fringing, that was helpful. Hopefully the 4K monitor sized panels come out sooner than later, so the non standard pixel layouts are less of an issue.

This is one of the best videos i have seen that explains EXACTLY what i was looking for. thank you!

thank you for the thorough explanation. i’m researching what monitor to go for next, and this helps quite a bit 👍🏻

The most complete, concise, well written and presenting videos! I have watched too many to care and just wanted to make sure I got the best monitor for me. Now I know, thank you!

Great video. Really nicely explained differences with great examples to show what the differences really look like. :)

Great videos, best explaining the real advantages and disadvantages of those panel technologies. Thx for the job done.

Very cool, straight forward comparison test, thank you for making it👍

A lot of people have made videos on this topic but I could never see the difference in videos, but your side by side comparison captures the difference really well.

I came here to know if I should get a VA or IPS panel, and left wanting to spend my lifesavings to get the best OLED one. Oh shit.

Thank you for your videos! They are well-made and informative

This is by far the best review ever. Amazing explanation!! Awesome content!

Nice video, it's still up for debate which monitor tech is best - probably still in that annoying situation where you'd really want 2 or 3 different screens for doing everything - although that obviously isn't really a possibility. I think I'm going to stick it out with my IPS for a while, and maybe assess the situation with OLED (or micro LED by then) in a couple of years

Not that I didn’t know what you showed but an excellent video nevertheless. A comparison of OLED and IPS/VA miniLED would be most welcome. Very solid work!

very nice, i love that you tested the monitors side by side whilst gaming!

Finally. The clearest definition of the difference between them. Much thanks❤

I would love to switch to an oled, but I think the problem right now for us is price. We put that money into my new build a year and a half ago, so we have a more low-mid range budget on the monitor. Half the cost of my build went to a Asus 3080 strix during the shortage crisis. I was an art major in college. I get super ocd on color accuracy too. And I need more contrast on my next monitor. Games like lotro, eso, and skyrim are hard to see at night or in caves and dungeons. So I keep the room completly dark all day to compensate.

We've already reached peak IPS/VA design when it took over CRT around 20 years ago. In the beginning it was a blur fiesta but here we're today 360hz blur free. The next gen OLED/MicroLED is not quite there yet. But none of us are getting any younger!

Very detailed and interesting video. Thanks for your work!

Thank you, insanely helpful!

I just had a QD-OLED for a few days. The color fringing on text is a serious issue in my opinion, I genuinely gave me a headache. Also if you play games with a lot of text it is also pretty bad. The annoying thing is that this issue is actually fixable in principal. MacType on Windows which uses the Freetype rendering which is the default for Linux, can actually ‚adjust‘ the cleartype rendering tech for different subpixel layouts. The problem is though that you can only change the system rendering for system application. Things like browsers, games, MS office and so on can and do render text without system calls, ie they do it in a ‚backed in‘ manner. So you loose this subpixel fine control. Why applications even decide to render text themself is extremely strange to me, its even worse that they can‘t grab these system settings because they are not yet considered standard, its just extremely stupid and weird. Anyway, the only other solutions are either conventional RGB subpixel layouts which I do not know if thats even possible, much higher pixel densities so you can‘t perceive subpixels anymore, or the monitors get some kind of on-the-fly processing for sharp edges (like text). I am honestly kinda surprised this isn‘t already a thing. One would think designing a signal processor for this should not be too dificult and these monitors are really expensive, so its definitely in the budget.

Any chance we can get our hands on a collection of these super pretty wallpapers you always manage to find?

You are a lifesaver man, thank you for creating such thorough and informational content!

I got an LG C1 OLED TV as a PC monitor. It offers free sync and g-sync and game modes for fast response times. Love it. Also I wanted a glossy monitor which you re mostly unable to find as a regular PC monitor anymore. 🙂

I hope they create the ultimate monitor type one day that will have all the best sides of OLED and IPS and VA monitors in it

So far the best video i have seen on this topic.

Went into this not knowing anything about displays and the most basic understanding of pixels. Now I can confidently decide the best monitor for how I use my setup. Thank you

I'm watching this video on a TN monitor but I can still tell how contrasty and rich the colors are on the OLED

Unlike my tv or my cellphone, I actually think burn in would be a bigger issue with a monitor at least in my case. I spend way too much time on Football Manager

Very well explained. Awesome video 🎉🎉

Wow I learned so much!! thank you for this video

This is great information as I was curious about your take. I have been using 1440p IPS & VA monitors for years and was very happy with those. I did just buy an Alienware AW3821DW (IPS 38" 3840x1600) as I wanted vertical space along with horizontal space. it was a great deal on sale for $899.99 IMO and won't impact performance of my system as much as full 4K would. The Alienware AW3423DWF QD-OLED is supposed to be the greatest thing currently, but there is no additional vertical height and I cannot handle the screen prompt for a "pixel refresh every 4hrs" to prevent burn-in (ridiculous and kills usability). I might have waited for the ASUS PG38UQ (IPS 4K 38" but oh well) this probably is the REAL sweet spot for usability IMO (productivity and gaming). What I am really waiting for is a uLED 38" monitor which should fix all of the monitor shortcomings!

As a casual FPS/Racing gamer and pretty big media consumer I recently switched from my 32” LG IPS gaming monitor for a 42” LG C2 OLED TV and I have no regrets, the little bit of effort to stop burn-in is worth having the AMAZING movie experience.

Incredibly helpful video!

Excellent and exceptional review!

This video settled it for me, Im sticking with upgrading my 1080p to 2K VA panel from AOC same brand, I work mostly as systems administrator and programming in daily use, gaming is absolutely minimal, although I am upgrading my system to a beast so I can have some fun here and there i.e Doom Eternal type single player fun but it can't justify the OLED over my daily use, good review, got a subscriber in me.

I used to play with strix 165hz 27" IPS but bought LG C1 48" OLED to try it out. The IPS is now my secondary discord monitor. The difference is like going from DVD to Bluray.

This is a brilliant and helpful video 👏🏼

What a great explanation! Thanks!

An advantage that you didn't mention about IPS is that it has a wider viewing angle vs. VA. So if you have a wide seating arrangement, and on a budget, you may end up purchasing an IPS based TV.

i bought the ASUS VG27AQ after watching one of your videos. Its a 27 inc 1440p IPS monitor. I have to say, i love watching movies or playing games at night. There is definitely back light and i understand if that bothers high end users. But for a regular 5-10 hour gamer per day who games as a hobby, i dont mind this at all. I was going to buy a VA minitor since they look very good but afterall decided for an IPS since i watch games in awkward positions.

Great explanation and examples!

This video distilled the differences betweek techs in a very well-presented and digestible manner!

I have a uled va panel with 600ish local dimming zones and quantum pixels and its about as good as any oled I've seen lately. A tiny bit of bloom around very bright text on a black background like movie credits but for everything else its top notch. Certainly cost about half the price of a similarly sized oled.

This video convinced me to buy oled. Went for alienware's ultrawide DWF and it is absolutely stunning. I would like to say for anyone still on the fence that the difference is much much bigger in person than what you see on the video. The video will only give you a small taste of how big the difference is because the camera just doesn't capture the full difference in brightness, contrast and detail. When you have OLED and LCD next to each other in your room, the difference is huge. Absolutely amazing tech. In short words, it looks like you are looking straight through a window and it feels like you can touch what's on the other side. Watched Interstellar last night, wonderful experience especially in the black hole scene.

Thank you so much for explaining. Helps me really to make a purchase decision.

Excellent video covering pros and cons of all 3 panel tech.

if OLED can ever really address the burn in issues, and mitigate or prevent them, I'd totally get one. That's the ONE THING that I'm worried about. Everything else I could work with.

I was considering buying a OLED screen in the future, but I have to say that my IPS Monitor looks like 10 times better than yours in the video. At first I had a bit backlight bleeding, but after some weeks it was completely gone. I have an LG Ultragear 27GL850-B, changed some colour settings, reduced the brightness a bit and this panel just looks so amazing.

Awesome, solid video as always Looking forward to a mini LED OLED comparison :D

Thanks, very quality video that's very easy to understand. You're awesome

I’ll adopt oled in a few years. I’m enjoying my dual monitor set up. Got the acer predator 240 hertz 27 inch monitors with my 13900k and 4090.

I have the 27inch LG OLED and love it but would recommend that most people go IPS. IPS monitors are the most cost effective choice right now and for around 20-30% of the cost of an OLED monitor you can get a really nice IPS monitor with a high refresh rate and greater brightness. Unless you're like me and eat, sleep, and breath horror games and also primarily play games after dark I would wait till there is more competition between manufacturers that will hopefully drive the price of OLED monitors down.

watching stock footage on my current monitor made me realize how much I appreciate it...

Nice paced video. I wished I saw this before I went monitor shopping.

By far the best tech youtuber i swear. Not fast paced af and takes time to actually dive into what shit means and provide real side by sides comparisons that are visible. Like you can actually see what to look for and notice it nicely. Felt like i was at micro center running tests on all of em

Waiting for Mini LED vs OLED video as I don't think OLED is perfect specially in video processing

It is almost like the perfect monitor is kept away from us. There is always a compromise. If we had a perfect one, we would never buy another. Hmm.

Thanks for the informative video.

Great video! Looking forward to your FALD vs OLED comparison!

I wish more people would have really hammered down the disadvantages of an IPS monitor when I was doing my research. I eventually landed on an IPS monitor and now regret it mightily. My only options now is to live with it, or sell the the IPS at loss. Wtf happened to monitors in the last 5 years? If my old lcd monitor from 2015 didn't die, I'd still be using it. It had great black levels, decent colors, and minimal ghosting/smearing. And at a budget friendly price as well. All these monitors today have glaring downsides.

My Asus OLED PG27AQDM is pretty bright, even at just 70/100 brightness(in FPS mode). In HDR mode it goes to a 100. When I first got it the HDR was pretty washed out but after a firmware update, the colors do pop when viewing HDR content. I'd say overall it was a good purchase, and hoping for more development into this technology to make it more affordable and a standard in the future.

Thanks for the video, really helped me decide what to buy, I'm going with ips for my use case as a software developer that reads code.

Fantastic video. Thanks!

I'd love more black level detail than IPS, but for now just can't accept losing anything when it comes to text sharpness or SRGB range color accuracy. In the near future I hope to maybe find some flat VA monitor using a Samsung panel(for the speed). Otherwise I'll be stuck in 27" 1440p IPS "mediocrity". ☺️

I've bought a monitor with VA panel. I do everything, from playing games, watching mvoies to studying and graphical design. It's pretty decent technology, but the ghosting is visible and I have hard time choosing the right contrast for dark colours, because people who have IPS sees it differently. But that's just all, I think it's a good idea to go for a VA panel after all.

Just the video I needed, thank you! Guess it'll be IPS for my home office/gaming monitor for now.

I‘ve got a VA Panel, Freesync 75hz AOC. Never had an issue with ghosting, and the colours are amazing.

The downside from oled is that it ages quick. VA and IPS doesn’t age that quick. I prefer VA because of the good contrasts and colors and the good price.

If you're a gamer and don't do productivity work on your personal PC, then OLED is definitely worth it, imo. I have the Alienware AW3423DW and it is THE best upgrade (went from VA) I've made in a long time. It is amazing for gaming, truly jaw-dropping in action. I don't know how many times I've been blown away by the visuals this thing gives to games. It's an experience for sure. Definitely worth every penny for a PC gamer.

Came across your video researching monitors for gaming and I'm glad I did, very well done and you have a new subscriber. On that note, I am quite OCD when it comes to display tech and there's no single monitor type that I'm 100% happy with. With IPS, the glow in the corners and lack of high contrast is annoying. Even more annoying is with VA monitors with the streaking and ghosting which in fast paced games gets pretty bad even on higher end models. But with OLED, the lack of sharp text, fringing and risk of burn-in and having to take extra steps to mitigate it just don't seem to be worth the high cost they demand. So I'm kind of stuck in purgatory as far as which monitor I'm going to get currently.

Funfact: you need an OLED-Monitor to view this video 😂

Yeah oled is good but will never be mainstream untill the monitors hit sub 500$. Waiting for micro led seems like a good option.

Another banger! keep it up!

very pleased with my Dell g3223q 4k 144hz IPS purchase last week. I need business productivity along with game playing. This replaces a Dell u2711 that is 12 years old and still looks awesome. I just wanted to upgrade from 60hz fixed and insure that the old monitor wouldn't suddenly die.

Thank you for this. I have an ASUS PG279Q and was feeling the FOMO. I have OLED TV's in my living room and my GF loves them for movies and TV shows. I bit the bullet and bought the LG 27GR95QE-B. For 1K USD, I expected to be WOW'ed. For reference when I bought the PG279Q in 2017 (for around 900 USD) It was a revelation - IPS with its speed, Gsync, it was amazing for my games at the time (CSGO, OW, WoW, LoL, other FPS) I really enjoyed the LG OLED monitor, I thought it was a definite upgrade, but not enough for the cost. Im playing more WoW , Lost Ark, Diablo4 now and its great for the D4, but I felt it was lacking (esp in brightness) in WoW and Lost Ark. I returned it after a week. I know I couldve kept it, but with side to side comparisons against my PG279Q, (which is older now and with more screen hours than I can count), I preferred my old reliable. When LG releases a brighter OLED monitor, I will definitely buy it. My other accessory screens are all LG, and am looking forward to having a full LG setup.

I have all 3 panel types and I agree with your assessment. While oled is the best/my favorite for image quality. I found out real quick that what i thought wasn't a particularly bright room was still overpowering the screen during the day, va is basically an all a rounder/jack of all trades but master of none type. It is really close to oled for sdr with good contrast and gets plenty bright for daytime viewing (why I use it for my main content display during the day), but the backlight bleed/haloing is very noticable in the dark, and ips is better for off angle with great pixel response(better than va for games) while also having the brightness of lcd.

Iin 2012 I bought the Galaxy S3 with "Super AMOLED" and was stunned. A decade later, my new LG C2 is bringing back old and new found love! Nothing compares to the capabilities so far and it's only getting better. (this is not an employee for big oled)

Das "Bis zum nächsten Video" am Ende hat mich echt geflasht.

Excited for more mini-led displays coming out. I love OLED but have no desire to babysit my monitor when i do work on it multiple hours a day. A good mini-LED monitor with a good alrorithm/dimming zones would just be more versatile for someone like me who games a ton but also has static documents on my screen all the time.

I'm using a 1080p 75Hz IPS at the moment and since I'm just a casual gamer it gets the job done just fine and it wasn't that expensive either. I'll probably upgrade once OLED 1080p panels become available and they aren't that expensive anymore. I know that won't be soon but I feel like only that kind of upgrade would make sense for me. Getting a 144Hz 1080p feels kinda pointless, 1440p is too expensive for me especially when it comes to a PC that would output that resolution. So yeah ideally I'd stick with 1080p but OLED would definitely be a big upgrade.

The brightness point is kinda funny, cause if you're one of those people that keep there IPS brightness at 33-50% (like I used to be), then you won't really feel the difference going to OLED. I have been considering though putting my 4k IPS with mini-LED backlight on a monitor arm next to my ultrawide QD-OLED, specifically for web browsing, whatsapp and discord, because it displays text SO crisp, and then keep my games and media on the OLED.

bought an LG C2 to use as my primary PC monitor a while back, best decision ive ever made. :)

I'm happy with my IPS. I tried switching to a VA, but switched back because I didn't like the motion blur. I'm not using OLED on a desktop system until they fix the burn-in issue.

“Is LCD Still Relevant?” As long as OLED tech remains stuck in kilobuck land, yeah, I’d say LCD panels are still plenty relevant lol

Careful about updating your firmware to latest version on 27GR95QE - since it can cause pixel burn-in (just google: Firmware update 27GR95QE caused image burn in). Normally, to avoid burn in - latest OLED monitors come with a feature - which swaps/moves pixels every couple of seconds or so. Yet, apparently - firmware updates temporarily disable this feature - and thus - on a slow update a burn-in actually happened.

Great review. Subscribed.

I have TF panels on one of my computers and IPS panels on the other. Neither showed any of the lag on the Gaia star maps like the VA screen you showed. Also if I want uber dark blacks, I can turn down the brightness a little and bump up the contrast and it looks similar to the OLED screens I've seen, especially on the IPS screens and I can see them in a brighter room. Dot pitch, refresh rates and response times are way more important than slightly deeper blacks. If you're immersed into a game or watching a fast paced movie, the black areas of the screen have little to no consequence since there is nothing going on in those areas.

OLED Burn in really is a non issue for Movies (Most T.V. as well) and Games because the pixels will constantly be refreshed without much worry. It would take considerable effort to actually destroy an OLED while gaming or watching a movie.

By FAR the BEST review ever , Very True !!!

I have the same OLED as yours. Top notch for games and content creation/consumption. Not so much for text.

This was a great Pros and Cons list. I do game, but not FPS and my primary job is Programming in a brightly lit room so I think I'll go for a VA panel and save my wallet this time around.

It's worth mentioning that in Europe, you can get a 48" 138Hz 4K QLED monitor for cheaper than the middle OLED monitor (~€900, so roughly €100 cheaper). And outside of professional e-gaming in FPS games or Rocket League, 138 Hz is more than plenty (not to mention that the vast majority of computers wouldn't be able to run the more demanding modern AAA titles at higher frame rates in 4K anyways). Of course, the size can be an issue in this case, but if you have the ability to put some distance between yourself and the monitor it's quite great since it allows you to have plenty of additional desk space.

Great video indeed! I'm looking to buy a new large screen monitor and was confused about OLED and frankly was just trying to buy that because it looked spectacular in shops! Thanks to this video, I now have a clear picture in my mind... buy IPS for gaming + work and buy a separate OLED for series/movies and general games consumption that don't have too much UI :)

Best explanation I ever seen

I think taking a bigger size OLED TV will enable to move the window, making it framed, so pixels won't stay in the same place. I know it socks, but OLED is so good it worth the hassle imo. I took a good IPS panel with HDR, and after that realized I want OLED, as I want good blacks to the bulk to those bright ratio. You can't be happy with just one of those features trust me. I was really impressed how even old games look, like quake RTX looks like I'm really there. It's the nest big thing after HD