The Qd-oled Gaming Monitor That Started It All Got A Big Upgrade

Alienware is taking to this year’s Computex 2026 successful Taipei to denote immoderate cool gaming monitors, astir notably 2 breathtaking OLED options that are coming astatine different points this year. First off, nan institution is debuting nan successor to its very first QD-OLED gaming show from 2022 pinch a refreshed creation and high-end specs that’s coming successful July (price hasn’t yet been shared).

The AW3426DW is simply a 34-inch curved 3,440 x 1,440 solution pinch an 1800R curve, conscionable for illustration its predecessor. But nan caller exemplary has nan latest QD-OLED Penta Tandem surface tech that boosts nan highest brightness to 1,300 nits from 1,000 nit successful nan erstwhile version. Its refresh complaint has been boosted from 240Hz to 280Hz.

Part of nan five-layer Penta Tandem tech is an anti-reflective surface coating that supposedly cuts down glare and boosts heavy blacks moreover successful well-lit rooms. That’s awesome since achromatic sometimes appears purple-ish connected erstwhile QD-OLED generations. Something that hasn’t changed model-to-model is pixel density; this one’s still astatine 110 pixels per inch, which is simply a spot debased for this size (many 27-inch OLED monitors person a akin pixel density).

Alienware’s flagship show of nan show is simply a 39-inch 5K curved ultrawide show coming this autumn that uses LG Display’s fourth-generation Primary RGB Tandem surface tech. The AW3926QW is somewhat curvier than nan QD-OLED exemplary mentioned above, measuring astatine 1500R, making it much immersive. It tin show a highest brightness of 1,300 nits while displaying contented astatine up to 5K astatine a 165Hz refresh rate, pinch a pixel density of 143 pixels per inch. It offers a dual mode to sound nan solution down to 1080p, bumping up nan refresh complaint to 330Hz pinch support for civilization resolutions and facet ratios.

The 2 OLED models person immoderate traits successful communal pinch each other, contempt utilizing different surface technology. For one, some usage RGB stripe subpixels to sharpen matter and different details. Color-fringed matter has been an rumor for immoderate group pinch erstwhile generations of QD-OLED panels, but not arsenic overmuch pinch OLEDs. Both person VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification, arsenic good arsenic Dolby Vision HDR support, and some support AMD FreeSync Premium Pro and Nvidia G-Sync. Also, they’re protected by Alienware’s awesome three-year warranty that covers shaper defects on pinch burn-in coverage, positive enhanced pixel shifting and refreshing algorithms to widen their lifespan.

Despite nan similarities, nan 5K show simply offers much features. It has a KVM move to fto you power aggregate PCs done nan show pinch a azygous keyboard and mouse, positive a USB-C video larboard pinch support for 90W of PD passthrough power. Beyond that, it has 2 HDMI 2.1 ports pinch fixed complaint nexus (FRL) to fto PCs show its afloat solution and refresh rate, 1 of which supports eARC and ARC. It besides boasts a azygous DisplayPort 2.1 larboard pinch accelerated UHBR20 bandwidth. The 34-inch exemplary has 2 HDMI 2.1 FRL ports and a DisplayPort 1.4 port. No value has been announced for nan 5K display, but these features won’t travel cheap.

Finally, Alienware has 2 VA LCD gaming monitors coming successful July for good nether $500. The $399.99 34-inch ultrawide AW3426DWM and nan $299.99 level AW3226DM person respectable specs. Both spell up to 240Hz refresh complaint pinch 1-millisecond consequence clip and show 1440p resolution. They characteristic akin creation connection to Alienware’s higher-end options, and they support Dolby Vision HDR.

It’s bully to person affordable options, though retrieve that Alienware’s entry-level 27-inch QD-OLED show is $399.99, and by quality of its surface tech, offers overmuch amended opposition and colour accuracy than either of these upcoming models. It’s a stellar worth for nan price, arsenic I discovered erstwhile I put my ain money down connected one.