Monitor

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

Cutaway QD-OLED monitor panel showing five stacked blue emitting layers casting light forward with red and green quantum-dot sparks

Five stacked blue layers push Penta Tandem to 1,300 nits

Penta Tandem QD-OLED adds a fifth blue layer to reach 1,300 nits on monitors, but the five-layer panel has shipped since 2025 under an older name.

LG UltraGear OLED curved ultrawide gaming monitor switched on atop a desk with a keyboard and mouse in a dim home office

LG's UltraGear monitor installs McAfee adware on its own

LG UltraGear monitors install McAfee adware through Windows Update without consent, and LG TVs harvest viewing data. See what to turn off now.

A glowing staircase of five rising light panels climbing out of deep black, the top panel blazing a sustained white glow beside a small bright peak flash

True Black 1400 holds 700 nits across a full OLED screen

DisplayHDR True Black 1400 makes OLED panels hold 700 nits across a full screen, not just a brief 1400-nit peak. The tier ladder shows the jump.

LG UltraGear evo 27GM950B monitor on a dark desk, screen showing a fiery HDR game scene lighting the keyboard below

2,304 dimming zones sit behind LG's 27GM950B screen

LG 27GM950B has 2,304 dimming zones on a 27-inch 5K mini LED panel. See the zone-per-pixel maths and whether the OLED sibling is the better desk buy.

Alienware AW3926QW on its round base beside the LG 39GX950B on its hexagonal base, both curved ultrawide screens lit against a dark background

The Alienware AW3926QW is $700 cheaper than LG's 39GX950B

Alienware AW3926QW vs LG 39GX950B compared on subpixels, brightness, text sharpness, HDR modes, and a $700 price gap between two 39-inch 5K2K OLEDs.

Two curved ultrawide monitors side by side on a desk, the left one gently curved and the right one bending sharply toward the viewer

Dell U4025QW vs LG 39GX950B-B on a Linux coding desk

Dell U4025QW vs LG 39GX950B-B compared on curvature, text sharpness, ports, and price. IPS Black with Thunderbolt 4 against a 165Hz 5K2K OLED.