Well put, I agree it is more of a semigloss.
Prior to ordering this LG I spent a week with each of the Samsung odyssey OLEDS; the first gen glossy 160hz(?) 34”, the matte 360hz 27” and the 32” 4k. The combination of the reflections from the gloss in addition to the unavoidable purple glow that plagues QDOLEDS was giving me migraines with the 34” and I couldn’t stand using it.
The 27” and 32” versions have a matte/semigloss coating like the LG’s and I found them to be MUCH better in terms of being able to actually use them for more than 20 minutes at a time before feeling like my head and eyeballs are going to explode. The purple glow problem is still real though, and I would argue that it is worse with matte/semigloss on QDOLED. They cannot/would not display deep inky blacks like the LG WOLEDs do and definitely don’t get as bright on large windows. The ABL on Samsung monitors is also EXTREMELY agressive and causes a severe dimming/flashing effect that completely takes away from the OLED and HDR experience during busy scenes with lots of bright moving objects.
If you haven’t already, download colorcontrol off of GitHub and set up a couple of HDR profiles using the monitors native colourspace, peak brightness in nits, and I would create one for gamma 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6. This really brought my LG to life. An added bonus, if you’re running an AMD card make sure to open adrenaline and navigate to global display settings. You’ll need to turn on custom colour and DISABLE colour temperature control.
I had dual monitor setup and my neck hurted (no I was not sitting too close)
Moved to a g9 OLED 49” 32:9 loved gaming on it but it was just too much to work on
Moved to a G8 OLED 34” I feel it’s the perfect balance between productivity and gaming
I have an RTX 5090 and a secondary Samsung G6 OLED monitor running at 360 Hz.
Honestly, I haven’t noticed any issues with DSC. As far as I understand, on RTX 50-series GPUs this is no longer a problem — everything works fine, including DLDSR 2.25x at 360 Hz.
I’ve now ordered the new 360 Hz MSI monitor you mentioned, and I’m planning to use it with DLDSR 2.25x as well, targeting 5K2K resolution for gaming.
Right now I’m already doing something similar with my Samsung G8 OLED 34", where it works well — but that’s an older panel limited to 175 Hz.
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