Summary
Corsair delivers a really good monitor that convinces me in all areas. First and foremost the lavish features – especially the large number of USB ports. In addition, there is the good HDR, a good factory calibration for sRGB, you get access to all white point settings in the OSD, the workmanship is also ok – except for the materials, which feel a bit cheap. The three-year warranty including burn-in and zero dead pixels is also commendable. You have to give Corsair credit for that. At this point, let’s draw a balance between the Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 and the Xeneon 34WQHD240-C and it looks like this:
Everything in gray is more or less a draw, or rather the differences are negligible. Green and orange highlight the differences between the two. The Corsair Xeneon 34WQHD240-C naturally scores the most points where the 240 Hz comes into its own. Both can do G-Sync, with or without a certificate. In the end, the Corsair has more USB ports including a KVM switch. On the other hand, the Samsung scores points with its smart functions, hardware calibration and good speakers.
Conclusion
The Corsair Xeneon 34WQHD240-C QD-OLED is a very good ultrawide monitor that impresses with its 240 Hz refresh rate. Unfortunately, you currently have to pay up to 600 euros more than for the Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 (34″). For this completely exaggerated surcharge, the bottom line is that you get 65 Hz more refresh rate, which results in a latency improvement of up to 4.1 ms and a KVM switch. However, you only get the slightly better latency and slightly better motion performance if you send a constant 240 FPS to the monitor. Difficult!
In my opinion, you should save yourself the money and rather buy the Samsung or the Philips Evnia 34M2C8600 QD-OLED – the Philips also has a KVM switch and currently costs “only” 620 euros. The Philips also invalidates the argument that a white monitor is more expensive to produce – unfortunately mimimimi doesn’t count here. The Corsair Xeneon 34WQHD240-C is happy to be cited with an RRP of 800 euros, this surcharge could still be justified somehow. But 1,150 euros – that is clearly too sporty and will be very difficult to sell!
If you have enough money in your pocket, you’ll buy a good monitor – that’s a fact. But unfortunately, anyone who does this has no idea about the price/performance ratio. Anyone who buys the monitor at this price is supporting Corsair’s pricing policy. And that’s what I have to accuse Corsair of at this point. It seems to me as if the prices in the USA are set at random or by rolling the dice. Sorry, but that had to be said so openly. I call it a total misjudgment of prices on the market. I couldn’t identify anything about the Corsair Xeneon 34WQHD240-C that even remotely justifies the current price.
The monitor was provided to me by Corsair without obligation – for testing purposes. There was no influence on the tests and results. There was also no compensation for expenses and no obligation to publish by Corsair or anyone else.
Update on the Philips Evnia 34M2C8600:
What lasts a long time will hopefully be good…
Quote 22.11.2024:
“We’re sorry that you’ve had to wait so long. But now we can finally give you feedback on the Philips Evnia 34M2C8600 and your findings on HDR EOTF tracking, which have contributed to product improvements in our customer’s production units. Not least thanks to your feedback, the HDR functions have been optimized in the latest production, which is even more in line with the expectations of professional users.
Here are two key points:
– This improvement is implemented during production and is not available as a user-installable firmware update.
– Previous production models met all specifications at the time of release. The improved HDR EOTF tracking with peak brightness was not a feature of the previous production, but was added in response to feedback for the new production.”
Too bad there won’t be a FW update for the existing models. Nevertheless, I think it’s good when manufacturers listen to feedback from my colleagues Tim Schiesser (Hardware Unboxed) or Simon Baker (TFTCentral), or even from me little light, and improve something. The “new” model has been ordered and should arrive in January – stay tuned.
- 1 - Introduction, Features and Specs
- 2 - Workmanship and Details
- 3 - How we measure: Equipment and Methods
- 4 - Pixel Response Times
- 5 - Display Latencies
- 6 - Color-Performance @ Default Settings
- 7 - Direct Comparison and Power Consumption
- 8 - Color-Performance calibrated
- 9 - HDR-Performance
- 10 - Summary and Conclusion
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