can never go back... - LG & Dell's 49" 21:9 Monitors Reviewed #Helpful Post

metimes 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 c HD 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 it 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% more pixels that's right

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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 50 120 by 1440

resolution which is the same exact

number of pixels as two 27 inch 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 seven 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 16 by 9 4k

display we're still actually working

with almost a million fewer pixels so

even though they're spread across 49

freakin 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 any

one place like that and around 40 to 50

fps playing apex legends with an RT X

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 20 80 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

need to find another display because

unlike the lower res Samsung from last

year that runs it up to a hundred and

forty-four Hertz

these 1440p models max out at 60 Hertz

although with that set 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 of L 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 c HD 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 of the Dells more flat 3800 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 our Dell 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 well 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 Taipei's that's where you

plug your stuff in to 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 monitors

integrated KVM cool the LG actually

shares these features though but it has

for downstream USB ports a headphone

jack and the only USB port labeled

upstream is the USB C which just like

the USB C on the Dell has DisplayPort

alternate mode and a whopping 90 watts

of power delivery that means you could

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 of crap we

got into the similarities again right so

uh sorry differences 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 Dells 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 a 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 they said

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 144 Hertz model from

Samsung for three hundred and fifty

dollars 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 in the Dell

doesn't but it's gonna cost you it's

gonna be about a hundred and fifty

dollars more when it launches in

mid-april so it's up to you whether the

LG only features are worth is I mean

they're both awesome displays that are

great for productivity and immersive

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