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This monitor supports the fastest refresh rate and response time as of Dec. 2022, 240Hz refresh rate and 0.03ms, among the OLED gaming monitor. The video shown for illustration purpose only. Actual effects of features may vary due to contents and each mode. Features: 98.5% DCI-P3, adaptive sync, 1x DisplayPort 1.4, 2x HDMI 2.1, 1x USB Type-C, 1x USB 3.0, optical port, remote, HDR10, PiP
Samsung Odyssey OLED G95SC August 4, 2023 The new 49″ super ultrawide G9 screen from Samsung, this time with a 240Hz refresh rate QD-OLED panel and 5120 x 1440 resolution
Incredible Speed, OLED 240Hz Refresh Rate
The 27GR95QE boasts 2560x1440 resolution, 240Hz refresh rate, and 0.03ms response time. The screen covers 100% sRGB and 98% DCI-P3, while offering it at 200 cd/m2 standard brightness with infinite contrast ratio (thanks to the OLED technology). At all brightness levels in SDR, there is no need for the screen to use ABL, so you get a consistent brightness level no matter what your content is. That’s great news on an OLED panel as it’s annoying to see changing brightness as you move windows around or look at different content where ABL is used. A lot of fuss has been made about the screen being “dark” but that isn’t really a problem for office and general uses in our opinion, not unless you’re using the screen in a very bright room or are simply used to having a very bright LCD monitor pumping out 300 nits+. It’s perhaps more of an issue for gaming and video where maybe you want a brighter screen or use the screen from a further viewing position. Text Clarity and Sub-pixel structure The LG 27GR95QE monitor has a high 240Hz refresh rate, which when paired with OLED’s instantaneous pixel response time speed results in incredible motion clarity without any ghosting or pixel overshoot. There are then two cleaning cycles, “image cleaning” which takes 10 mins to run, and “pixel cleaning” which will take 1 minute. It’s the “image cleaning” that is the more common and frequent minor cleaning cycle, despite being the longer to complete. The screen will prompt you to run these periodically anyway after certain amounts of usage time (4 hours of use for image cleaning and 500 hours of use for pixel cleaning), and will run the cycle when the screen is in standby so as not to disrupt your usage.
The bezels surrounding the OLED panel may not be the narrowest I’ve ever seen, but they only measure 8mm at the sides and 10mm at the bottom, so I’m not complaining. All up weight is 7.35Kg with the stand accounting for 2.3kg of that. We will not go too much in to potential concerns around lifespan of the OLED panel, colour shift, dark spots or image retention/burn-in here. You can read our OLED Displays and the Monitor Marketarticle for more information about those potential issues. As a desktop monitor if you are going to use the screen for many hours per day, some of these things might become an issue in time. In our fairly short period of time testing and using the screen we noticed no issues in any of these areas. The LG 27GR95QE has a 2560×1440 screen resolution, which results in a pixel density of 110.84 PPI (pixels per inch) on the monitor’s 26.5″ viewable screen. You get plenty of screen space as well as sharp details and text without having to use any scaling. HDMI-VRR is supported thanks to HDMI 2.1 from both consoles. ALLM is unfortunately not supported, and although the input lag will be consistent across all preset modes (the main reason for this setting is to turn a TV in to its game mode for lower lag), it could have been useful if it had switched to a gamer preset mode, as opposed to perhaps your normal working mode like sRGB or a calibrated preset.
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Regardless, these issues will happen over hundreds and hundreds of hours of playing the same kind of content, so don’t worry about it too much…just a little.
The Screen Saver function seems a sensible one to leave turned on, as it will turn the screen off if it detects no change to the image for an extended period of time. We never saw this happen unnecessarily during any normal usage, even on pretty static desktop applications. It worked as intended in our usage when we left the screen alone fully. This is also the first sensible monitor-sized OLED panel released (with a high refresh rate above 175Hz which was the previous max) and is bound to attract a lot of interest. It’s 27″ panel (well, 26.5″ to be precise) offers a common 2560 x 1440 resolution, a wide colour gamut with 98.5% DCI-P3 coverage quoted, and even support for hardware calibration. Being OLED it’s well placed to handle HDR content with its per-pixel dimming, and it has a quoted 1000 nits peak brightness spec. This is made possible through the use of LG.Display’s latest generation “META” OLED technology, including MLA (Micro Lens Array), which you can read a lot more about here if you’re interested. Given how great the OLED panel looks, the UltraGear OLED 27 makes a very strong argument that more resolution isn’t always better. And paired with the high refresh rate, it looks fantastic.Colour accuracy of wide gamut Rec.2020 content was very good overall. With a moderate 73.3% coverage of this very wide colour space possible, the largest errors came in pure red and green, which is typical for any HDR display really. Colours and skin tones looked accurate though and this was a good factory setup for HDR accuracy. Original Firmware Testing for Gamer 1 and Gamer 2
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