Tuesday, February 18th 2025
LG Display Targets Gaming Market with OLED Monitor Panel featuring World's Best Picture Quality
LG Display, the world's leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it has officially begun mass production of a 45-inch Gaming OLED monitor panel with ultra-high 5K2K resolution. By producing the world's highest-resolution Gaming OLED panel, the company is seeking to seize the growth potential of the high-end gaming display market.
This product not only features key gaming monitor specifications such as top-tier resolution, refresh rate, and response time, but it also delivers perfect black levels in any environment, providing the ultimate gaming experience.
With a higher resolution allowing more precise image and video quality, a 5K2K resolution (5120×2160) consists of approximately 11 million pixels. This is over five times the pixel count of a FHD panel (1920×1080) and about 1.3 times that of a UHD screen (4K/3840×2160). Professional monitors, which require greater accuracy and detail for tasks such as graphic design and video editing, typically feature UHD resolution.
LG Display's 45-inch 5K2K resolution Gaming OLED panel also boasts the highest brightness among all OLED monitors, reaching 1,300 nits. The higher the brightness, the more enhanced the contrast ratio, delivering a three-dimensional viewing experience that feels as if you are watching scenes in person. Additionally, a gaming-specific polarizer has been applied to minimize glare and light reflections, helping to achieve those perfect blacks wherever the monitor is placed.
Moreover, it offers an innovative gaming experience with LG Display's proprietary Dynamic Frequency & Resolution (DFR) technology. This means users can freely select between high refresh rate (FHD∙330 Hz) and high resolution (5K2K∙165 Hz) modes depending on the content.
When users select high refresh rate mode, they can enjoy fast-paced games in genres such as FPS (first-person shooter) or racing with smooth, uninterrupted gameplay at 330 Hz. Choosing high resolution mode allows them to experience the vivid realism and stunning graphics of 5K2K picture quality, enhancing games, movies, and various other content.
It also offers innovative customer value through its differentiated form factor. With a 21:9 aspect ratio and a large 45-inch screen, it provides an immersive gaming experience while being ideal for performing multiple tasks at once, similar to using a dual monitor setup. The 21:9 aspect ratio, akin to a cinema screen, is additionally optimized for watching content streamed via OTT platforms.
As well as delivering perfect blacks and three-dimensional picture quality, the self-emissive pixels of LG Display's Gaming OLED panels emit half the amount of blue light as LCD screens, which rely on backlights. They are also free from the flicker that can cause headaches and various issues among viewers of other panels. Such advantages reduce the impact on the body during even extended gaming or content viewing sessions.
LG Display's strategy is to target the rapidly growing high-end gaming display market with its proprietary technologies and a full lineup of Gaming OLED panels ranging from 27 to 45 inches.
"We will innovate all the values that customers desire in gaming monitors, such as picture quality, form factor, and refresh rate, to provide a differentiated customer experience and strengthen our technology leadership," said Won-seok Kang, Head of the Large Display Product Planning Division at LG Display.
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This product not only features key gaming monitor specifications such as top-tier resolution, refresh rate, and response time, but it also delivers perfect black levels in any environment, providing the ultimate gaming experience.
LG Display's 45-inch 5K2K resolution Gaming OLED panel also boasts the highest brightness among all OLED monitors, reaching 1,300 nits. The higher the brightness, the more enhanced the contrast ratio, delivering a three-dimensional viewing experience that feels as if you are watching scenes in person. Additionally, a gaming-specific polarizer has been applied to minimize glare and light reflections, helping to achieve those perfect blacks wherever the monitor is placed.
Moreover, it offers an innovative gaming experience with LG Display's proprietary Dynamic Frequency & Resolution (DFR) technology. This means users can freely select between high refresh rate (FHD∙330 Hz) and high resolution (5K2K∙165 Hz) modes depending on the content.
When users select high refresh rate mode, they can enjoy fast-paced games in genres such as FPS (first-person shooter) or racing with smooth, uninterrupted gameplay at 330 Hz. Choosing high resolution mode allows them to experience the vivid realism and stunning graphics of 5K2K picture quality, enhancing games, movies, and various other content.
It also offers innovative customer value through its differentiated form factor. With a 21:9 aspect ratio and a large 45-inch screen, it provides an immersive gaming experience while being ideal for performing multiple tasks at once, similar to using a dual monitor setup. The 21:9 aspect ratio, akin to a cinema screen, is additionally optimized for watching content streamed via OTT platforms.
As well as delivering perfect blacks and three-dimensional picture quality, the self-emissive pixels of LG Display's Gaming OLED panels emit half the amount of blue light as LCD screens, which rely on backlights. They are also free from the flicker that can cause headaches and various issues among viewers of other panels. Such advantages reduce the impact on the body during even extended gaming or content viewing sessions.
LG Display's strategy is to target the rapidly growing high-end gaming display market with its proprietary technologies and a full lineup of Gaming OLED panels ranging from 27 to 45 inches.
"We will innovate all the values that customers desire in gaming monitors, such as picture quality, form factor, and refresh rate, to provide a differentiated customer experience and strengthen our technology leadership," said Won-seok Kang, Head of the Large Display Product Planning Division at LG Display.
19 Comments on LG Display Targets Gaming Market with OLED Monitor Panel featuring World's Best Picture Quality
Anyway, that dual resolution feature on this panel seems… weird. It worked well on the 4K ones because of the perfect scaling. 5K2K doesn’t have this luxury, so that 1080p 330Hz mode will look noticeably off.
Gamers want low input lag, and a regular RGB subpixel layout so that text doesn't look like garbage, because we use our monitors for more than just gaming.
"they have a higher 5120 x 2160 (or “5K2K”) resolution. That’s been combined with a 165Hz refresh rate here as well and they’re using LG.Display’s latest WOLED panels. They also support a dual-mode function allowing you to drop to a 2560 x 1080 resolution but double your refresh rate to 330Hz for faster gaming."
So it's UWFHD.
The benefit of HDR is richer, more vibrant colours without looking oversaturated, and since the W subpixel cannot help with that at all, the entire point of WOLED is dumb, IMO. Give me QD OLED, please - even if the triangular pixels still give fuzzy text, at least the HDR doesn't look like washed-out, artificially brightened rubbish.
I think LG's OLEDs look great in SDR and HDR that isn't too strong, but once you need all the nits that LG claim their panels delivery, the image quality goes to hell.
LG will for sure have no problem to sell me for 130€ a 27" WHQD calibrated monitor with DELTA E smaller as 0.2 with a factory calibration sheet, right? Best picture means it has to beat my current monitor which is below delta E smaller 1 with factory calibration sheet per device sold.
I want LG to write on their homepage. DELTA E smaller as 0.2 on each of those "world best picture quality monitors". I also expect more as the usual 5 years warranty. I expect at least 8 years warranty.That is a television but not a gaming monitor, especially with the low DOTS per Inch for that size.: 45-inch Gaming OLED monitor panel with ultra-high 5K2K resolution
2K's (XXXX x 1440) transition to 5K (XXXX x 2880) aligns better across technical stuff going on in the background with console, PC, and most other uses (screencasting etc).
My first Android phone was LG and it was perfectly fine, but that was a long time ago.
Their TV's are way better than Samsung, especially on the software side of things.
Also, note that the press release is about display panels, not finished displays, as the press release is from LG Display, not LG Electronics which makes finished consumer goods.
I also used to be entirely on the QDOLED side of the argument, and while they do look noticeably better they seriously aren't great for bright room viewing close up. On a TV I never really noticed it, but as a monitor in a brightish room with a window with closed blinds behind me the QD glow was bright and obvious. Especially in games that have large areas of dark on screen the glow jumps vs the bezel and probably about splits the difference between my VA monitor at its darkest and a WOLED with its pure blacks. I don't think I'll consider a QDOLED monitor until samsung fixes that, if it can be fixed.