RGB is the following massive factor in OLED gaming screens

New OLED gaming screens from prime corporations popping out this yr ought to look clearer and crisper. LG Display and Samsung Display, which generally present the precise panels utilized in gaming screens, are lastly lining up the colours of their subpixels in vertical RGB stripes — bear in mind after we used to fret about Pentile OLED shows? — which suggests, amongst different enhancements, the panels ought to have easier-to-read textual content.

You can see for your self how Asus and MSI are touting adjustments to their upcoming screens with Stripe RGB know-how — for Asus, with the ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM, ROG Swift OLED PG34WCDN, and ROG Strix OLED XG34WCDMS, and for MSI, with the MEG X and MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36:

Both LG Display and Samsung Display goal to enhance textual content readability points which have plagued ultrawide OLED panels particularly. Samsung Display introduced earlier this month that it has began mass manufacturing of “the world’s first 34-inch 360Hz QD-OLED panel” with what it calls a “V-Stripe” RGB pixel construction. The V is a little bit of a misnomer of how the construction is formed; it signifies that the subpixels are in a vertical orientation, not in a V. The construction “improves the clarity of text edges, making it ideal for users engaged in text-intensive tasks such as document editing, coding, or content creation,” Samsung Display says.

Samsung Display has already been “supplying the panels to seven global monitor manufacturers including ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte since December 2025.”

As for LG Display, it announced last month it might be debuting “the world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED panel for monitors featuring an RGB stripe structure and a 240Hz refresh rate” at CES in Las Vegas. While LG Display was beforehand identified for “WOLED,” the place its TVs and gaming screens sometimes have an additional white subpixel, or orienting RGB pixels in a triangular sample, the corporate says the RGB stripe panels are “optimized for operating systems such as Windows and for font-rendering engines, ensuring excellent text readability and high color accuracy” in addition to for offering “optimal performance” in FPS video games.

Perhaps confusingly, “RGB stripe” isn’t the one new RGB display screen tech from LG Display at CES. It’s additionally touting “Primary RGB Tandem 2.0,” which it calls “an advanced version of LG Display’s proprietary Primary RGB Tandem technology, which generates light by stacking the three primary colors of light (red, green, and blue) in independent layers.”

As we mentioned final yr, Tandem OLED (and Primary RGB Tandem OLED particularly) are about dramatically growing the brightness of OLED panels, which has been one in every of their few weaknesses over competing display screen tech. Samsung Display’s QD-OLED panels use quantum dots to extend their panel brightness, whereas LG Display is now betting on these stacks. Asus says its PG27UCWM is each an RGB stripe panel and a Tandem OLED panel, although it’s not clear if it makes use of model 2.0.

For gaming screens, LG Display is promising that Primary RGB Tandem 2.0 will allow “monitor displays that achieve a peak brightness of up to 1,500 nits,” and as much as 4,500 nits for OLED TVs utilizing the tech. We have been impressed by the 1.0 model of Primary RGB Tandem within the LG G5 TV, and we’ll be trying out 2.0 at CES.