The 10 Best Curved Gaming Monitors

Editor's Notes

September 18, 2020:

Every company included in our previous ranking has since come out with superior offerings, so we wiped the whole slate clean and rebuilt our selection from the ground up. We also added a company to the list that didn't quite make the cut the last time around, with the Alienware AW3420DW, a model with excellent color coverage and an ambient light on the back of its stand that can actually respond to the action on screen to increase your sense of immersion while also giving your eyes a break from the screen's glow if your playing in an otherwise dark room.

Users should consider their preferred graphics cards when looking at these models, as well, as some are designed to work with AMD FreeSync 2, and others with NVIDIA's G-Sync technology, both of which are designed to synchronize the display's refresh rate with the signal they receive from the GPU. That helps ensure your picture is not just smooth, but appropriately smooth for the content at hand, and won't tear on you. The LG 38GL950G-B, for example, is an NVIDIA-compatible monitor, where the massive Samsung QLED CRG9 works with AMD graphics cards.

November 02, 2018:

With a lot of potential features to scrutinize, this list prioritizes refresh rate and response time, though some models climbed higher on the list thanks to certain other features. Chief among those was any kind of eye protection, whether through flicker reduction or blue light filters, like you can see on the Asus UWQHD and the Acer ED273.