New panels from LG Display and Samsung Display will have easier-to-read text thanks to vertical RGB stripes. New OLED gaming monitors from leading companies coming out this year will look cleaner and sharper. LG Display and Samsung Display, which usually supply the actual panels used in gaming monitors, are finally aligning their subpixel colors to vertical RGB stripes, which means, among other improvements, that the panels will have easier-to-read text.
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You can see for yourself how Asus and MSI are pushing the changes in their upcoming displays with Stripe RGB — 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 are aiming to improve the text sharpness issues that have particularly plagued ultra-wide OLED displays. 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 structure. The structure “improves the sharpness of text edges, making it ideal for users engaged in text-intensive tasks such as document editing, coding, or content creation,” Samsung Display says.
Samsung Display has already supplied the panels to seven global display manufacturers, including ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte, starting in December 2025.
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As for LG Display, it announced last month that it would showcase “the world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED panel for displays with an RGB stripe structure and a 240Hz refresh rate” at CES in Las Vegas. While LG Display was previously known for “WOLED,” where its TVs and gaming monitors typically have an extra white subpixel, or the placement of RGB pixels in a triangular pattern, the company says that its RGB stripe panels are “optimized for operating systems like Windows and for font rendering engines, ensuring excellent text readability and high color accuracy,” as well as providing “optimal performance” in FPS games.
Perhaps confusingly, “RGB strip” isn’t the only new RGB display technology from LG Display at CES. It’s also promoting “Primary RGB Tandem 2.0,” which it calls “an advanced version of LG Display’s proprietary Primary RGB Tandem technology, which creates light by stacking the three primary colors of light (red, green, and blue) in independent layers.”
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For gaming monitors, LG Display promises that Primary RGB Tandem 2.0 will enable “displays that achieve peak brightness of up to 1,500 nits” and up to 4,500 nits for OLED TVs that use the technology.
