When it comes to buying a monitor, the good news is that it has never had much choice, which has numerous options for all types of use from productivity to material creation to gaming. The problem is that all this choice can make it difficult to decide what is better for your specific needs and budget.
In this guide we can help you make this decision and help you tell which factors are the most important, whether they are color accuracy, size, aergonomics or refresh rate. We used this information to collect the above selection, including our own monitor review options, to help you meet your needs.
The table of content
Best monitor for 2025
Factors to consider before buying a monitor
Type of panel
The cheapest monitors are still TN (twisted pneumatic), which are strictly for the use of gamers or office. VA (vertical alignment) monitors are relatively cheap, while offer good brightness and vice versa. However, content creators will find that LCD, IPS monitor (switching to aircraft) provides better color accuracy, pixel density, image quality and viewing angles.
If more and more brightness is important, there is a quantum dot LCD display way – they are usually found in large display. OLED monitors are now available and offer excellent calls and colorful production, but they lack LED or quantum dot display brightness. In addition, they are expensive. The latest type of Old Monitor, known as the QDO Elder from Samsung, is now common in the gaming monitor. The most notable advantage is that it can be too bright, with recent models a thousand nits+ peak brightness is hit.
Minerals are now widely used in high -end display. They are similar to quantum.com, but as the name suggests, it uses small LED diodes that are only 0.2 mm in diameter. In this way, manufacturers can pack three times more in LEDs with more local dimming zone, deep calls and vice versa.
Screen size, resolution and shape of display
Where the 24-inch display were less or less standard (and can still be useful for basic computing), 27-, 32-, 34- and even 42-inch display have become popular for entertainment, content creation and even gaming these days.
Almost every monitor used to be 16: 9, but now it is possible to find 16:10 and other more foreign display shapes. On the gaming and leisure aspect, we are also looking at the curved and the ultra -wide monitor with a proportion like 21: 9. If you decide to buy an ultra -wide display, however, keep in mind that 30 inches 21: 9 models are like a 24 -inch monitor, so you can end up with less than your expected display.
A 4K monitor is almost almost for content creators, and some people are even going on the whole route up to 5K or 8K. However, keep in mind that you will need a beautiful powerful computer with a decent graphics card to run all these sharp pixels. And the 4K resolution should be paired with screen size 27 inches and more, or you won’t feel much difference between 1440p. At the same time, I will not find a model larger than 27 inches unless it is 4K, because if you are working close to the display, you will start to see the pixels.
To consider is a new category portable monitor designed to carry and use with a laptop. They usually come from 13-15 inches to 1080p resolutions and sizes. They usually have a lightweight kick -stand -type support that connects things to keep things compact.
hdr
HDR increased entertainment and gaming – but be careful before jumping. Some monitors who claim HDR on their marketing content are not even compatible with base standards. To ensure that to deal with at least HDR sunglasses, you would like to choose someone with a display HDR rating with each level representing the maximum glow in NITs.
However, the lowest display DHDR 400 and 500 degrees can frustrate you with brightness, washing calls and modest colored reproduction. If you can afford it, the best monitor to choose is a model that has display HDR 600, 1000 or real Black 400, real Black 500 and Troy Black 600.
Where television usually offers HDR10 and Dolby Vision or HDR10+, most PC monitors support only HDR10 standards, in addition to a few (very expensive) models. This does not matter much of content creation or gaming, but HDR streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and other services will not take so much nest. In addition, the best gaming monitors are usually supportive of HDR600 (and more) instead of a material creating material with some exceptions.
Refresh rate
Refresh rate is an important feature, especially on the gaming monitor. Nowadays there is a minimum of 60 hits, and the rate of refreshing rate of 80 hits and more is very easy on the eyes. However, most of the 4K display is top out with some rare exceptions in 60Hz and HDMI 2.0 speculation only supports 4K on 60Hz, so you will need a minimum display port 1.4 (4K to 120Hz) or HDMI 2.1. The latter is now available on several monitors, especially on the gaming display. However, its support is only the latest NVIDIA RTX 3000- and 4000-series, AMD RX 6000-series GPUs.
Inputs
There are basically three types of modern display input: thunderbolt, display port and HDMI. Most of the monitors made for the PC come with the latter two, while the selected few (usually made for Mac) will use the Thunderbolt. The USB-C ports may be Thunderbolt 3, and by extension, according to the display port, so you may need USB-C from a thunderbolt or display port cable adapter in terms of your display.
Color a little bit deep
Creative content creators should consider a more expensive 10 -bit monitor that can show billions of colors. If the budget is a problem, you can go for an 8 -bit panel that can make billions of colors fake by fake (often specified as “8 -bit + FRC”). For entertainment or business purposes, a regular 8 -bit monitor that can show millions of colors will be fine.
Color play
The other side of the color is. This shows the limits of colors that can be re -produced and not only the number of colors. These days, most good monitors can cover SRGB and Rick.709 Games (designed for photos and videos). Further demanding work, you will want one who can reproduce most of the demanding modern aspects, such as Adobberg, DCI-P3 and Rec.2020 Games, which contain a wide range of colors. The latter is often used for film projection and HDR, respectively.
This article was originally published on Enoget
