[sblantipodi]

It seems that WOLED surpassed QD-OLED.

https://rog.asus.com/monitors/27-to-31-5-inches/rog-strix-oled-xg32ucwmg/

WOLED seems to consume less, it’s more brighter, wider gamut.

Is there any reason to buy a QD-OLED for someone searching for the best possible 32 inch 4K OLED now?

[PCM2]

It’s an excellent question. As it happens I’m currently using and testing the ASUS XG32UCWG (165Hz variant) and I can say that it does still have some issues that QD-OLED doesn’t have. The screen surface is significantly more reflective (worse anti-reflective properties), but doesn’t lighten up in brighter conditions in the same way as QD-OLED. The 4th Gen ‘Primary RGB Tandem WOLED’ TrueBlack glossy panels used in the high refresh rate QHD models (e.g. ASUS XG27AQWMG) are supposed to be less reflective than their ~32″ counterparts without the ‘Primary RGB Tandem WOLED’ technology. But still more reflective than QD-OLED.

The ‘Primary RGB Tandem WOLED’ technology improves colour gamut so it’s beyond QD-OLED (not true for the XG32UC(M)G ) and slightly improves colour volume for HDR, but it still falls well short of QD-OLED in that department. It’s unable to properly show a shade as both bright and saturated at the same time. Because despite its name, which has nothing to do with the subpixel arrangement, it relies on the usual WOLED white subpixel with RGWB layout. There are still fringing issues which I personally find more noticeable than what you’d see on QD-OLEDs. WOLED monitors also have DSE (Dirty Screen Effect) issues which QD-OLEDs don’t or certainly not to the same degree, where patches of solid shade (usually dark greys show it clearly) can have clear patchiness and striations.

So QD-OLEDs have some catching up to do in some areas, but WOLED isn’t outright better in all respects even with the very latest iterations of the technology.

[sblantipodi]

few lines, so informative, thanks, as always!

I can’t understand why “the internet” is reviewing the XG32UCWMG as the best 32″ 4K OLED monitor…

[Erroll]

I had held off buying into the current gen of qd-oled because of the dimming issue, that seemed like something that would bug me. The primary tandem woled seemed a way to avoid that problem and get pretty close color. I noticed that issue was not mentioned at all above.. is it a relative non-issue in real world gaming?

I hope you get one of the 280hz WOLEDs in for review!

[PCM2]

Hi Erroll,

Assuming you’re talking about the dimming of medium shades in brighter scenes with QD-OLEDs, it’s definitely an issue. And the common way to get around it causes over-brightening elsewhere instead. It’s mentioned in our QD-OLED reviews as I do feel it’s an issue worth mentioning that doesn’t apply to WOLED and certainly wouldn’t apply to Primary RGB Tandem OLEDs unless the monitor manufacturer completely messed up the PQ EOTF tracking. 🙂

No doubt we’ll be reviewing at least one of the new 280Hz models!

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