Monitor

Displays judged on text sharpness, real brightness, and the ports and cables you need to actually drive them.

Past 360Hz each refresh saves well under a millisecond

Refresh rate input lag shrinks under 1ms per step above 360Hz, where 360Hz to 500Hz trims about 0.39ms and system latency dominates display gains.

Two curved Alienware ultrawide monitors side by side on a dark desk, the larger 39-inch OLED showing purple swirls and the 34-inch model showing a blue aurora

Alienware AW3926QW vs AW3426DWM

Alienware AW3926QW vs AW3426DWM compared on panel, resolution, refresh rate, ports and the $750 gap between a 5K2K OLED and a 240Hz VA screen.

Two curved Alienware OLED ultrawide monitors side by side on a dark desk, the larger left screen showing a much finer pixel grid than the smaller right screen

Six million pixels separate the AW3926QW from the AW3426DW

Alienware AW3926QW vs AW3426DW compared on panel maker, resolution, refresh rate, screen coating and ports, plus which OLED ultrawide suits your desk.

Asus ROG Swift PG34WCDM curved ultrawide OLED monitor on its stand showing a fast-motion racing game

Turn on BFI and the PG34WCDM clears OLED motion blur

Black frame insertion cuts OLED persistence blur on Asus's ROG PG34WCDM. It locks to 120Hz in SDR and dims the screen, the trade for sharper motion.

Two game consoles wired to a single gaming monitor, one via a single wide glowing HDMI cable and one via several branching ports

Xbox and the PS5 handle HDMI VRR through different ports

HDMI VRR takes a different port on each console: the PS5 needs a full HDMI 2.1 display, while the Xbox Series X also runs VRR over HDMI 2.0 and 1.4.

A torrent of 4K image tiles compresses into a single DisplayPort cable and fans back out onto a second monitor beside a stopwatch

DSC squeezes 4K 240Hz through a DisplayPort 1.4 link

Display Stream Compression fits 4K 240Hz through a DisplayPort 1.4 link, staying visually lossless with microsecond latency and full 4:4:4 color.