Pixels, Customs, and Pixels by Custom: What Screens Does the Community Have on Their Desktop? 172 comments
How is your screen setup organized on your desktop? This week, as part of the Sunday Question, for the third consecutive year and based on the large community survey, questions about panel type, pixel count, and monitor holder at the turn of the year. Has the proportion of OLED panels increased over the past 12 months?
Table of Contents: What screens does the community have on their desktop? How many pixels per inch did your screen have? How many pixels does your setup offer and does it work with HDR? How is your screen configured? Participation is highly encouraged. The last ten questions on Sundays are an overview of motivation and data usage.
This has become a tradition, and the editorial team has compiled a large survey article every year, as the soft and hardware base of the huge community is established in the forum. At the end of 2024, there were again questions about the monitor situation. With such a wide range of topics, it’s always important not to go overboard.
These surveys didn’t necessarily go into detail, which is why the community’s monitors were covered in detail once a year as part of a Sunday question. About a year since the last round, the time has come again. After all, many models have been on the market in the past 12 months, especially those with an OLED panel.
How many pixels (e pixels per) inch does your monitor have?
Readers who did not participate in the large community survey at the end of 2024 should not be held back from the surveys on the subject of displays. They are everywhere, but the results are still interesting.
There was also a question about the size or diagonal of the PC monitor. However, this remains superficial in favor of direct comparability with previous community surveys. Therefore, the question is asked in more detail at this point: What is the size of your main PC monitor? Anyone with a monitor whose diagonal image is not precisely given in the following answer options can select the option that comes next.
And for the sake of completeness: what aspect ratio are you counting on for your main PC monitor?
This size, form factor, and resolution are questioned, but their combination is not yet. Pixel or dot density indicates the number of pixels per inch offered. The higher the value, the sharper the image. Modern smartphones have up to 500 PPI zones, but PC monitors with a greater eye distance are usually in the 100-200 ppi range. The following table provides a hint for participants who do not know the PPI value of their monitor and do not want to calculate it.
Selected display resolutions vs. pixel number pixel density resolution 7,680 × 4,320 (8k UHD) 16:9 33.18 million 275 PPI at 32 inches 5,120 × 2,880 (5K UHD+) 16:9 14.75 million 218 PPI at 27.5,06,120 × 2,160 (WUHD) 21:9 11.06 million 140 × 2,160 (WUHD) 21:9 11.06 million 140 × 2,160 (WUHD) PPI at 39.7 inches 39,840 × 2,160 (4k UHD) 16:9 8.29 million 140 ppi at 31.5 inches 163 ppi at 27 inches 5,120 × 1,440 (DQHD) 32:9 7.37 million 120 ppi) at 44.5 inches 3440 × 1,440 (UWQHD) 21:9.95 Pi 40 × 1,440 (UWQHD) at 34 inches 2560 × 1,440 (QHD) 16:9 3.67 million 109 ppi at 27.5 inches at 31,560 × 1,080 (WFHD) 21: 9 2.76 million 94 ppi at 29.5 inches 1920 x 1080 (FHD) 16: 2.07 million 82 ppi
And so to the survey: how many PPI does your main PC monitor offer?
Aside from this, but particularly interesting, the question about the built-in panel was also asked at the turn of the year. In recent years, more and more PC monitors with OLED displays have become available, and 2025 is poised to bring a few dozen more OLED models. For the first time, 27-inch displays with UHD resolution and 240 Hz.
It’s safe to assume that the proportion of community members with an OLED display has increased a year ago compared to the survey’s right-hand side.
How many pixels does your setup offer and does it support HDR?
Below, this is the number of pixels pushed back and forth per second. The resolution of your main screen and the number of monitors connected to the PC were only collected in the mentioned community survey, but how many pixels do all the monitors that are permanently connected to your main PC offer?
Anyone who isn’t afraid of additional arithmetic is now invited to actually use the refresh rates of the displays used to calculate the number of pixels per second. They should calculate their own graphics card or IGPU (in theory) and can share the result in the comments.
The question of the majority of community members focuses on HDR content on their own PC. Displays are increasingly being specified according to the corresponding standards; for example, VESA DisplayHDR 400, 600, and 1000, as well as HDR10, but also Dolby Vision, are found in monitors.
How is your display set up?
The last question goes in a different direction: how have you set up your main display? With the included base on the table? Or is it too low for you and you’ve found a suitable sub-frame? An elegant solution, in turn, is mounting it using a VESA mount, for example on a rigid monitor frame, a flexible and swiveling arm, or the wall behind the desk. Participation is expressly welcome.
As always, the editorial team welcomes detailed and coherent reasons for your decisions in the comments on the current Sunday question. If you personally hold completely different views that are not covered by the answer options given in the article’s surveys, you can also report them on the forum. Ideas and suggestions for the content of current or future surveys are also welcome.
Readers who have not yet participated in the previous Sunday questions can do so, as the surveys always run for a period of 30 days. The only requirement for participation is a basic, free computer account. Exciting discussions are always taking place in the forum, in particular.
The last ten questions from Sunday’s preview
Desktop organization: How tidy is your OS? Gaming graphics cards: Which GPU do you have installed and what can you consume? Desktop PCs: How many M.2 slots and USB ports does your main board have? 50 years of Microsoft: What was your first Windows operating system? You? Radeon RX 9070 (XT): How do you like the new graphics cards and will you buy one? AMD Radeon RX 9070 (XT): What are your price and performance forecasts? Rollables: Do you have a flip or fold smartphone? Or why not? Movie and series streaming: Which services do you use and can you share them? Kingdom Come 2: Have you dived into the medieval role-playing game? Motivation and Use of Data
The data collected as part of the Sunday Questions is solely used to make the community’s mood and readers’ hardware and software preferences and development more visible. There is no financial or advertising context, nor is there any evaluation for market research purposes or sharing of the data with third parties.
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