The monitor also supports hardware calibration and comes with the LG True Color application, allowing you to store two calibrations on the monitor itself without having to rely on ICC profiles. Design & Connectivity A lot of gamers have been waiting a long time for 27″– 32″ sized high refresh rate OLED gaming monitors and for most of them, the wait is now finally over with the LG UltraGear 27GR95QE-B! Image Quality Moreover, the screen is exceptionally thin and has ultra-thin bezels on all four sides of the screen. It has a light 35% haze matte anti-glare coating which prevents reflections without adding too much graininess to the image. Ergonomics Information about the ergonomic functions - height adjustment, swivel angles, tilt angles, etc. VESA mount Updated 8/3/23 –There is a very low lag on the 27GR95QE measured at 0.78ms total display lag, and leaving us with only 0.67ms estimated signal processing lag. This is fine for competitive gaming and shouldn’t represent any issue. This is a lot lower than most TV’s since there is no added image processing or advanced scalers like there would be on TV’s, with the screen designed to be like a normal desktop monitor. There is no difference to lag in HDR mode by the way. Console Gaming

Overall, the LG 27GR95QE is one of the best gaming monitors available provided you are familiar with all its advantages and disadvantages. It delivers amazing image quality and buttery-smooth performance in a popular 27″ form factor. Specifications Screen Size You get a similar image clarity and sharpness as you would on a 42″ 4K display (~106 PPI), such as the LG OLED42C2, just a bit less screen real estate due to the lower 1440p resolution. The LG 27GR95QE also features Hexagon RGB lighting at the rear with adjustable colors and lighting patterns. In a dark room, the LEDs are even strong enough to reflect off of the wall and create atmospheric ambient lighting. As much as I am impressed by the picture quality, the LG can't escape the common problem that plagues some OLED gaming monitors: brightness. In my testing, the OLED's non-HDR peak brightness sits just above 200 nits which is frankly abysmal. LG claims you can get around 800 nits with HDR on, but will only apply to small, bright objects. So, it will be gaming-relevant, but you can't expect anything close to the brightness you'd get from a screen that can actually do 800 nits full screen. Information about whether there is a possibility for wall mounting according to the VESA Mounting Interface Standard (MIS).

Information about the maximum amount of time, in which the pixels change from one color to another. These results are in the 'Gamer 1' Game Mode with the Brightness at its max and Smart Energy Saving disabled. The 'Vivid' Game Mode gets much brighter, but the overall picture quality is worse because colors are inaccurate and the white balance is off. You can see the results in 'Vivid' below: The LG 27GR95QE-B is compatible with FreeSync and G-Sync, so you don’t have to worry about tearing and stuttering. This duality is essential for high-end monitors, so you don’t have to ditch it if you decide to switch to either AMD or Nvidia GPUs. Its input lag is below 3ms at 240Hz, so it is only a few notches slower than this 360Hz monster. Thoughts on the LG 27GR95QE-B At 27 inches, the pixel density is excellent on the UltraGear OLED 27. Text looks super sharp, and images look vibrant thanks to the OLED panel. You’re spending more for fewer pixels, but that’s not really important once you sit down and look at the monitor. Jacob Roach / Digital Trends / Digital Trends Default gamma was decent again at 2.16 average, which is good news as that’s one setting greyed out in the menu in this mode for the picture controls. The RGB balance was now much better and very good across the greyscale, with 6553K average colour temp measured. White point was ever so slightly too cool still at 6662K, but only by a minor 2% deviance from the target. This all resulted in a very good greyscale accuracy with dE 1.2 average. Far better here than the default Gamer 1 wide gamut mode. Brightness was more modest in this mode at 136 nits, and actually your maximum possible brightness is more limited in this mode than native mode, at a maximum of 160 nits (100% brightness setting). We will talk about screen brightness more in a moment.

Brightness isn’t the main draw here, though. It’s contrast. LG claims the monitor can reach peak brightness of 1,000 nits, but only for 3% of the screen. I measured a max brightness of 600 nits, but that was with HDR cranked. That sounds high, but the monitor won’t normally get that bright. In SDR, it topped out at just over 250 nits, which is fairly dim for a monitor released in 2023.

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I measured a color error of above 6 in HDR, and that was only at 75% brightness. The UltraGear OLED 27 is great for color work when it’s in SDR, but HDR is exclusively for playing games, watching movies, and browsing the internet. For connections there are 1x DisplayPort and 2x HDMI listed along with a combined headphone/mic connection, SPDIF output and 2 USB data ports. There’s no speakers on this model by the way. LG don’t state what version of the DP and HDMI connections are included but DisplayPort 1.4 with DSC will be needed to handle the 1440p at 240Hz 10-bit properly. HDMI could be v2.1 but we expect HDMI 2.0 is more likely to be honest, with enough bandwidth for 1440p @ 120Hz to support modern consoles sufficiently. We will update once we have confirmation on HDMI version here. A remote control is provided with the screen too apparently. dE colour accuracy – a wide range of colours are tested and the colour accuracy dE measured. We compare these produced colours to the sRGB reference space, and if applicable when measuring a wide gamut screen we also provide the accuracy relative to a specific wide gamut reference such as DCI-P3. An average dE and maximum dE is provided along with an overall screen rating. The lower the dE the better, with differences of <1 being imperceptible (marked by the green area on the graph), and differences between 1 and 3 being small (yellow areas). Anything over dE 3 needs correcting and causes more obvious differences in appearance relative to what should be shown. dE 2000 is used for improved accuracy and providing a better representation of what you would see as a user, compared with older dE methods like dE 1994, as it takes into account the human eye’s perceptual sensitivity to different colours.

Class 1)Less than 8.33ms – the equivalent to 1 frame lag of a display at 120Hz refresh rate – should be fine for gamers, even at high levels OLED panels aren't known for their brightness compared to other panel types, but this is low for an OLED, where the average sits around 250-300 nits. For example, the Alienware 34 OLED monitor does about 250 nits, and it's by far the best OLED gaming monitor on the market at the moment. It does get a little brighter if you switch to reader mode, which makes sense since reading text on a screen with low brightness can strain the eyes. Desktop monitors and smart TVs experience a latency/lag in visualizing the information. The time in milliseconds that the display needs to visualize the signal input. 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). With over a week of screen time with LG’s new 27” OLED monitor, I can confidently say that this is a stellar product, and absolutely is the upgrade one should consider. Of course, OLED panels do come with one major caveat, and that is the less than average standard brightness, which could struggle in showing bright images under well-lit conditions. Design and FeaturesAt all brightness levels the luminance was very similar across all APL sizes, although there was some slight variation across the range which was unusual. We are talking very minor differences of about 7 – 8 cd/m 2 maximum difference at 120 cd/m 2 and 150 cd/m 2 settings, which is going to be basically impossible to detect visually. At 200 cd/m 2 there’s about a 15 cd/m 2 maximum variance, but again this will be very hard to see. Resizing office document windows showed no noticeable fluctuations or changes in brightness which was great news, so the ABL was not needed or used in SDR desktop use. Office and General Use Resolution 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. Variable refresh rate (VRR) is also supported via AMD FreeSync Premium, NVIDIA G-SYNC Compatible and HDMI 2.1 VRR for tear-free gameplay all the way up to 240FPS without any noticeable input lag penalty. But via the remote control, the main menu has a reasonable range of options to play with. There’s a wide range of preset modes you can select from and customise, including two hardware calibrated modes if you have a compatible calibration device.