Which QD OLED is Better? - 4K 240Hz vs 1440p 360Hz Monitors

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Which QD OLED is Better? - 4K 240Hz vs 1440p 360Hz Monitors
This year we’ve had a gaggle of new OLED monitors come busting through our walls and jump scare us with insane image quality by finally allowing PC gamers to get per pixel local dimming, HDR, super fast response times, and higher refresh rates pushing the envelope of what our eyes can handle, but many people are asking the question, should I smack down my hard earned clams on a 4K 240Hz OLED, or a 360Hz 1440p OLED monitor.

Well today I’m going to help you answer that question, first by starting off with the most important metric aside from the price, which believe me, we’ll touch on later, but anywho let’s first go over clarity.

Now thankfully both monitor come with a glossy coating meaning unless your using an LG OLED TV your likely to get a large jump in clarity and vibrancy by moving off a typical grainy matte coating to these new OLED coatings, but there is a massive difference in resolution which will lead to the 4K option being much, much more clear. 1440p is actually 2560x1440 or 3,686,400 pixels whereas 4K is 3840x2160 pixels. A difference of 2.25X more pixels in favor of the 4K option, and as you can imagine these leads to an enormous increase in clarity allowing you to see details in games and movies which may be completely invisible at 1440p like high resolution textures as well are greatly reducing aliasing in games, meaning that if clarity is your main concern your likely going to want to choose a 4K display, but keep in mind it does come at the cost of performance, which we’ll touch on later.

Of course there's a lot more to monitors than clarity though, which brings me to the next factor gamers should consider… Speed. Now 360Hz vs 240Hz on paper is a massive difference of 50% in favor of the 1440p 360Hz monitor over the 4K 240Hz option, but in practice it’s not so simple. In terms of latency 240Hz has a latency of just 4.17ms whereas 360Hz has a latency of 2.78ms or a difference of just 1.39ms. Now is 1.39ms noticeable, I would say yes, but it’s not significant at all, and in fact simply by setting Nvidia control panel settings correctly you can shave off 10ms, so in terms of speed this isn’t going to turn you into a pro gamer.

However there’s more to refresh rate than speed, there's also motion clarity, and as you can see here in this motion performance test the 360Hz monitor is definitely more clear, but once again it’s not a huge improvement and I think while higher refresh rates are always nice and I’d love to see 1000Hz on all monitors one day, it’s unlikely to bring you from bronze to pro in your favorite game.

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[FNIXcs]

I swear this guy would reject his Uber driver if he pulls up in a matte finished car...

[Paul_Rich]

My bathroom mirror is matte because I don't like seeing my own reflection.

[ArkangelMr]

Nonsense….most people that aren’t dumping thousands of dollars on video cards and monitors, should absolutely go with 1440 until 4k is the norm and you are able to find them in 27 in sizes too. I can’t sit at a desk staring at a TV size monitor inches away from my face while gaming.

[SusBeck]

Personally went with dual monitor setup, 48" 4K/120 LG Oled for single player titles/content consumption + 27" 1440p/360 QD-OLED for kbm and faster paced titles + general workstation stuff. Total cost is only slightly higher than a single 32" 4K 240Hz monitor currently, if you can find a deal on 48" Oled. Best of both worlds

[IDK-ghst]

forgot one HUGE diffrence and it drives me away from 4k being my main monitor. it's the size. 27" is the largest I could go with comp games so 32" would be a disadvantage at that point.

I would have considered the LG "Dual-mode" if not for it's matte display

[Darebi]

I really wanna upgrade to 4k, but a 32 inch screen is too big imo..

[TheUltimateBean]

4k just makes the most sense. Fringing is less obvious when doing anything productive, DLSS that can satisfactorily fake higher resolution from less powerful cards and even then, with a modern gpu, you can play a huge library of older games comfortably in 4k.
240hz is plenty fast for the average person, and realistically the only reason to want 360hz is if winning at esports is your job. So a 27" 4k 240hz glossy OLED (with HDMI 2.1) would be an 'end game' monitor for a large majority of people.

[sardor]

Got mine PG32UCDM, jumping from 1080p 240hz IPS. Don’t go 360hz. Running on 4080, no problem at all in all games.

[AntonioDal.]

While QD OLEDS do have a better color saturation, will their color accuracy not be worse than WOLED because of the pink/magenta tint if there is some ambient light which mixes with the colors on the display?
I also wonder if color accuracy test tools are trustworthy if the tools placed on the monitor blocking ambient light from mixing with the shown content. The tools can be consistent but it might not be a realistic representation for the user experience who ends up with tested & calibrated pure white being shown as pink for the eyes with ambient light.

Im currently thinking about purchasing my first OLED monitor. But playing in a room with plenty of ambient natural light makes me believe that QD OLED would be a bad choice for me. While 4K resolution would require beefy GPU for gaming, it's a much better standardized resolution for watching content than 1440p. It also much better for productivity as it allows window snapping multiple windows into more than 4 and still be able to read text in each. I wonder if I should wait a bit more.

[CT-]

Wish we could get everything with the 4k at 27inchs. 32 is just to big on a desk imo

[gordonfreimann]

thinking of 1k hz is just insane. No triple a title will run that much of fps. We have years of advancements to achieve. We need something like crt for that clarity

[cruzslns]

4k monitors are better but you need to have a beast of a pc to run the 4k max setting at 100fps or higher so I don’t see the point of 4k 240

[Zalibidas]

the milisecond differences kinda stack with other latency reductions like polling and the like. alone it makes no dif, but enough small reductions leads to a big reduction. you probably wont notice though if you arent playing at the peak of skill of the game you play. theres an old game ive been playing for over 15 years and one of the top players of the mode i play, and can notice every tiny insignificant latency reduction... in just that game lol

edit - also, at 2k res, i stop noticing the dif in resolution. 4k and 2k i cant tell the dif. ill always go with refresh rate. i can notice 2k to 4k on my 65 inch tv though

[Mirsano]

I was thinking about maybe buying the 4K Option and be Anke to Play those Single player AAA games on 4K. What if I wanted to Switch to 1440p for other games tho? I read somewhere that Running 1440p on a 4K Monitor Looks Bad. Is that true and if so why and is it bad enough to drop the 4K option for other games entitrely?

[cmoneytheman]

I did upscaling multiple times on PC games, and on EMU, it was always the same as a medium jump.
Even on vids shows it's not a big jump and pics show this too. I watched vids on my 4K TV and the jump isn't big like I said it's med.

People even on forums say the jump isn't that big in games, PC, or console.
Text is where it shows a big difference from 1440 to 4k,
 
Unoptimised games struggle to run native 4K even with monster cards like a 3080-4090. That problem doesn't always happen with 1440p. I'm thinking of switching back to 1440. I have been using a 4K screen since last year. 
1440 I had used for like 6 year's

4k has been frustration with unoptimized/demanding games even using high settings, stutter/dropped fps

[faxeditz]

What should i buy: LG 27GR95QE or Samsung Monitor Gaming Odyssey OLED G6 or Samsung Monitor Gaming Odyssey OLED G8?

[weirdodude]

I've been leaning toward a 1440p 360Hz OLED, thumbs up!

[Vandelay]

Don't forget that 32 inch is too big for competitive games. And also, what's the PPI of the 4k 32 inch vs the 1440p of a 27 inch?
Edit: 108 PPI vs 137.68 PPI on 4k. 27.4% more PPI

[ChewyMustaineReviews]

A think the same as you. 4K 240, all the way.
The only way i can possible think on 1440p monitor,
1) If your hardware cant do 4k 60 fps in "medium" presets of the games you play.
2) You ONLY play multiplayer games like fornite/apex/cs etc, fps games that have advantage of that 360hz and NEVER touching a AAA single player game.
Rest of the cases, if your hardware can do more than 60 fps in "medium quality" in 4k, or you at least play 1 singleplayer AAA game a moth, thats it, you should go to 4k.

Not only games are better in 4k, youtube videos in 4k look better, movies, overall operation system. Productivity work is better in 4k too. There are too much things better in 4k that 120hz of difference just cant match.

Even p* videos are better in 4k and get no advantage of the 360 hz 🤣🤣 rofl