An enviable, color-accurate 34-inch gaming monitor that’s a little pricey, but reminds us how great WQHD 144Hz gaming is.
While pro gamers are going to use flat, small 16:9 screens because they’re the fastest, most colour accurate and consistent screens around – for anyone that actually wants to get the most out of their games, ultrawide curved displays are where it’s at. BenQ’s Mobiuz EX3415R is a 34-inch 21:9 ultrawide gaming display that’s big enough to make you forget any ambitions you had for multi-screen setups. With a curvature of 1900R, this screen is flat enough to keep everything nicely proportioned while still feeling like it wraps into your peripherals to give you a giant and consistent viewing experience. The EX3415R sits at the higher end of ultrawide monitor resolutions with a 3440 x 1440 pixel screen that offers a great balance between clarity and GPU processor demand. There’s only one variant of the Mobiuz EX3415R and while these units aren’t as fast as BenQ’s Zowie TN panels, they still have professional-level sub 2ms GtG response times — which is as good as IPS gets. The Mobiuz EX3415R will set you back $1,000 (£899 / AU$1,599), which isn’t quite as expensive as the painfully pricey LG UltraGear 38GN950 that’s currently at the top of our best gaming monitors page. That said, it’s still up there with the most expensive gaming monitors around. If you don’t already have one, you’ll also want to factor in the cost of a solid GPU to run games on this ultrawide monitor. You’re not just stepping up from 1080p gaming to 1440p, but you’re also adding enough horizontal pixels to make it closer to 4K frame rates. While you’ll get around 60fps averages using 21:9,1440p Ultra settings on most games from a Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080, more demanding titles like Cyberpunk 2077 will only just be playable with this GPU.
