Should You Buy a Sony PC Monitor?

Sony is well known for its camcorders, TVs, digital cameras and headphones.

If you are wondering how Sony PC monitors compare to other brands, our guide below collates all the key info in a single place. We've compared over 4,500 PC monitors by objectively and impartially analysing over 200,000 user and expert reviews and over 3,800 awards from hundreds of different review sites.

Sony are recognised for their good selection of premium and moderately popular PC monitors and start at $120 for the LMD-941W which has a display diagonal of 9" and is a PC monitor that has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) and go up to $13,661 for the LMD-X310MD which has a display diagonal of 31" and is a PC monitor that has a resolution of 4096 x 2160 (DCI 4K). The average price of a new Sony PC monitor is $3,469.

Is Sony the Best PC Monitor Brand?

So are Sony PC monitors any good? We give every PC monitor a Kagoo Score by analysing its specs, reviews and prices and comparing this to its competitors. By aggregating this data across all PC monitors we are able to impartially rank all the PC monitor brands.

Our detailed analysis taking into account all of the above factors found that Sony is the 27th best PC monitor brand out there.

Let's look at how Sony PC monitors compare to the other PC monitor brands across each of the key facets that make up the Kagoo Score.

When it comes to energy efficiency the average annual running cost of Sony PC monitor is $43 (based on a person typically using a PC monitor for 8 hours per day), which makes them more efficient than most other PC monitor brands.

There's a smaller selection of Sony PC monitors available compared to other PC monitor brands, with only 12 Sony PC monitors currently on the market in the US. Sony PC monitors also tend to be more expensive than most other PC monitor brands making them a less popular choice with consumers.

How Many Industry Awards Have Sony PC Monitors Received?

After checking thousands of expert review websites we couldn't find any industry awards for Sony PC monitors. The table below shows the number of awards received by the most popular PC monitor brands. The largest number of awards provided by each review source is highlighted in green.

Compare all award winning PC monitors

Number of Awards	AOC	Asus	Benq	Philips	LG
	23	22	21	17	19
	28	28	6	18
	20	13	12	9	11
	11	20	13	7	12
	26	19		17
	11	19	2	12	3
	13	13	8	7	1
	8	9	14	2	4
	8	12	11	3	3
	14	9	5	7	1
	14	7	8	5	2
	10	10	11	2	3
	6	16		7	3
	16	1		13
	3	3		1	21
	16	1			10
	6	2		7	10
	10	7	4	2	1
	11	4	4	5
	4	9	7	2	1
Other Expert Sites	386	468	211	136	115
Total	644	692	337	279	220