OLED instead of a new graphics card?: Maybe 2025 is a new display the best option 223 comments
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 and Radeon RX 9000 didn’t provide the expected opportunity to upgrade? So maybe this year is a new display on them and an OLED with a high resolution and a high refresh rate? The upgrade could certainly be worth more than a new GPU for the gaming PC experience.
Table of contents: Maybe 2025 is a new display the best option OLED display instead of a new graphics card? OLEDs are ripe for the gaming PC, but the price and the offer! Your opinion!?
OLED display instead of a new graphics card?
What systems do PC core editors play? The editorial team’s article on The Gaming PCS: With this hardware, we’re playing privately, available at the turn of the year.
In addition to CPUs and graphics cards, and then inevitably a maximum of GeForce RTX 4000, Radeon RX 7000 (or Intel Arc A/B), another topic was on the agenda: the display. Some, for example, Fabian and Jan, had their eye on one of the new OLED screens with a high resolution and high Hertz. Wolfgang, on the other hand, had already made some private observations and—as expected and fortunately—was enthusiastic about the expensive purchase. His one-sentence conclusion:
I can really bring anyone who’s thinking about upgrading their computer up to date, in many cases, probably to think about the monitor in many cases.
Wolfgang Andermahr after purchasing an OLED screen
At that time, however, many gamers had a different purchase on their calendar: the purchase of a new GeForce RTX 5000 with significantly more power.
But as we know, things turned out differently. There were also some very good new graphics cards from AMD, the Radeon RX 9070 XT and the RX 9070, and the Radeon RX 7900 XT (x), but also “only” in view of the possibility of avoiding FSR 4 and increasingly FSR 3 in the future.
In CB Radio Podcast #105: Gaming-Blackwell disappointed for the third time – what now? Fabian and Jan therefore raised the question again in February: could 2025 be the ideal year for enthusiasts to invest the money they saved in a new display? And if so, then directly in one of the new OLED screens? OLEDs are ripe for the gaming PC
In addition to Wolfgang, the other editors on the Berlin editorial team were able to demonstrate the optical advantages of switching to a current OLED display over the past few months. The fanless Corsair Xeneon 34WQHD240-C QD monitor with 240 Hertz and up to 1000 nits was used for the UWQHD (3440 × 1440 pixels) references, which have been integrated since the beginning of the year.
Extreme contrasts, rich colors (in this case, enhanced by the semi-gloss display), and the promised brightness of up to 1000 nits in selective light sources such as muzzle flashes or headlights (HDR support) were immediately noticeable when the display was activated in games, when you entered the room. And at 240 Hertz with AMD Freesync Premium and Nvidia G-Sync (compatibility without G-Sync module), tearing is also not an issue. Not so important in games, but also to be classified as very good, the high color accuracy.
From a distance, when it wasn’t meant to be seen, the Fabian user-type was too low in pixel density for displays that inevitably measured over 30 inches last year with UHD resolution.
Macro recording of OLED displays
But since CES 2025, OLED displays have long been crammed onto the market with 240 Hertz UHD on 27 inches. Techastuce, with the ASUS ROG Strix OLED XG27UCDMG (review), only tested the first display of this type today.
But the price and the offer! The prices for these displays are still steep, at over €1,000, even though the Corsair Xeneon 34WQHD240-C (starting at €1,100) has already dropped significantly. But given the prices required for new graphics cards and their performance growth, what’s the difference between MFG, AI applications (FP4), or video editing (4:2:2)?
Perhaps not, because modern UHD OLED displays are undoubtedly an expensive purchase. This, and the still-clear market offering, is also the only drawback, being highly subjective properties such as glossy or matte display glass.
Your opinion!?
How do you see this? Is the money saved better invested in one of the new OLED displays in view of the graphics cards newly introduced this year? What prompted you to buy them in the past or keep your fingers away? The price? The technology? Or is it simply a “Jans problem” that the old display still reliably does its job? Tip: There’s also a market on TechAstuce.
Would you prefer an OLED like the one on the Corsair Xeneon 34WQHD240-C instead of a new graphics card?
Would you prefer an OLED like the one on the Corsair Xeneon 34WQHD240-C instead of a new graphics card?
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