Compared to my old tn panel LG 1080p monitor there is no comparison. It hurts to look at the old one. Colours looks a lot better and the blacks are amazing. Gaming on it is good personal I don't care for a high refresh rate monitor but that is up to you. The size is really nice for multi-tasking and I have mine on a monitor stand with the other one and I can say that I have never been happier with my setup. One thing to remember that to play games you will have a pretty good set up; for example I have 2 gtx 670's in SLI and some games it has trouble ie Space Engineers and Rising Storm the only 2 that I had to drop back to 1080p.