If you're picking up a new RTX 5080 or 5090 today, then either of these glorious OLED monitors will be a perfect match

An image of two MSI OLED gaming monitors on a teal background with a white border
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Today's the day when Nvidia's new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards, sporting Blackwell GPUs and all the latest AI wizardry, finally hit retailers' shelves. Should be you lucky enough to grab one, you might want to consider treating it to a lovely new monitor, to show off its gaming chops in a pixel-perfect display.

Both graphics cards are fully 4K-capable so it only makes sense to pair them with a high-resolution screen and I've two great examples for you. One's an enormous 49-inch ultrawide whereas the other is a blindingly fast 240 Hz 32-incher, but they're both toting a QD-OLED panel.

Do you want the best? Well, here they are:

OLED gaming monitors for an RTX 5090 and 5080

MSI MPG 491CQP | 49-inch | 5120 x 1440 | 144 Hz | QD-OLED | 1800R curved | $1,099.99 $849.99 at Amazon (save $250)Price check:

MSI MPG 491CQP | 49-inch | 5120 x 1440 | 144 Hz | QD-OLED | 1800R curved | $1,099.99 $849.99 at Amazon (save $250)
It was cheaper than this during last year's sales bonanza but it's still a pretty decent price for a monstrously huge gaming monitor, with a luscious OLED display. You can buy a 240 Hz refresh rate version ($1,000 at Newegg) but it's a fair chunk of extra cash.

Price check: Newegg $849.99

Okay, so it's 'only' a 144 Hz gaming monitor that costs $850 but despite that minor niggle, everything else here is sublime. First of all, you've got a Samsung QD-OLED panel with a pixel response time rated to 0.03 milliseconds. That's so quick that you're never going to notice and it'll just seem instantaneous.

As with all such displays, it's not super bright (250 nits on average in SDR) but it's meant to be used in HDR mode for gaming and until you've experienced just what such a display can do for certain games, it's hard to put into words just how amazing OLED HDR really is.

Naturally, a 5120 x 1440 curved display isn't ideal for doing office work but it's super immersive for gaming, though it does depend on how good a game's support for ultrawide resolutions is.

In terms of connectivity, you get one DisplayPort 1.4a and two HDMI 2.1 sockets for PCs and consoles, plus a USB KVM hub to allow you to control two computers with the same mouse and keyboard.

MSI MPG 321URX | 32-inch | 4K | 240 Hz | QD-OLED |$919.99 at Amazon

MSI MPG 321URX | 32-inch | 4K | 240 Hz | QD-OLED | $919.99 at Amazon
If ultrawide isn't your thing, then you might as well not settle for anything less than the best 16:9 gaming monitor you can buy right now. It's not in the least bit cheap but it's a truly amazing screen. Read our full review to see why.

Price check: Newegg $949.99

This MSI MPG 321URX is currently our top pick for the best overall gaming monitor and given that our highly experienced display specialist Jeremy has tested more screens than I've had hot meals, you know it has to be special to stand out.

It has a fantastic glossy QD-OLED screen with a 240 Hz refresh rate but so do numerous other top-end gaming monitors. What gives the MSI the edge here is that it's notably cheaper than the competition, without cutting any noticeable corners.

And because it's one of the latest OLED panels around, it's just as good in office and content creation scenarios as it is in gaming. Sure, it's not super bright but that's par for the course.

It doesn't have all-purpose perfect HDR (but no monitor does right now) and its automatic brightness limiting system isn't the best either; one could argue that the design is a little dull, too.

But in the grand scheme of things, none of that really matters, as everything else is so good that we heartily recommend this monitor for anyone who manages to run off with an RTX 5090 today.


Nick Evanson
Hardware Writer

Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in 1981, with the love affair starting on a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and a book on ZX Basic. He ended up becoming a physics and IT teacher, but by the late 1990s decided it was time to cut his teeth writing for a long defunct UK tech site. He went on to do the same at Madonion, helping to write the help files for 3DMark and PCMark. After a short stint working at Beyond3D.com, Nick joined Futuremark (MadOnion rebranded) full-time, as editor-in-chief for its gaming and hardware section, YouGamers. After the site shutdown, he became an engineering and computing lecturer for many years, but missed the writing bug. Cue four years at TechSpot.com and over 100 long articles on anything and everything. He freely admits to being far too obsessed with GPUs and open world grindy RPGs, but who isn't these days? 

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