Was looking around for an OLED monitor but they seem a bit out of my reach for now. Hope this helps someone.
Same price from the LG website with free shipping if you don't have Prime (not sure of area restrictions): https://www.lg.com/au/monitors/ultragear-gaming/27gx790a-b
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Mate, I can't even differentiate between 90 hz and 144hz, forget about 480hz. But marketing will have you believe anything below 480hz is just trash.
It's because there are more important things than refresh rate. Higher hz these days means a higher quality panel with lower response time. You can see lower response times
Both are important. LCD is held back by its own responsiveness, OLED is held back by energy usage and thermals at higher refresh rates.
The next step for OLED looks like blue PHOLED in order to continue increasing refresh rate.
@jasswolf: Definitely but cheap products can easily push 144hz but that look terrible. Not that it's not important just that it's held back by the panel response time 99% of the time. Look at cheap phones or the switch 2 for example
@HaydosK: Sometimes it's a cheap panel, sometimes it's no effort in the implementation, or intentionally not driving the panel to the necessary voltage, which is likely the case for the Switch 2 given the Samsung 8nm-based NVIDIA Tegra SoC eating all the battery.
having had this monitor and a 240hz oled side by side. Yes, night and day difference.
This would've been an almost perfect monitor if it utilised the full speeds of DP 2.1
Feel free to show a reasonable image comparison that clearly demonstrates the image quality loss for what would be a bare minimum usage of DSC.
I'm only citing what reviews say. You're probably right about image quality but it's an awful tactic to get people into thinking their monitor has "future proof DP 2.1", when it's actually capped speeds only slightly faster than DP 1.4, so DSC is still used. The main selling point of full speed DP 2.1 is to avoid DSC, and for gamers that means avoiding a delay between alt-tabbing (from game to desktop and vice versa). Then again, LG aren't alone in this and to be honest this really isn't my expertise so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
As you've more or less noted, the biggest issue in this case would be the latency of the implementation, but it can also apply in terms of input latency (unlikely to be an issue). Outside of that, another one might be whether or not it's uncoupled from other features of the monitor, eg. some can be tied to VRR.
Its not QD-OLED either,
This is better than QD-OLED. Doesnt make your screen look purple.
Only 2 years warranty? What about the burn in risk?
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480hz. Can our eyes even differentiate between that and like 240hz?