u/KakashiTheRanger

Hi there. I see a lot of pictures here comparing OLED monitors to uncalibrated IPS or VA panels. Often, these posts are accompanied by misinformation regarding panel quality and accurate color representation.

I can't correct all of this myself, but I do want to share some personal results taken with a calibrated camera. Both monitors are using calibrated profiles intended for accurate colors and a white point at 6500k. The monitors in question are the PG27AQDP from Asus and the Samsung Odyssey G50F.

I've intentionally taken dark shots for reference. On predominantly white backgrounds, the calibrated profiles make the displays look almost identical. However, the dark shots reveal the differences in contrast and black levels. I want to leave the final verdict up to the community, but I will note that in my testing, this Samsung IPS panel struggles slightly with yellows and reds, while presenting very striking blues and purples.

In any case, if you read all the way through, thank you for your time and I hope you all have a wonderful day!

EDIT: It appears Reddit clamped my upload resolution. Not sure why that happened. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix that it would be greatly appreciated!

So I've been using Linux in general for quite a long time and recently (about 4 months ago) hopped over to Bazzite. + KDE. I have HDR set up in KDE already and it looks great there but I seem to have a consistent issue with HDR in gaming. Particularly when launching from steam. I use the following special launch options:

`PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 DXVK_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 %command%`

When I boot into game with HDR enabled on my monitor and in KDE the game generally looks pretty good, however, as soon as I enable HDR in game, it appears washed out and colors are no longer vibrant.

Is the Enabling HDR command requesting the HDR output from the game even though the slider isn't enabled and I'm double tone mapping the game? Any comments or help would be appreciated.

Proper Comparison: Low End IPS vs OLED

HDR Settings Mistakes?