IPS vs OLED vs VA Gaming Monitors: The Ultimate Comparison

Struggling to pick the perfect gaming monitor? This video breaks down IPS vs OLED vs VA panels to find the best one! Discover the best colours, deepest blacks, and clearest motion.

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[theivadim]

Are you tempted to get an OLED monitor after watching this?🙂

[ponraul]

Guess I’ll be using VA for a while… Once OLED goes from $1200 to under $300 then I’ll get one.

[doomzstrafe]

The blacks might be blacker on the OLED but the colors are more accurate on the IPS and VA.

3:07 is a perfect example. Honey isn't the color that is on the OLED screen IRL, it's closer to the IPS and VA color. I think the IPS looks the most color accurate here.

[PhilipKerry]

The colour of the Honey on the IPS and VA panels is more accurate, I've NEVER seen orange Honey as depicted on the OLED .

[venomtailOG]

Why can't you compare non favourable footage like bright scenes with even brigter highlights? Peak brigness is a factor that blindsides many OLED monitors.

[Rossi_]

The only downside of the oled is the burn in, once they rid of it will be the perfect monitor/tv.

[shunae]

after watching tons of comparisons video on panels, i came to a conclusion:
"Most reviewers don't know what a good image should look like, and they don't know how to configure their monitors correctly."

[gobemi]

Thank you for your great comparison! I can speak only for myself, but I prefer an IPS panel. It feels better to my eyes. I don't know why, it's less tiring. I like the wide angle view of an IPS panel. And the colors seem very balanced to me. My son is a gamer and bought a OLED panel. But I would not spend the extra money at this time.

[benisapp]

Not until they solve the Oled burn in problem, and yes they do burn in.. Nano Ips will do for now. Prize difference...prizes needs to drop on oled.

[SNFDNSD]

I can definitely see some glow and backlight bleeding from the ips in this video. The blacks also look gray. I'm going to get a VA panel for sure. I would get OLED but they're out of my budget.

[Ggrasu]

100% OLED wins out on the two monitors without much discussion, but it's very good that you show us, the new content consumers, what is good and what is bad, thank you very much!

[jrlivingspaces]

Wish you did also coating grain comparison for productivity work but still love the comparison vid great work!

[JohnSmith-do]

Would be interesting to compare dead pixels occurence between the 3

[riannair]

Tru, coming from IPS Dell S2721DGF to an OLED Gigabyte FO27Q3 ... once you experimented OLED can't go back to IPS! Difference is to huge in quality of image, response time but also for the price you need for OLED.

[Sektor]

im using VA panel with 1:4000 contrast (TUF Gaming VG34VQL1B ) and my blacks are good.
im sure oled is better but too expansive for me now.
in your video the VA panel looks bad, maybe because the camera angles idk...

[PCKodachi]

❤ V dropped the mic! Thanks for making this video. watch it through as always.

Gamers, if the wallet is not large enough for the awesome OLED (like me) and you wanna game in the dimmed or dark gaming room. Grab the VA to prevent your eyes from seeing the famous white cloud IPS glow, though it can be "mitigated" by putting a desk lamp lighting the wall behind your monitor. VA is reccomened.

If you are gaming or movies in a well-lit room. Then, by all means, you have all the choice to your preferences!

[DELTAXTC]

I bought an ASUS PG32UCDM, thats one of the 32inch 4k 240hz QD-OLED monitors. Its amazing! I massively overpaid for it, by buying it as soon as it was available on Amazon here in EU, paid freaking 1700€ for it (thats with tax, but still). It has gotten A LOT cheaper, during the recent Prime Days Amazon had it for just 1300€ or even 1200€, cant remember, I think it was 1299€.

I can highly recommend this screen. Its a great experience. The magenta tint from QD-OLED is ZERO problem, if your room is acceptable for this OLED tech. I dont have any windows behind me, I dont have any lights behind me. I always have the sun blockers/curtains down when using my PC; already did that with my previous IPS panel. So I dont have a single ioda of magenta on my screen, regardless what time it is. And it doesnt have to be dark in the room for it to be perfect; you just cant have light sources directly penetrating the screen, and then youre fine!

[genyjourney]

As a true black, I enjoyed this video. Well done.

[SavantApostle]

I got an lg e9 and it has vertical banding. Still is a great experience, but in dark scenes the bands are pretty visible. It sucks because I bought it to play scary games, which are entirely dark scenes. Also, I got a weird halo around my mouse cursor. Hopefully the manufacturing is better now, if not I'm not sure it's worth it.

[JamaaLKellbass]

very good video indeed. keep it up mate