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Tom's Guide
6 days ago
- Tom's Guide
LG Display starts mass production of world's brightest and fastest OLED gaming panels
LG has announced the production of some exciting new panels that could be the future of gaming monitors, although they won't be released to the general public for a while. The company has announced that it'll start mass production of its 540Hz Gaming OLED panel in the second half of this year, and it has already begun manufacturing its super-bright screen. "OLED monitors are rapidly expanding their market share thanks to perfect black levels and fast response times — capabilities fundamentally unattainable by LCD monitors," said Hyeon-woo Lee, Head of the Large Display Business Unit at LG Display. The company describes its display breakthroughs as the "triple crown." LG Display is pushing the limits of brightness, refresh rate and response time, all of which could lead to an enhanced PC gaming experience. The first panel, and the one that's already entered mass production, is all about pushing the limits of brightness (while still offering well-rounded specs across the board). According to LG Display, the 27-inch OLED monitor panel offers a peak brightness of 1,500 nits. It utilizes the firm's fourth-generation OLED technology, known as Primary RGB Tandem (which the company announced a few months ago), to achieve this enhanced level of brightness. Bumping the brightness is intended to increase the contrast ratio, which in turn allows it to produce more vivid images. Outside of the absurd brightness, the display will also offer a 280Hz refresh rate and a color reproduction rate of 99.5%, which is the highest among OLED panels. Another key feature of this new panel is an almost glare-free experience. It is supposedly designed to block 99% of internal and external light reflections. There's meant to be no color distortion, even under lighting conditions of 500 lux, which is approximately the brightness of a living room in broad daylight. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. LG also announced a speed breakthrough that will allow it to make a 540Hz monitor with a QHD resolution, a first in the OLED space. Whether you need a 540Hz refresh rate is another issue, but the fact that LG managed to pull it off is impressive either way (especially for gamers who enjoy fast-paced games like first-person shooters). Both the 540Hz display and the super-bright one above feature an industry-leading response time of 0.03 milliseconds, further enhancing the speed offered by the company's next-generation OLEDs. "With proprietary technologies like fourth-generation OLED and DFR, which competitors cannot replicate, LG Display will enhance its competitiveness in the premium monitor market and deliver differentiated value to customers," LG Display's Hyeon-woo Lee continued. While these monitors sound exciting — and they are — it's important to remember that bleeding-edge tech like this doesn't come cheap. OLED monitors already cost more than others, and an OLED with 1,500 nits or 540Hz is going to push the price barrier even further. I say this to remind you that these monitors aren't for everyone, but for gamers who want the best monitors available, these might just be the right choice. Time will tell how much these sell for, but with LG already starting production on the incredibly bright one, we should know more about the 27-inch screen soon enough. Will these make the cut as among the best monitors? We'll see.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Yahoo
LG's new 45-inch 5K2K uber OLED monitor goes into mass production and will land soon on a desk near you. For $2,000
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Back at CES, we reported on the new LG UltraGear 45GX950A. It's a 45-inch OLED gaming monitor with a 5K2K resolution that promises much better pixel density than previous large-scale ultrawide gaming monitors based on LG's OLED panel tech. Now LG has announced the UltraGear 45GX950A has gone into mass production. While there's no news on a precise availability date, it's good to hear the monitor is now being built at scale. There's been a tendency in recent years for large time delays between new high-end monitor announcements and actual on-sale dates, but it seems like this won't be the case for the 45GX950A. As for specs, LG still hasn't dished all of the details. Our last report covered the 5,120 by 2,160 pixel resolution and 125 DPI pixel density. That's much better than a 108 DPI 1440p 27 incher, but not quite on par with, say, a 32-inch 4K monitor, the latter coming in at around 140 DPI. Meanwhile, it's miles better than the awful 80 DPI of existing 45-inch ultrawide OLEDs with 3,440 by 1,440 pixels. LG also mentioned the usual 0.03 ms response at CES, along with 165 Hz refresh. To that we can now add 1,300 nits peak brightness, presumably on a three percent window. LG added that the monitor will also offer a 330 Hz FHD mode. That actually means 2,560 by 1,080 and thus no black bars either side of the panel. Frustratingly, LG still isn't quoting full-screen brightness or expanding on the generation of OLED panel in the 45GX950A. If the monitor used fancy new tech with much improved full-screen brightness, we suspect LG would be shouting about it. For that reason, we suspect it will make do with LG's existing 3rd Gen WOLED rather than the new, much brighter panel tech announced at CES. LG has said that this new technology, known as Primary RGB Tandem, "will gradually be applied to monitors," but didn't put a time frame on that process. Primary RGB Tandem reorganizes the existing 3-Stack structure of two blue layers and a single red, green, and yellow layer in existing WOLED panels into a 4-Stack structure made up of four layers featuring two blue elements and independent layers of red and green elements. Image 1 of 2 Image 2 of 2 LG claims, "this significantly improves screen brightness, color reproduction, and energy efficiency." Again, it's not absolutely clear that the new 5K2K LG UltraGear 45GX950A doesn't benefit from this, but sadly we do not believe that to be the case. Nevertheless, the 5K2K 45-inch form factor sounds like a fantastic high-end solution for both gaming and general computing. So, we can't wait to get our hands on one. Watch this space. As for the sordid matter of money, the fixed-curve 45GX950A has an MSRP of $1,999. There's also a bendable 45GX990A model that hasn't been priced up. But that sports motors to adjust the panel curve between flat and a tight 900R, so bet on something like $2,500. Best gaming monitor: Pixel-perfect high refresh rate monitor: Screaming 4K monitor for gaming: High-res 4K TV for gaming: Big-screen 4K PC gaming.
