Samsung’s Quantum Dot (QD) OLED technology, has always promised brighter images and purer colours than traditional OLED. But this is the next level, producing a 40% increase in peak brightness. Wowzers.
Its second-generation Quantum Dot OLED (QD OLED) panel still combines a blue OLED with Quantum Dot layers to create the extra red and green sub-pixels, but cranks up the brightness by up to 40% over the S95B to deliver more impactful HDR. Samsung claims it offers a peak brightness of 1,400 nits – which is positively incandescent for an OLED panel.
And the measurements match the marketing claims, hitting 1,400 nits (on a 10% window; 274 nits on a full-field image). That’s exceptional for any OLED TV. The Samsung S95C impresses with its noticeably brighter QD-OLED panel and the use of Quantum Dots also generates colours that are purer, richer and more subtle.
When you combine the S95C’s improved brightness with OLED’s self-emissive