What is the best display for me?

Fat Cat11997 · March 16

I'm looking to buy a 1440p 120hz monitor and will use it mostly for fps games as well as laid-back games. Could any1 tell me the pros and cons of lcd, ips, oled, and any of the other types? (srry for posting back to back)

Doobeedoo · March 16

Get 1440p 144Hz+ IPS one. LCD is (TN, VA, IPS) in general, from worst to best. TN is fastest but looks worse, VA can have better contrast then others but not as fast as TN or good looking as IPS, so IPS in 99% case best option.

Cons of LCD over OLED is in many ways, general picture quality, contrast, speed. But costs way more. LCDs have backlight that is on vs OLED per pixel light. So blacks will always feel washed or glowy on LCD and also they transition pixels slower between refresh thus blur in motion. They are not really HDR displays due to backlight.

Cons of OLED aside from price, if used for long with static UI elements like working all day on it, overtime may burn in the image. They have mitigations but not advised to use them for long hours at time with static elements content. Full screen brightness if you care, like full white will not flash you as on expensive LCD may. So if you are in very lit room it would be a con.

Stahlmann · March 18

LCD:

TN is the fastest LCD technology and will deliver the clearest moving pictures, at the expense of everything else.

VA is the slowest LCD technology, but will typically deliver the best contrast, meaning deeper blacks. Color performance is better than TN, but not as good as IPS.

IPS is in the middle in terms of response times, has the best color performance and viewing angles, but contrast is still as bad as TN. This is typically the best allrounder technology for gaming monitors.

Any LCD monitor needs an FALD (full-array-local-dimming) backlight to properly support HDR. The use of FALD muddies the waters, since an IPS with this feature will outperform a VA in terms of contrast, whereas it previously couldn't.

OLED:

WOLED is the conventional mass-market OLED tech also used in most OLED TVs. Speed and image quality is better than any LCD technology, plus they have good HDR by default but they're more expensive and come with the risk of burn-in depending on your use case.

QD-OLED has the same advantages of WOLED, but even better color saturation at the expense of raised black levels with lots of ambient light around. So far they also seem to be slightly more susceptible to burn-in compared to WOLED. But this technology is also the newest, so long-term user reviews are still few and far betwen.