After 3,000 hours and two years, OLED monitor shows only minor burn-in
Details reported by Pcgamer note burn-in is the one big worry with OLED monitors, but evidence that it shouldn't be a dealer breaker for gamers is approaching critical mass thanks to another long-term assessment. Optimum has been using an LG UltraGear 32GS95UV monitor for a wide range of uses, from gaming to content creation.
The panel was set between 80% and 100% brightness depending on the time of day, with no aggressive measures taken to alleviate burn-in besides running Windows in dark mode and autohiding the taskbar; all panel protection settings were left in default mode. Using a dark grey full-screen image to assess the damage, Optimum found very, very faint burn-in: a light mark in the bottom left from Overwatch's near-white health bar and a few other very slight areas visible only under forensic inspection.
Overall full-screen brightness fell from 262 nits when new to 258 nits now, which is not subjectively noticeable.