sometimes high technology really can feel like every time you take two steps
forward you've got to take a step back and that's definitely how i felt when we
reviewed samsung's super ultra wide chd
90 almost exactly one year ago i mean that thing was a sight to behold as wide
and as tall as two 27 inch regular
monitors side by side and it had a 144
hertz refresh rate for gamers was basically the monitor of the future that
is unless you were coming from a future
where high resolution screens were a thing because with a vertical resolution
of just 1080 pixels it was a blurry
dog's breakfast compared to even cheap korean monitors off of ebay but today
we've got some new options both lg and
dell have released their own 49 inch 32
by 9 displays this time with over 75
percent more pixels that's right baby it's 1440p baby the
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the first thing to know when comparing these two monitors is that as far as we
can tell they are using the exact same panel as lg display actually makes
display panels while dell does not but
that's not a criticism because what a panel it is it features a 5120 by 1440
resolution which is the same exact number of pixels as two 27 qhd or 2560
by 1440 monitors side by side but then
of course without gross bezels bifurcating your crosshairs
if you're a gamer it's also over 7 million total pixels which for a lot of
gamers might actually be the sweet spot so on the one hand this brings a
noticeable improvement in image clarity compared to 1080 class displays of this
size almost all of the test users
spotted the upgrade in an experiment that we ran recently which you can check
out up here on the other hand compared to gaming on even a single standard 16x9
4k display we're still actually working with almost a million fewer pixels so
even though they're spread across 49 freaking inches of incredibly
immersive gaming glory this panel is still not quite as hard to
drive as more mainstream 4k displays so
we were able to get 120 to 180 FPS in cs
go full screen max settings not that anyone plays like that and around 40 to
50 FPS playing apex legends with an rtx
2070 now 40 to 50 FPS is certainly
playable but a lot of pc gamers really prefer to have higher frame rates in
their games these days NVIDIA recently even shared a study on the practical
competitive advantage of high refresh rate gaming so our next step then was to
hook up a 2080 ti to this beast
only to be a little bit disappointed
because now our rig has the FPS for a true
pc master race experience but our monitors can't keep up if high refresh
rate gaming is your thing you'll need to find another display because unlike the
lower res samsung from last year that runs it up to 144 hertz these 1440p
models max out at 60 hertz although with
that said we were able to get a stable overclock on both of them up to around
76 hertz which isn't too bad so they're
suitable for sightseeing and non-competitive gamers but i wouldn't
say they're really for hardcore esports players
moving on to productivity though totally
different story 60 hertz is plenty for office work so these monitors are
basically fantastic no like really fantastic you
can easily get three or four Windows
open at the same time and with the
1440 vertical pixels text might not be
the sharpest we've ever seen like on lg's 5k ultra fine but it's still nice
and clear which is important because remember even though it's super wide
you're still likely to end up sitting only about 30 inches away depending on
the size of your desk another difference between this new
panel and the samsung chd 90 is the
tightness of the curve now all of them are curved monitors
because by the time you go this wide it actually does kind of make sense but the
samsung uses a rounder 1800 r curve
compared to the lg and the dell's more flat 3 800 r bend now which one you
prefer is kind of down to how you intend to use it now if you'll always be close
a really tight curve is fine but if you plan to also use your monitor as your
dorm room tv you might prefer the flatter approach especially if you find
yourself watching with friends now as for color accuracy our dell monitor
shipped with calibration literature that we verified in our tests and it's great
we're talking professional level delta ease of less than 2 and 98 coverage of
the srgb color space as for our lg unit
that one was good but not great though we should mention
that ours is a pre-production engineering sample so it is possible
although from our experience with lg not necessarily probable that the retail
ready models will be better calibrated out of the box than ours if nothing else
though ardell here shows us more or less what displays with this panel can be
capable of okay then so by this time we've made our point that these two
monitors share the same panel but we mostly haven't talked about what's
actually different about them so which one is better well most of the
differences have to do with the industrial design the chassis the stand
and the controls for the on-screen display looks wise i'd say it's a coin
flip they both have a plastic back but the dell is gray while the lg is white
so io is a bit of a mixed bag too they both have two HDMI 2.0 ports and a
single displayport 1.4 port but the dell
has a couple more usb ports than the lg
five downstream type a's so that's where you plug your stuff in
two upstream type b's and a very appreciated usb type c by the way you
might be wondering why there are two upstream ports on it at all it's
actually really cool it's so you can connect two computers to this display
simultaneously viewing their output in picture by
picture mode and then controlling them with a single set of peripherals thanks
to the monitor's integrated kvm cool
the lg actually shares these features though but it has four downstream usb
ports a headphone jack and the only usb port labeled upstream is the usbc which
just like the usbc on the dell has displayport alternate mode and a
whopping 90 watts of power delivery that means you can actually dock your macbook
pro to either of these with a single cable which is pretty sweet especially
considering that neither of these monitors have bulky external power
bricks which crap we got into the similarities again
right uh sorry differences uh the lg does offer a few goodies that are
completely absent on the dell first there's the stand which actually swivels
in addition to being able to go lower than the dell and even rotate a little
bit in case your floor isn't level and then again shame on dell's product page
which claims the 4914 dw can swivel
between minus 170 and plus 170 degrees
but it doesn't swivel at all i think they're talking about viewing angles but
that's still wrong second the lg has an ambient light
sensor on the top so the brightness can adjust automatically and it actually
manages to progress in nice gradual steps unlike some tvs that i've seen
which can be pretty jarring and then finally there's HDR
maybe the lg product page says it supports HDR 10 and the toggle is there
in Windows but i mean this is some pretty low level HDR i mean the dell is
a nearly identical product when it comes to the tech specs and it doesn't have it
so i mean i wouldn't be surprised if lg pulled off the vasa display HDR 400
certification by the time it launches and i guess that's better than nothing
but don't buy this monitor if an awesome HDR viewing experience is what you're
after so then if you're in the market for a super
ultra wide should you buy one of these and if so which one
well if you don't mind a lower resolution in exchange for high not to
mention variable refresh rate gaming you're actually still better off with
the 144hz model from samsung for 350
less or maybe the upcoming comparable from rog however if you really value the
higher resolution for work or you're a non-competitive gamer with a machine
that can push this many pixels so then if you're basically like me
then i'd recommend one of these as for which one
i'd love to say go lg straight up actually i didn't even mention it's got
speakers built into it and the dell doesn't but it's going to cost you it's going to
be about 150 dollars more when it launches in mid april so it's up to you
whether the lg only features are worth it i mean they're both awesome displays
that are great for productivity and immersive gaming and games like apex
legends destiny 2 cs go deus ex mankind divided anything that's designed with
super duper wide gaming in mind so
anything but this benchmark which you can clearly tell is super stretched
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