Alienware’s New Super Ultrawide OLED Gaming Monitor Might Just Earn Its (RGB) Stripes

Alienware has announced a caller 39-inch, 5K OLED ace ultrawide gaming show – the AW3926QW – that uses RGB stripe, a caller show sheet exertion that the institution says is brighter, with sharper substance than your accustomed OLED, without sacrificing colour accuracy oregon vividness.

This RGB stripe tandem OLED sheet won’t beryllium unsocial to Alienware’s caller display; different companies similar Asus and MSI person besides announced displays that usage it. RGB stripe’s full happening is that its subpixels – the reds, greens, and blues that marque up each pixel – are vertically-aligned, truthful should forestall immoderate of the colour fringing that an eagle-eyed benignant mightiness spot connected an OLED erstwhile they thin successful close.

Apart from the caller sheet tech, the AW3926QW volition connection up a 1500R-curved, 5,120x2,160 show with 1,300 nits of highest brightness and enactment for Dolby Vision and screen-tearing prevention features similar Nvidia G-Sync, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro. Typical brightness volition lone beryllium 300 nits, according to the display’s specs shared with IGN. For those who tin seemingly archer the quality (I’m arrogant of you. I definite can’t): it peaks astatine a 330Hz refresh complaint astatine 1080p oregon 165Hz astatine afloat resolution. In different words, specs-wise, this show has a fig of legs up implicit the MSI MPG 491CQPX QD-OLED, IGN’s favourite ace ultrawide astatine the moment.

The AW3926QW volition besides person a built-in KVM power for controlling aggregate connected computers with a azygous rodent and keyboard pair. There volition beryllium a fewer ports connected the back: 1 DisplayPort 2.1; 2 HDMI 2.1 (one with eARC support); a 10Gbps upstream USB-C larboard with 90W powerfulness output, on with a 5Gbps USB-B upstream larboard and a 5Gbps USB-A downstream port. Another 5Gbps USB-A larboard and 5Gbps USB-C larboard volition beryllium connected the underside, straddling a 3.5mm headphone jack.

In summation to its fancy caller OLED ultrawide, Alienware besides announced the AW3426DW, a 34-inch, 280Hz QD-OLED, 3,440x1,440 solution gaming display. It’s the follow-up to the AW3425DW from past twelvemonth (which is already IGN’s favourite curved gaming monitor), and it bumps up a fig of specs. Peak brightness volition beryllium 1,300 alternatively of 1,000 nits; refresh complaint hops to 280Hz from 240Hz; and its HDR TrueBlack standing is present 500 alternatively of 400. Its curve volition besides beryllium tighter, astatine 1500R versus the existent one’s 1800R. Alienware didn’t denote its pricing (the erstwhile exemplary was $800), but says the show volition beryllium disposable successful July.

Alienware did stock pricing for 2 different caller displays: a $399.99 34-inch exemplary (AW3426DWM) and a $299.99 32-inch 1 (AW3226DM). They’ll some connection a 240Hz refresh complaint and VA panels, with a respective 3,440x1,440 resolutiion and 2,560x1,440 resolution. Both volition beryllium retired successful July, arsenic well.

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge. Inside of him determination are 2 wolves: 1 that thinks it wouldn't beryllium truthful atrocious to commencement collecting crippled consoles again, and the different who besides thinks this, but much strongly.