If you're picking up a new RTX 5080 or 5090 today, then either of these glorious OLED monitors will be a perfect match
Today's the day when Nvidia's new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards, sporting Blackwell GPUs and all the latest AI wizardry, finally hit retailers' shelves. Should be you lucky enough to grab one, you might want to consider treating it to a lovely new monitor, to show off its gaming chops in a pixel-perfect display.
Both graphics cards are fully 4K-capable so it only makes sense to pair them with a high-resolution screen and I've two great examples for you. One's an enormous 49-inch ultrawide whereas the other is a blindingly fast 240 Hz 32-incher, but they're both toting a QD-OLED panel.
Do you want the best? Well, here they are:
MSI MPG 491CQP | 49-inch | 5120 x 1440 | 144 Hz | QD-OLED | 1800R curved | $1,099.99$849.99 at Amazon (save $250)
It was cheaper than this during last year's sales bonanza but it's still a pretty decent price for a monstrously huge gaming monitor, with a luscious OLED display. You can buy a 240 Hz refresh rate version ($1,000 at Newegg) but it's a fair chunk of extra cash.
Price check: Newegg $849.99
Okay, so it's 'only' a 144 Hz gaming monitor that costs $850 but despite that minor niggle, everything else here is sublime. First of all, you've got a Samsung QD-OLED panel with a pixel response time rated to 0.03 milliseconds. That's so quick that you're never going to notice and it'll just seem instantaneous.
As with all such displays, it's not super bright (250 nits on average in SDR) but it's meant to be used in HDR mode for gaming and until you've experienced just what such a display can do for certain games, it's hard to put into words just how amazing OLED HDR really is.
Naturally, a 5120 x 1440 curved display isn't ideal for doing office work but it's super immersive for gaming, though it does depend on how good a game's support for ultrawide resolutions is.
In terms of connectivity, you get one DisplayPort 1.4a and two HDMI 2.1 sockets for PCs and consoles, plus a USB KVM hub to allow you to control two computers with the same
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