CES: LG Introduces OLED Display Tech Designed for Gaming
January 8, 2024
Display manufacturers are giving gamers a big OLED push this year. That means faster refresh rates, a big plus when it comes to action titles, including sports. Samsung has a 32-inch OLED monitor that delivers 4K at 240Hz and 27-inch QHD OLED monitors and panels that clock at 360Hz. LG Display, providing tech to third parties — has debuted a 1440p panel said to be the fastest OLED yet. LG Elecronics’ own UltraGear 32 OLED is the company’s first to use dual refresh technology and has a .03ms response time, processing 4K at 240Hz and 480Hz for 1080p.
Experts say the tech will soon be popping up in high-end gaming monitors. The Verge proclaims the 480Hz refresh rate “the fastest in OLED displays so far,” and says the technology “puts LG Display on track to compete with the panel recently announced by Samsung’s display arm, which offers a slightly lower 360Hz refresh rate and a 1440p resolution.”
The Samsung tech is already being used in that company’s 27-inch Odyssey OLED G6 game monitor, “and it looks like MSI and Dell may be using it in forthcoming monitors as well,” per The Verge.
LG Display says in a press release that its new gaming OLEDs “emit the lowest level of blue light in the industry and approximately half the amount emitted by premium LCDs.” It does this by using the company’s proprietary META Technology, which incorporates something LG calls a Micro Lens Array (MLA) “to maximize the emission of organic light from the OLED panel and minimize external light reflections during darker scenes.” The result is said to minimize eye fatigue and eliminate flickers.
Tom’s Hardware points out that the new LG Display OLED panel has “the same 0.03ms response time as its outgoing OLED gaming panels,” indicating LG has made it a point to push the envelope in gaming monitors. Tom’s adds that while LG’s 480Hz Ultragear gaming monitor sports most of the same specs as the outgoing 27GR95QE it succeeds, the difference is in the refresh rate, which “is twice as fast on the 480Hz panel.”
Tom’s says “this new panel will close the gap on competing gaming monitors in the ultra-high refresh rate range like the 540Hz Asus PG248QP, and give gamers the best of both worlds, a high refresh rate combined with a very responsive and high-quality panel.” Until now, gamers have had “to choose between the two with the best OLED gaming monitors peaking at 240Hz while traditional LCDs can be found at much higher refresh rates like 300Hz, 360Hz, and 540Hz.”
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