Dell IPS vs. Alienware OLED - HDR shootout.
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2024
- Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (U4025QW) next to an Alienware 32 4K QD-LED Monitor (AW3225QF) side-by-side in daylight and at night displaying an HDR clip on each to compare, plus black background to show the difference. Note that only in true "pitch black" with them side by side do you notice the IPS not being perfectly inky black. Basically any brightness on either display causes your eyes to turn the IPS "black" by contrast.
Also of note - both displays were in VBR mode - 60 Hz max for the IPS, 120 Hz max for the OLED. (My M1 Max system only lets one be above 60 Hz at a time.)
Shot on iPhone 13 Pro in 4K 30fps HDR ProRes, edited and output in ProRes for upload. - Наука та технологія
What do you think of the sharpness and clarity of the text? Compared the QLED and IPS Panel. And what do you think about the response times in comparison (especially a possible Input Lag on the IPS Display)?
And yes, I have a strip of black electrical tape sealing the "seam" between the two displays so they don't get out of alignment on my multi-arm monitor mount. The tape is _ever so slightly_ narrower than the two displays bezels combined, so it doesn't block the display at all, while being nearly unnoticeable.
Maybe considering this exact purchase haha
Do you know whether you can achieve a daisy chain using a single usb c cable from a laptop to the U4025QW and then one to the AW3225QF DP port? The U4025QW supports 5k2k 120hz across two so long as the host endpoint has DSC and thunderbolt 4
Daisy chain works great. That’s my primary use with both my personal and work laptops - One Thunderbolt 4 cable from laptop to Dell U4025QW’s “Thunderbolt in” port, then an 8K-capable USB-C-to-HDMI cable from the Dell’s “Thunderbolt out” port to one of the Alienware’s HDMI ports.
I don’t have a laptop capable of 240 Hz output, so I can’t test that part, but I can run both at 120 Hz native resolution with HDR in Windows that way. macOS is… not the greatest at it. It will let me run one of the two at 120 Hz, but not both.
Edit: Aha! My Intel MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro 5500M *IS* capable of 240Hz in Windows. While I can enable 240Hz on the Alienware in daisy-chain mode, it then limits the Dell to 60 Hz. If I put the Dell at 120 Hz first, 120 Hz is the maximum the Alienware shows. So I can’t have both at their max, one of them has to be limited. In macOS, I can set both to variable refresh rate, but 120 Hz max no matter what. (I don’t think macOS supports 240 Hz at all.)
I always get annoyed by local dimming regions on monitors causing that obnoxious vertical or horizontal region of the display which is lit up but should be fully black. MicroLED helps with that but OLED really takes the cake. Love OLED as a tech, and wish to see it continue to improve and become more affordable.
Yep, I wish the ultra wide had been available as an OLED, but it was already twice as much as the OLED for only 1280 more horizontal pixels, at 1/2 the maximum refresh rate.
Think you meant MiniLED helps with that. MicroLED would theoretically be the best.
@@hisfatness522 you're right. Thanks!
Hi there!
I am currently looking at these exact Screens to decide which to get.
My profile is Office, about 8h/day and Gaming, about 3/4h (not every day but when I am on the PC, I’ll either game or work- movies are watched elsewhere!).
I am a fan of ultrawides, currently on a 34” curved LG with 120hz in UWQHD - I always wanted to make the jump to 4k/5k.
My fear with the Dell would be that it’s too blurry even at 120hz as I tend to play shooters and more importantly that the color distortion/glow of the eyes different viewing angles will annoy me as I am very sensitive to this after a failed buy some time ago- I tend to notice that a tiny little bit with my current IPS as well.
My gripes with the Alienware (or the models from MSI/ASUS/GIGABYTE) OLED would be that with so much office use everyday It’ll burn in somewhere eventually, that the slightly fuzzier text display with OLED might annoy me when I notice it and that it’s a traditional 16:9 format when I am already accustomed to 21:9.
It’d be an immense help if you could recall your experience with gaming (especially fast paced games, I play games like CS:Go2 / Helldivers / Cyberpunk / Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen) on the Dell Ultrawide - if you find it lacking or annoying - and if you notice the glow / or annoying viewing angle behavior with it. Blacks aside- these two points are crucial for me!
As far as the Alienware OLED goes, it’d be great to know if you notice the fuzziness/blurriness of text display and if you’d recommend getting a curved version of the panel or rather if you had just one display on the table- a flat version of it, as I am tending to go with the ASUS flat version if I can decide to go OLED!
I’d say that the Dell would work great for your use case. Plenty dark when not directly compared to an OLED. It has a very light curving, and has great off-axis viewing, so I see no color distortion from my viewing spot. I don’t tend to play “fast twitch” games that much, I’m flight sim and RTS mostly; but some quick CS:Go and Fortnite with the kid were perfectly acceptable.
On the Alienware, I do use it for text during the day, although I use “light text on dark background” mostly, and have had no noticeable fuzziness. I went with the curve (the Alienware is more curved than the Dell) because of flight sims - to get a nice wraparound effect. (I do one wide window across both monitors, so that the center point is on the right hand side of the ultrawide; it’s one reason I went with both a 16x9 and an ultrawide, to make sure the center point wasn’t on the gap between monitors.)
@@AnonymousFreakYT Thanks for your assessment! I went with the Dell - which is unfortunately a little wait until it arrives at the dealer :-)
As I am mainly using the screen for work I simply can not give up screenspace 😻
Hey,
I'm a programmer and spend all my days in front of a black terminal with text on it. I want a new screen for that and you have exactly both the screens I was eyeing ! Which of the two would you pick for that ? Oled would be cool for the blacks, and the other one for everything else
I am a dark mode person, and spend a of my day staring at black text terminals, so I'm with you there.
I think the ultrawide LCD does a great job at that.
Would you say the IPS panel has a much sharper display for productivity work and spreadsheets (my use case). I'm VERY happy with my Dell U3423 I just picked up - thing is amazing!
I wouldn’t say “much” sharper - 4K 32” OLED is plenty sharp. But the IPS definitely has a slight edge for text.
I wouldn’t say “much” sharper - 4K 32” OLED is plenty sharp. But the IPS definitely has a slight edge for text.
@@AnonymousFreakYT cool so would you say the 4025 is your primary monitor while using the 32 oled as a supplementary monitor?
@@BLR653 That would be accurate, yes.
I prefer the pitch black monitor on the right, the left monitor greyish black is annoying to me
Some of that is my phone over-compensating for the dark, it’s really only noticeable when both displays are showing pure black. In actual use, and especially if it isn’t night in a dark room, I can’t tell them apart.
Nothing annoys me more than a monitor or TV with crushed blacks and extremely bright whites, especially in HDR mode. Greyscale tracking is much more important than 'absolute blackness'. I couldn't care less if the blacks are 'pitch black'; I'd much rather have accurate, linear, greyscale tracking from white to black so detail in dark areas can be clearly seen instead of being crushed down to nothing. HDR is still not a mature feature since manufacturers tend to calibrate their TV's and monitors to crush the blacks in default HDR profiles, which is disappointing. They think people want blinding brightness and zero detail in the dark areas. They think that's how you impress and 'wow' people. It's not. Accuracy is what we want. Factory calibrated monitors and TV's is what we want.
Both of these came with factory calibration report sheets in their boxes. A couple gradient tests show great reproduction across the range of grays, but the real test is dynamic difference. In that pitch black, is 1% actually 1% of the way to brightest? If most of the screen is at 50%, are small sections of 5% and 95% actually there, and not both blown out to 0 and 100? I haven’t tested those fully, but “gut feel” they seem to be good.
Here you go, here's a display that is the polar opposite: pixelfed.pdx.social/p/AnonymousFreak/674320121880262979
OLED really the only way to go for video or game content I feel. But for browsing the web or working on documents etc, kind of the opposite in a lot of cases as text is clearer on IPS and you don't have to worry about burn in. The burn in issue not as bad as it used to be but still something you need to be aware of with so many static ui elements when doing daily computing tasks
Miniled is good too
Not anymore with the new Msi Qd Oled baby
@@DianeFoxxx I wish haha, but it is getting closer
Hey! thanks for the Videos, could you check if the monitor has some sort of Adaptive Sync like Freesync or G-Sync? :)
The Alienware has G-Sync and VESA AdaptiveSync, the Dell has none.
Hey, are you sure about that? in an other Video it got confirmed G-Sync Compatible, also the Product Info says it has some sort of Adaptsync.
@@w4nted324 I don't have a G-Sync video card, so can't confirm, but it appears the Dell UltraSharp just has "VRR", which…. might very well be the same thing without Nvidia trademarked naming.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just connected to a G-Sync video card, the Alienware OLED lets me enable it. The Dell IPS doesn’t.
@@AnonymousFreakYT The monitor also supports variable refresh rate via AMD FreeSync Premium and NVIDIA G-SYNC Compatible over DisplayPort, as well as HDMI 2.1 VRR.
Although it doesn’t have any official certifications by AMD or NVIDIA, VRR works without issues for tear-free gameplay up to 120FPS.
Does the dell monitor have a glossy finish or is it matte finish
It’s matte.
ive been eyeing that dell black ips, not so much anymore...
I will say, these tests were designed to show the maximum difference between the two - and it is being compared to a “true black” OLED. In normal use, it’s the blackest black I’ve ever seen in an LCD. And in all but a fully darkened room with ultra-dark content, it’s even hard to see the difference between it and the OLED.
@@AnonymousFreakYT ah okey, maybe i have to see it for myself before i decide
Its not a shootout, its a knife at a 100 yard gun fight.
indeed, comparing apples and oranges...🤦♂
what movie BTW?
Blade Runner 2049
I have a dell with matte coating and also the alienware. The Dell is disgusting to me now. :D
at least start the video at the same time man ...
Msi Qd Oled better noobs
It’s the same panel. Alienware is using the same panel as MSI, for the same price. And since I wanted curved, the Alienware was the only option.
@@AnonymousFreakYT ok but Qd Oled gets way brighter than normal Oled panels
@@DianeFoxxx Both my IPS and my OLED (which is a QD OLED) can reach over 600 nits. Which is more than plenty bright, even in my brightly lit home office during the day.
same panel mate, no difference
ewww IPS, VA, LCD/LED... once you go OLED you never go back...
Miniled
@@tazboy1934 miniled is LCD/LED
MiniLED is a joke compared to OLED in every scenario that isn't a full screen high APL scene and even then....
@@tazboy1934let me guess you got an mini led and now you are mad😅😂 because Qd Oled gaming is King
If an ultrawide 2160p >100Hz OLED had been available, that would have been my choice. But it isn’t, so I went with the IPS. (No matter what, I was going to do an ultrawide plus a 16x9. I wanted only two displays, and I wanted “center of the two” to *NOT* be the seam. In my setup, the visual center is firmly on the ultrawide.)
Unfortunately, as soon as my new gaming PC arrived, I left on a business trip until next weekend, so I got to play a couple games for a couple hours and won’t be back for a bit. I’ll do a new video of the complete setup when I get back showing them in gaming action.
The Dell IPS is amazingly high quality, though. For text, photos, video, and even gaming, it’s essentially a perfect equal to the Alienware OLED. Its zone dimming is good enough that a small white box on a pitch black screen barely has any bloom due to the lighting, even during HDR content playback. True, it isn’t the same as OLED, but it’s the best LCD I’ve ever had for this.
In a few years when I can get a 240Hz 5760 (or wider) x 2160 OLED, sure, I’ll get that. But this’ll do me for at least 5 years.