Alienware’s New Super Ultrawide OLED Gaming Monitor Might Just Earn Its (RGB) Stripes - IGN

Alienware has announced a new 39-inch, 5K OLED super ultrawide gaming monitor – the AW3926QW – that uses RGB stripe, a new display panel technology that the company says is brighter, with sharper text than your usual OLED, without sacrificing color accuracy or vividness. This RGB stripe tandem OLED panel won’t be unique to Alienware’s new display; other companies like Asus and MSI have also announced displays that use it. RGB stripe’s whole thing is that its subpixels – the reds, greens, and blues that make up each pixel – are vertically-aligned, so should prevent some of the color fringing that an eagle-eyed sort might see on an OLED when they lean in close. Apart from the new panel tech, the AW3926QW will offer up a 1500R-curved, 5,120x2,160 display with 1,300 nits of peak brightness and support for Dolby Vision and screen-tearing prevention features like Nvidia G-Sync, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro. Typical brightness will only be 300 nits, according to the display’s specs shared with IGN. For those who can apparently tell the difference (I’m proud of you. I sure can’t): it peaks at a 330Hz refresh rate at 1080p or 165Hz at full resolution. In other words, specs-wise, this display ha