What's the best ultra-premium OLED monitor for PC gaming?

At Digital Foundry HQ, OLED monitors are like buses - you don't see any for ages and then three come at once. Today we're taking a look at one 34-inch QD-OLED, the £1149 Philips Evnia 34M2C8600, and two 27-inch W-OLEDs, the £982 LG 27GR95QE and £920 Corsair Xeneon 27QHD240. Can any of them compare to the £1400 45-inch Corsair Xeneon Flex, and which is the best option for immersive or competitive gaming in the ultra-premium monitor space? All three have their features and flaws, but at the end of the day I have a clear preference...

Let's start with the Philips model. Part of their Evnia brand announced last year, the 34M2C8600 is a 34-inch ultrawide model with a familiar 3440x1440 QD-OLED display and 175Hz refresh rate that mirrors the Alienware AW3423DWF we currently recommend as the best ultrawide gaming monitor.

As it's based around the same Samsung QD-OLED panel, we'd expect similar performance - but the design is surprisingly different here, with a silver colour scheme, the use of recycled materials and a curved back panel constructed from a series of regular squares. The ambient lighting here is the biggest functional addition, something that Philips is known for on their TVs, and it works marvellously here too, with options for mirroring the contents of the screen, producing a rainbow effect and so on. The design is therefore still quite gamer-y, but in perhaps a more subtle way than the Apple-made-a-spaceship effect of the Alienware design.

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