RGB is the next big thing in OLED gaming monitors

New OLED gaming displays from major companies coming out this year are supposed to look sharper and crisper. LG Display and Samsung Display, which typically provide the actual panels used in gaming monitors, have aligned their subpixel colors in vertical RGB lines — remember when we used to worry about Pentile OLED displays? – Which means, among other improvements, that panels should contain easier-to-read text.

You can see for yourself how Asus and MSI are promoting the changes in their upcoming displays with Stripe RGB technology – 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 aim to improve text legibility issues that plague ultrawide OLED panels in particular. Samsung Display announced earlier this month that it has begun mass production of “the world’s first 34-inch, 360Hz QD-OLED panel” with what it calls a “V-Stripe” RGB pixel architecture. The V designation is a bit of a misnomer for how the structure is formed; It indicates that the subpixels are in a vertical orientation, rather than a V-shape. The structure “improves the legibility of text edges, making it ideal for users engaged in text-intensive tasks such as document editing, coding, or content creation,” says Samsung Display.

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

As for LG Display, it announced last month that it would debut “the world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED panel for displays featuring an RGB stripe structure and a 240Hz refresh rate” at CES in Las Vegas. While LG Display was previously known as “WOLED”, with its TVs and gaming monitors typically having an extra white subpixel, or orienting RGB pixels in a triangular pattern, the company says its RGB strip panels are “optimized for operating systems such as Windows and for font rendering engines, ensuring excellent text readability and high color accuracy” as well as providing “optimal performance” in FPS gaming.

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

As we discussed last year, Tandem OLED (and basic RGB Tandem OLED specifically) dramatically increases the brightness of OLED panels, which was one of the few weaknesses of competing display technology. Samsung Display’s QD-OLED panels use quantum dots to increase panel brightness, while LG Display is now betting on these combinations. Asus says the PG27UCWM is both an RGB strip panel and a Tandem OLED panel, though it’s not clear if it’s using version 2.0.

For gaming displays, LG Display promises that its RGB Tandem 2.0 core technology will enable “displays that achieve peak brightness of up to 1,500 nits,” and up to 4,500 nits for OLED TVs that use this technology. We liked version 1.0 of the Primary RGB Tandem in the LG G5 TV, and we’ll be testing version 2.0 at CES.