This 39-Inch OLED Ultrawide Monitor Doesn’t Sacrifice Clarity for Size
The AW3926QW has an RGB stripe tandem OLED panel produced by LG. At the moment, it’s one of just two ultrawide monitors to offer the panel, which is also available from LG’s UltraGear Evo GX9. I recently tested the 27-inch Asus PG27UCWM, another RGB Strip OLED that I was impressed by, but it's a standard 16:9 aspect ratio rather than ultrawide. RGB Stripe OLED panels use a different sub-pixel array to produce better color performance at high brightness and sharper text.
The AW3926QW is bright for an OLED monitor. It quotes a maximum SDR brightness of 300 nits, which my testing confirmed. HDR, meanwhile, is quoted at a peak brightness of 1,300 nits. I didn’t manage to hit that, but I did record a peak brightness up to 1,011 nits, which is at the upper end of what the best OLED monitors can deliver.
Color performance is excellent. The...
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