Sony INZONE M10S Reddit Verdict: Great Panel, Troubled HDR

I upgraded from a 1440p IPS LG27GL850 to the Sony M10S about a month ago. I am beyond happy with the purchase ($710 USD at the time) and I think anyone that takes the leap (provided it's in their budget) will be, too.

Those lines will completely disappear after a pixel refresh.

I had to run the pixel refresh twice, but they went away! holy shit so this really was a steal at $198!

Whether you can hit 480FPS is dependent on the games really. Esports titles at lower settings absolutely can push those framerates.

It's OLED and 480hz. A quick Google search shows other models with the same specs are $800-1000.

It's solid as fuck. I haven't shaken my desk like a deranged caveman to test it, but tilting, height adjusting, and oscillating leave the stand firmly planted. Feels like magic.

I do have a Sony M10S and I did use a cable of 80 gbs certified 2m — glitches everywhere even if I installed the latest firmware. Mouse glitches, white boxes, flickers, etc. Then I tried the HDMI 2.1 since I use a 7900xtx, even worse after 1 hour. I was losing my mind cause it's a 1000$ monitor. Then a thought came to my head: use the god damn cable that comes with the monitor.

PC Mag has amended their review to less than 1ms.

I've tried several 1440p OLED monitors and this Sony had by far the worst VRR flicker.

RTINGS gave it a 9.2/10 for PC Gaming. 'The Sony INZONE M10S is remarkable for PC gaming. With a high 480Hz refresh rate, it's a fantastic choice for most PC gamers, and it supports any VRR format to reduce screen tearing.'

Should go away with a pixel refresh, absolute steal. You might still notice a type of banding on grey which is pretty common for OLEDs but it's not usually an issue.

The dp2.1 on the m10s isn't a full bandwidth dp2.1 anyways, it's still very bandwidth limited. You're going to have DSC of some kind no matter what cable you use, but luckily it's going to make basically no difference.

Still prefer the Sony because it has a non-kiddo design.

I honestly found the visuals in general to be really blurry in all modes, especially since I became accustomed to the clarity of my UCDM. The first few matches, I couldn't see ANYTHING. I suspect the coating and subpixel layout are to blame. I'm going to stick with glossy QDOLED for now. I returned this monitor.

No BFI option that I have been able to spot.

Honestly a shame this panel is only released in matte coatings. Won't even bother.

That looks amazing. Hopefully they drop down in price soon here, 1,3k€ is expensive!

I thought I got a steal for $700!

Personal usage had me experiencing bad VRR flicker and annoying ABL. The motion tracking is good. Brightness is pretty standard for OLEDs. Colors are good. Should you buy this monitor? Imo, no. Is this still a good deal? Technically yes.

Yes I love it.

I have the same monitor for 3 months now and I have zero issues with it. I am using the provided DP Cable that comes with the monitor and an HDMI 2.1 certified cable. HDR, SDR, VRR works. The only issue is that VRR flickers, but this happens on all OLED monitors on dark scenes and during loading times.

Same reason I like the Sony better. Very minimal design, matte black all around, no RGB.

I am looking at the Sony for the Best Buy warranty. I do feel Sony makes a good product, but the execution on this panel seems to favor Asus.

Be aware the 1300 nits is for 1.5% of the windows screen size. In games, bright highlights are typically larger, so you'll get anywhere between 400-600 nits before clipping occurs.

I got super lucky and found an open box - excellent at BB for an absolute steal. After reading the write-up, I think it's absolutely worth the drive.

The Sony is appealing because Best Buy sells it and their 4-year protection plan is handled locally at the stores.

I have both pg32ucdm for all round hands down. But just gaming sony m10s.

I went from the msi qd to this m10s and the eyestrain is day and night for me, text is WAY better on the woled.

Could have bought the same panel for half the price by taking the LG 27GX790A-B.

HDR on this monitor is still kind of broken, even after the update. It clips at 400 nits when it should normally reach 1300 nits.

Design-wise, it's a really beautiful monitor — super sleek and clean. Quality-wise, the screen is buttery smooth. I mainly play FPS games on it, and I use it at 1080p for competitive play, so I get 300+ FPS in every game. For more story-driven games or watching movies, I switch to 1440p and it still looks amazing.

I tested both 4K and 1440p, and 4K wasn't really a 'wow' factor for me. 1440p feels like the sweet spot — it's sharp, and I can see well. I could also settle for 1080p since resolution isn't that important to me, but refresh rate definitely is.

I do pixel refresh every 2 weeks but panel refresh I would advise you to avoid it and only do it if you have burn in, but for my part it's been 8 months and I haven't got any burn in.

It came in yesterday. I absolutely love it!

I'm having the EXACT same issue and setting the monitor to DP 1.4 worked for me. So I wonder what the real issue here is, the monitor or the drivers? or both?

I just got a 5080 and I've been wracking my brain on why it kept getting no signal. I went through two different 5080s and countless troubleshooting. Seems the Inzone m10 and 5080s are having compatibility issues. Who knows when it'll be patched.

I had the same issue with my 5080 and M10S, temporary solution is to run the monitor at DP 1.4 in the monitor settings. Hopefully this gets resolved soon.

I resolved this issue by changing output color depth to 8 bpc vs 10. It's in the nvidia control panel under display -> change resolution. No issues for me after this.

Yes, with later firmware update m006 the signal issue was resolved.

I've had mine for 2 months and I get random black screens, like if the monitor loses signal, goes black then Sony logo. I haven't been able to solve this, tried different cables and settings don't seem to help. I've also started noticing dark spots around the middle of the screen in certain shades of gray not sure if it's OLED burn. Honestly not proud of this purchase.

I really don't know what Sony was smoking dropping the monitor with HDR in such a bad state. The second I turned HDR on I knew it was broken, not even a side by side was needed. And the camera doesn't really do it justice, in person the difference is so much more noticeable.

Auto switching between inputs is rather slow — I've tested 3 M10S units and they all did the same thing, especially off a cold boot. It will skip my 5 second BIOS post even when setting the input to static DP. Annoying but livable as the performance and aesthetics outweigh the delay.

Same issue here with m10s and 5080. The issue disappeared for a while when I installed a new CPU, then a day later it came back. Tried everything on DP 2.1 and nothing worked out. Don't want to go back on DP 1.4, since DSC gives me a long lag when tabbing out in CS. Hopefully NVIDIA or SONY can see this and fix it soon.