The new OLED gaming displays that will be launched this year will take a key step towards clearer and sharper displays. The two major panel suppliers LG Display and Samsung Display have begun to use vertically arranged RGB striped sub-pixel structures in new products to solve the problem of blurred text display that has long plagued OLEDs, especially ultra-wide OLED displays. This means that at the same resolution, the edges of text on the screen will be easier to identify for users in daily office, programming, content creation and other scenarios.
During CES 2026, display manufacturers such as ASUS and MSI have taken the lead in emphasizing this change and promoting it with "Stripe RGB" technology. ASUS will adopt a new generation of RGB striped pixel layout on models such as ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM, ROG Swift OLED PG34WCDN and ROG Strix OLED XG34WCDMS; MSI plans to introduce similar solutions in models such as MEG X and MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36. The panels used in these products mainly come from LG Display and Samsung Display, which are the current core suppliers of high-end e-sports display panels.
Samsung Display announced earlier this month that it has begun mass production of what it calls the "world's first 34-inch 360Hz QD‑OLED panel" and uses its RGB pixel structure named "V‑Stripe". Despite the "V" in the name, this structure actually refers to the sub-pixels being arranged vertically rather than in a true V-shape. Samsung said that this structure can significantly improve the clarity of text edges, making it more suitable for users who need to read and edit a lot of text, such as document processing, code writing and content production.
Samsung Display also revealed that starting from December 2025, it has supplied this type of new panels to seven global display manufacturers, including ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte, paving the way for a wave of e-sports display updates throughout 2026. Prior to this, many ultra-widescreen monitors using QD-OLED were often complained by users in desktop usage scenarios that the text display was slightly blurred. The new structure is expected to fundamentally solve this pain point.
Another heavyweight panel manufacturer, LG Display, announced at the end of last year that it would debut "the world's first 27-inch OLED display panel with RGB stripe structure, 4K resolution, and 240Hz refresh rate" at CES in Las Vegas. Different from the previously well-known "WOLED" (adding additional white sub-pixels to traditional RGB) and the triangular arrangement of pixels, the new RGB striped panel is specially optimized for mainstream operating systems such as Windows and their font rendering mechanisms to improve text readability and color accuracy, while taking into account the picture performance of e-sports games such as first-person shooters.
It is worth noting that the "RGB stripe" displayed by LG Display at this CES is not the only new technology related to "RGB". The company also brought a new generation of stacked OLED solution called "Primary RGB Tandem 2.0". This technology is an upgraded version based on its own "Primary RGB Tandem" technology, which further improves the brightness performance of the entire panel by independently superimposing the three primary color luminescent layers of red, green and blue. In the battle over TV and display technology routes, Samsung’s QD‑OLED relies on quantum dots to improve brightness, while LG is betting on this multi-layer stack structure to make up for OLED’s shortcomings in brightness.
The Primary RGB Tandem 1.0 first installed on the LG G5 TV last year has left a deep impression on the outside world. After upgrading to version 2.0 this time, LG Display claims that it can achieve a peak brightness of up to 1,500 nits in the field of e-sports monitors, and can further push the peak brightness to about 4,500 nits on TVs. Asus revealed that its PG27UCWM monitor will use both RGB striped pixel layout and Tandem OLED panel, but it is not clear whether it has directly used the Tandem 2.0 version.
Taken together, LG Display and Samsung Display are betting on two main lines of technology at this year's CES: one is to significantly improve the clarity of text and details through the vertical RGB stripe pixel structure, especially for ultra-widescreen displays that undertake both office and entertainment tasks; the other is to continue to improve the overall brightness performance of OLED panels through different paths of quantum dots or multi-layer RGB stacking. As the new generation of panels has begun mass production and been supplied to many display manufacturers, the OLED e-sports display market in 2026 will usher in a wave of new product competition with "readability" and "high brightness" as the core selling points.