LG Display Targets Gaming Market with OLED Monitor Panel featuring World's Best Picture Quality

[TheLostSwede]

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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[Onasi]

…as opposed to other companies that target the gaming market with panels that provide the worst picture quality? This is such a meaningless statement, I love marketing people.
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.

 

[wNotyarD]

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.

Wouldn't it scale just the same for 2560x1080 (UWFHD) as 4K for FHD?

 

[Onasi]

Wouldn't it scale just the same for 2560x1080 (UWFHD) as 4K for FHD?

Yup. But in the press release they explicitly say FHD. I guess they might have just phrased themselves poorly or maybe the second res is literally FHD with black bars for e-sports sweats? Anyway, they should have actually given proper resolution numbers instead of relying on abbreviations.

 

[JustBenching]

…as opposed to other companies that target the gaming market with panels that provide the worst picture quality? This is such a meaningless statement, I love marketing people.
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.

It doesnt work particularly well on the 4k ones either

 

[Chrispy_]

WTF, LG? How are you so out of touch with reality? Gamers aren't asking for resolutions beyond 4K, it's hard enough to drive 4K60 for most graphics cards in most modern games. 3440x1440 would make a lot more sense for a high-refresh display like this. Trying to drive 33% more pixels than 4K at 165Hz is comically difficult - A colleague with a 5080 is struggling to breach 4K60Hz in 2024 titles with the eye-candy turned up and gamers buying "5K2K" OLEDs and RTX 5080's aren't the sort of people who will tweak and reduce settings to try and reach a reasonable compromise...

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.

 

[Chomiq]

…as opposed to other companies that target the gaming market with panels that provide the worst picture quality? This is such a meaningless statement, I love marketing people.
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.

From TFTCentral:
"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.

 

[Chrispy_]

and they’re using LG.Display’s latest WOLED panels.

Ugh, text clarity issues from the non-standard subpixel layout, and fake 1300 nits stats that only apply to pure white, which makes it useless for anything other than burning your retinas with glare.

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.

 

[_roman_]

LG = hot air ... My car radio from LG is riddled with bugs. My first smartphone was from LG, bad build quality.

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.

LG Display Targets Gaming Market with OLED Monitor Panel featuring World's Best Picture Quality​

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

 

[Fishymachine]

…as opposed to other companies that target the gaming market with panels that provide the worst picture quality? This is such a meaningless statement, I love marketing people.
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.

It's called TN panel, and if only play esports(Dota, CS2, Valorant), or have a second monitor with a VA/IPS panel, they're good enough nowadays

 

[Onasi]

It's called TN panel, and if only play esports(Dota, CS2, Valorant), or have a second monitor with a VA/IPS panel, they're good enough nowadays

You mean the likes of Zowies new 600Hz model? Yeah. I wouldn’t even say “if you play e-sports”. A well tuned modern 240-360Hz IPS will do just fine for that, even at a highest level. Better yet - an OLED with similar refresh. Those TNs are relevant strictly and only for Tier 1 pros playing on LAN. Buying one for home use is a genuinely dumb idea since they also cost MORE or at least as much as an OLED.

 

[nomdeplume]

Wouldn't it scale just the same for 2560x1080 (UWFHD) as 4K for FHD?

The question is better placed as won't it take low fps max settings 4K up to [<xx] fps in 5K through the magic of fake frames. Because 4K is just not happening with the newest hardware.

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).

 

[TheLostSwede]

LG = hot air ... My car radio from LG is riddled with bugs. My first smartphone was from LG, bad build quality.

Their vacuum cleaners and combo washer/dryers are excellent though.
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.

 

[Space Lynx]

this must use the new tandem OLED technology to be getting that bright, nice, I thought that was still awhile away from being used

 

[Chrispy_]

this must use the new tandem OLED technology to be getting that bright, nice, I thought that was still awhile away from being used

1300 nits isn't that exciting, it'll probably just be the peak white level during HDR and only available at 10% window, and only using the cheaty W subpixels that wash out colour saturation by failing to add any coloured light to the nits rating.

 

[bubbleawsome]

How is everyone missing that this is basically an ultrawide 4k panel? That's why it's such an odd resolution and why it's 45". People have been asking for it (me included), and I'm glad it's finally hitting mass market. I also really doubt it's tandem OLED, other traditional OLEDs from LG are hitting ~1000-1500 nits peak depending on the tech in the panel.
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.

 

[R-T-B]

…as opposed to other companies that target the gaming market with panels that provide the worst picture quality? This is such a meaningless statement, I love marketing people.
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.

It's not for 1440p?

 

[Ryrynz]

Bleh, would rather buy a monitor with ULMB2, massive improvement in motion.. it's like going from 60Hz to 175Hz.

 

[Onasi]

It's not for 1440p?

Not sure if I understand the question?

 

[Fishymachine]

You mean the likes of Zowies new 600Hz model? Yeah. I wouldn’t even say “if you play e-sports”. A well tuned modern 240-360Hz IPS will do just fine for that, even at a highest level. Better yet - an OLED with similar refresh. Those TNs are relevant strictly and only for Tier 1 pros playing on LAN. Buying one for home use is a genuinely dumb idea since they also cost MORE or at least as much as an OLED.

Yes, but FastIPS ofers good colours, and okay contrast. Onasi was talking about "target the gaming market with panels that provide the worst picture quality", which still applies to TN

 

[R-T-B]

Not sure if I understand the question?

I was asking if it downscaled to 1440p instead of 1080p. May have been sleep deprived when I asked that, as that would not change much of anything.

Ignore me.

 

[Veseleil]

"World's Best Picture Quality" - yeah right. Especially by being a curved display that kinda demand close(r) viewing distance, with far from great PPI.

Because 4K is just not happening with the newest hardware software.

Fixed that for you. Current hardware is insanely powerful. It's the software that's not utilizing it properly, especially the graphics APIs. A win-win situation for the HW and software industry, loss for everyone else (us).

 

[bubbleawsome]

Bleh, would rather buy a monitor with ULMB2, massive improvement in motion.. it's like going from 60Hz to 175Hz.

Don't the near instant OLED pixel response times mostly eliminate the need for ULMB2? I know there are a few edge cases, and technically OLED is sample and hold, but at 165hz I can't imagine it's a serious issue.

 

[nomdeplume]

Fixed that for you. Current hardware is insanely powerful. It's the software that's not utilizing it properly, especially the graphics APIs. A win-win situation for the HW and software industry, loss for everyone else (us).

Both games and gpu are in the same hole. Current year tv models are joining the party. Fake frames and fancy terms for spinning $2.5K as midrange or below.

 

[Chomiq]

Don't the near instant OLED pixel response times mostly eliminate the need for ULMB2? I know there are a few edge cases, and technically OLED is sample and hold, but at 165hz I can't imagine it's a serious issue.

Not really:

But BFI on some models can improve that:

Still would take that instead of the ULMB2 from outdated G-SYNC module and all downsides of IPS panels when it comes to black level, contrast and backlight.

Ugh, text clarity issues from the non-standard subpixel layout, and fake 1300 nits stats that only apply to pure white, which makes it useless for anything other than burning your retinas with glare.

This one has the updated RGWB subpixel layout, same as 32" dual mode and 27" 480 Hz:
"The updated RGWB subpixel layout that we’ve already seen on some other recent LG.Display WOLED panels (e.g. 32″ 4K dual-mode, and 27″ 480Hz 1440p) means the monitor improves the readability of in-game text and makes productivity tasks, such as editing documents or website content, that much easier."

PPI is also at around 120.