OLED vs QD vs IPS vs VA vs TN for Gaming and More!

in this video I'm aiming to answer the question what panel type should I buy I'm going to be breaking down the the main sort of design differences briefly then jump into feature differences things like response times and refresh rates alongside things like viewing angles and viewing experience in general and even things like the the brightness lifespan cost and availability so let's go OLED panels are slowly working their way into the desktop monitor space and for good reason the organic light emitting diode is a rather special bit of Kit instead of having a single uniform backlight and actively blocking the lights all ad pixels actively well emit light each pixel is made up of red green blue and often white LEDs which are able to fully switch off giving an infinite contrast ratio within just a couple of pixels or sites there are different subpixel layouts the most infamous being Samsung's pentile layout although LG's wbgr layouts is a close circuit but either way you can get readability issues with text at least in Windows as Windows assumes a more standard RGB pixel layout so that the subpixels and if you don't have that then it kind of looks a bit off still oleds are one of the most impressive experiences available right now mini LED is less of a panel type and more a backlight option well there are some mini LED panel based displays they are absolutely massive due to the technical limitation of being able to shrink the individual LEDs so consumer in consumer displays you'll generally find many LEDs as the backlight to a conventional LCD style layer in that case the number number of mini LEDs is generally proportional to the quality of your say HDR experience thanks to having more local dimming zones that's where some of the LEDs will switch off to provide an infinite contrast ratio and get true black rather than the dark gray that a standard LCD panel will generally offer quantum dot is an even newer term but technically speaking it itself isn't a panel type either at least for now Quantum dots are basically something you can add to an existing panel type to greatly improve its quality especially in the colors Department these deserve their own video on how they work but in short the size of the dot determines what color of light they emit with green and red dots being the most common to find in displays the most exciting QD type display on the Horizon is the QD OLED from Samsung promising much better brightness colors and lifespan although you can buy more traditional LCD displays with Quantum dots like LG's Nano IPS lineup and speaking of ips in plane switching panels are rapidly becoming if not already are the standard panel type especially with all of the development in the last decade or so IPS panels are now generally the best all-render liquid Crystal based panels much like all of the other LCD panels IPS panels are still made up of a solid backlight that then shines through the IPS LCD layer which does its best to block the correct amount of light to produce the desired colors black is not a strong suit here as the pixel can't fully block all of the lights the backlight is trying to force through it by come comparison a vertical alignments or VA panel generally does a better job of blocking that light often at the cost of smearing and slow response times as we covered later on in the video some prefer the deeper blacks and don't mind the ghosting in comparison to the faster transitions but more gray blacks of an IPS panel lastly Twisted pneumatic or TN panels are one of the oldest Technologies and for the majority of people who have kind of fallen out of favor their last remaining Market is in the ultra high refresh rate models like asus's newly announced 500 Hertz option coming later this year so that's a brief explainer on each let me run you through the feature differences starting with response types we'll start off with the fastest here which OLED easily Takes the Cake here is capable of switching its pixels on and off in under one millisecond and making it functionally instant they can have some rather strange Behavior though but on the whole they are lightning fast many LED on its own should be the same as OLED although in the more conventional style is near instant for full black to any shade of white or gray with local dimming enabled I should add but is otherwise functionally the same as whatever panel it gets attached to normally IPS the same goes for quantum dot where again it mostly gets used on IPS panels and so it generally sits in the same category as their TN is generally the the next fastest followed again generally speaking about IPS and then V8 when it comes to refresh race at least in the available monitors right now Tien and IPS actually pretty much tight with 300 and 360 Hertz options available using both panel types rog's Asus Rog Swift 500 Hertz that's on the way will swing that balance back to Tien though but still pretty close even in the more mainstream range IPS monosource can be found with upwards of 240 hertz refresh rates compared to the say 165hz range for VA panels oleds can generally run 120 hertz at the moment although there are some that are more recent that are running in more like 165 Hertz as well as for color reproduction this is an entirely insanely detailed science in and of itself but to do my best to paraphrase an entire field of science the main factors that you should probably be considering here are the black level in contrast color gamut coverage and the accuracy of those colors oh that takes an easy lead in the black level and contrast Apartments being able to individually switch off the pixels meaning that you can get true black and an infinite contrast ratio and that contrast ratio can be a single Pixel apart allowing for the the beautiful dark scenes with no Halo it by contrast pun intended any other panel Tech is compromised here mini LED does get close although even with Apple's 10 000 mini LED backlight in their latest MacBook Pro machines that doesn't come close to the 8.3 million pixel 4K oleds while you generally don't see much in the way of haloing on that display especially around brighter objects on dark backgrounds it is still there to some degree as for a traditional LCD panels well VA generally fares best here with around a four thousand to one contrast ratio being fairly common by comparison Tien and IPS panels will generally find themselves around a thousand to one meaning that the dark shades are a fair bit lighter than they otherwise should be with black still being just a kind of dark shade of gray as for the color gamut coverage as a general rule IPS panels especially those fitted with Quantum doors generally offer the best range and accuracy here oleds can offer a wide range though aren't always perfectly accurate a VA normally doesn't do too badly with coverage although again can struggle with accuracy and TM well that's at the back of the pack here uh generally offering the least coverage and the worst accuracy viewing angles are generally best on IPS Pals with little to no color shifting or Distortion from any Direction all our panels are generally pretty good for that too although some can have sort of off-axis color shift VA is normally pretty reasonable here although not quite matching IPS most of the time and to Yen well again that's uh that's the worst here the worst feeling and goes more recent panels especially TM panels have done a good job to improve the viewing angles and the viewing experience although often only the side to side viewing experience not from above or below brightness is an interesting one as generally speaking all of the panel options here are pretty much the same when it comes to brightness because they just have a backlight shining through their panels but since oleds are don't have a better place they are the standout here in general lcd-based monitors can offer pretty much any brightness level that they want with the majority that I test ranging from say 300 to 500 is but some can reach the sort of top end models can reach a thousand nits if needed if not more mostly for or in their HDR modes I will add spy contrast can hit a fairly High brightness levels too I mean 800 nits or even a thousand nits for some of the newest ones in a small window is feasible but the brighter they run the more power they draw which is already a bit more than a standard piece of Pano and the hotter they get which diminishes their lifespan that's why models like the aorus fo48u and the twined LG C1 will sit at around just 130 nits of constant maximum brightness across the full screen and then that's light years less than a compare Parable save the VA panel which could happily sit at 3 4 500 nits or more which brings us nicely onto lifespan with oleds in particular an issue they face is called burn it you likely have heard of it where static content things like in-game UI elements or even desktop icons in the windows taskbar can be etched into the display and ever present afterwards well there are a number of features designed to lessen the impact of burning there is a valid concern any prospective buyers may have one of those features is effectively actively wearing all of the pixels down evenly to remove the burned in image with the side effects being reduced lifespan as well you're actively you know damaging the pixels to level or even them out with careful use it is more than possible to keep an OLED display running happily for years but you should know that they are a more high maintenance style and simply don't have the same sort of expected lifespan as a more conventional LCD display finally we should talk about price in general TN panels are the cheapest to produce Although seeing as they're mostly phased out in the market all by the ultra budget and Ultra sort of high refresh rate options it's not likely that you're in the market for one of those displays plus since 360 hours IPS displays are already in the market with products like Asus pg259qm I'd personally much rather get an IPS panel instead there IPS panels are now remarkably cheap even sort of on price parity with VA options while offering generally a much better experience at least in my opinion albeit with those worse Black levels and contrast ratios as for many LED monitors those are still pretty Niche and only found in higher end options so pricing on those is generally On The Higher Side Quantum dots can actually be found for pretty much the same price as any other IPS display including from LG with their nanoi IPs line and even more budget Brands like the x equals monitor are reviewed recently QD OLED monitors are just coming to Market so expect to be paying a premium for those at least for a little while although the more traditional oleds are coming down in price too with the LG C1 TV being available for around a thousand or so pounds or a 6 60 hertz version available for more like 600 which for the size the quality and it being an OLED definitely isn't too bad so which is for you well I can't say for sure I don't know what you're after but let me give you a few thoughts if you're after a well-rounded gaming monitor a nice IPS panel is probably up your alley unless the black levels are a problem for you in which case VA might be a better shout if you want ultra high refresh rates either on IPS or that's the end is probably your Best Bets and if you're a budding content creator well you'll probably want a quantum dot IPS display or even a QD OLED if your budget can stretch to that for a TV replacement an OLED might work well and as more advanced Tech comes out all ads in one form or another may end up spilling into more sectors of actually into every Market which I don't think is a bad thing because personally I love OLED for gaming those instant response times in particular make it a fantastic experience and there's just a sharpness especially to those deep blacks that you get that make you a rather beautiful viewing experience of course your budget will determine kind of how high-end or how low end you need to be in any of those markets and this is only a general idea but I hope that I've given you a bit of an understanding about the different panel types and if you have any questions feel free to leave those in the comments down below I'll leave a couple of links to some monitors that I've reviewed recently those will be Amazon affiliate links that you can take a look at and maybe pick one up yourself if you fancy and if you want to support the channel you can just stay up to date on these videos with the Subscribe button and the bell notification icon you can also check out the YouTube join button where you get some cool rewards and but yeah it's become a YouTube member and all that sort of stuff or you can support on patreon instead if you'd rather you can also pick up a hoodie or a t-shirt like this one or a lot of other designs I made myself and there's 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Length: 15min 17sec (917 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 01 2022