Alienware 34 QD-OLED Review: An Ultrawide Showcase For Samsung's Latest Display Tech

It’s far brighter than before, and it can finally handle text without fringing.

Devindra Hardawar for Engadget

RATING : 8.5 / 10

How can you make one of the best OLED gaming monitors even better? By throwing in the latest panel technology from Samsung, of course. That's what Alienware did with its new 34-inch ultrawide QD-OLED screen. It features Samsung's new 5-layer RGB Stripe panel, which uses red, green and blue subpixels to show crisper text and brighter colors. That alone fixes some of the more annoying issues with older OLEDs. Couple it with a brightness boost and a slightly faster 280Hz refresh rate, and it's a recipe for another killer gaming screen from Alienware.

But, it's also been four years since the company's first OLED ultrawide, and the monitor landscape looks far different now. Alienware also launched a 32-inch 4K QD-OLED two years agowith richer color reproduction...

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