New Msi Mpg 341cqr Qd-oled X36 Review 2026

This MSI is a fantastic demonstration of Samsung's latest QD-OLED tech. The HDR experience is stupendous, the ambient light absorption issue is mostly entirely solved and the subpixel structure has been sorted. It's just needs a few more pixels to be absolutely perfect for both gaming and daily computing.

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Once you've gone OLED, you won't ever want to go back. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to say that about the MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36? To discover that it ditches the usual shortcomings of Samsung's QD-OLED tech while capitalising on all that characteristic OLED goodness, including perfect per-pixel lighting and incredible speed?

Well, there's good reason to think that it might just be a goer. Because this new MSI monitor rocks Samsung's very latest QD-OLED panel technology. MSI is referring to it as "5th-Gen" Samsung QD-OLED, which is news to me. I thought the very latest panel tech from Samsung is Gen 4. Likewise, MSI refers to not only "5th Gen" but "5th Gen Tandem OLED" when describing this panel technology, which leaves me a bit baffled.

"Tandem OLED" has hitherto been a marketing pitch employed by LG, Samsung's main competitor in the OLED panel manufacturing industry, to describe its own latest WOLED technology. Has someone in MSI marketing department gotten a little over excited when it comes to both the 5th-Gen and the tandem thing? Very possibly.

Whatever, another unexpected spec detail, but one that's definitely present, is a move away from the slightly odd triangular subpixel pattern that Samsung has been using in its QD-OLED panels thus far to a more conventional vertical RGB stripe.

QD-OLED panel, adaptive sync, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.1a, USB-C with 98 W PD, USB-A hub

✅ You want the ultimate OLED experience: This new-gen QD-OLED panel tech is almost perfect thanks to stunning HDR performance and revised RGB subpixels.

❌ You want the perfect great all-rounder: This panel's one obvious shortcoming is pixel density. That's fine for gaming, les so for other tasks.

Samsung hasn't quite delivered a totally standard RGB solution, where all three subpixels are exactly the same size and shape, as per pretty much all LCD monitors—the blue subpixel is noticeably smaller, for instance. But the subpixels are arranged in a vertical RGB stripe patter

Source: PC Gamer