You’re meant to control the monitor with the included remote, but even with that, the UltraGear OLED 27 runs into issues. For starters, the battery slot on the remote requires a screwdriver to get open, and LG doesn’t include the coin battery you need to power the remote. This wouldn’t be a problem if you could control the on-screen display with the button on the monitor, or if LG had included the battery, which very few people are likely to have laying around, but neither of those things are true. Jacob Roach / Digital Trends 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

The LG UltraGear 27GR95QE will be available in the UAE sometime in April. The monitor will retail at AED 4,199. The Verdict In the bottom section we compared the screens native colour gamut against common wide colour gamut reference spaces. The coverage of DCI-P3 is very good, at 97.4% absolute coverage being slightly under (but very close to) the spec of 98.5%. There was very little over-coverage of DCI-P3 too (100.6% relative), so the screen is very close to that reference space, which is good news should you need to work with any content in that space, often used in HDR content creation and consumption.

Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM April 13, 2023 The new 27″ 1440p OLED monitor from Asus with 240Hz refresh rate, a custom heatsink and 1000 nits HDR brightness This term has become a little mixed up in the OLED market and sometimes associated with two different things. The correct usage for this term is related to how OLED panels operate from a technical and physics point of view, the other incorrect usage is where it has become associated with the ASBL (Auto Static Brightness Limiter) image protection feature common on OLED screens. We’ve talked about what an “ASBL” function on an OLED display would do above, which dims the brightness of the screen when it detects static images. ASBL isn’t featured on this screen anyway, but this is often what people think ABL means, but it’s not. The LG 27GR95QE was a really interesting screen to test, being the first super-high refresh rate OLED monitor released to market, and the first OLED gaming monitor in a smaller and common size and form factor. There’s no doubt the OLED panel can offer some impressive and excellent performance in many areas, although it’s not perfect if you’re after a multi-purpose monitor, and struggles a little in some areas it should do better. In the Gamer 1 mode, the LG 27GR95QE maintains ~200-nits of peak brightness regardless of the white window size in SDR. So, ABL (Automatic Brightness Limiter) is not active. 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.

The main downside of OLED panels is the risk of permanent image burn-in and temporary image retention. 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.

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. 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 Related content: our video guide to the best settings for the LG 27GR95QE Calibration (Software Profiling) In early April 2023 LG released an updated firmware for the 27GR95QE designed to supposedly help improve screen brightness. We have unfortunately had to return our screen sample, but our friends over at Monitors Unboxed have updated the firmware on their screen (done via the LG OnScreen Control software) and re-tested brightness in both SDR and HDR modes. They confirmed there was no change at all to HDR brightness in Gamer 1 mode, which has the ~6500K colour temp.

Apart from the standard image settings (brightness, contrast, color temperature, etc.), the LG 27GR95QE also offers some advanced options, including four gamma modes, 6-axis hue/saturation, sharpness, color temperature fine-tuning in 500K increments, aspect ratio control (full wide, original and just scan) and Auto Input Switch. Smart Energy Saving mode is applied by default to optimize power consumption, but you can enjoy a brighter gaming experience by turning it off. While the difference in fine details and text clarity is quite noticeable when comparing 27″ 4K and 27″ 1440p monitors, that difference is barely visible in video games and when watching videos, so those who are looking for a monitor mainly for gaming and content consumption will be completely satisfied with the 27GR95QE. Life's about more than having the latest technology. It’s about the experiences technology creates. From TVs and refrigerators to laptops and computer monitors, LG UK delivers home electronics that let you embrace life and prepare you for its greatest moments. Note: we turned off “Smart Energy Saving” from the OSD menu which could otherwise impact screen brightness.At 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 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 Features 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.

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). The LG 27GR95QE-B renders more than 100% sRGB and 98% DCI-P3 for stunning color in games and movies. Its default accuracy isn’t great when it is measured against the sRGB gamut, with its deltaE average reaching 3.71. However, that changes if you test it relative to DCI-P3 with an excellent dE average of only 0.81. Using the monitor’s sRGB mode did not help much, but it did limit the dE score to 2.51, which is better and more balanced.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. Asus ROG Swift OLED PG49WCD October 25, 2023 The large 49″ super ultrawide QD-OLED screen from Asus, with a 5120 x 1440 resolution, 144Hz refresh rate and 1000 nits peak brightness spec Read our detailed article about input lagand the various measurement techniques which are used to evaluate this aspect of a display. The screens tested are split into two measurements which are based on our overall display lag tests and half the average G2G response time, as measured by our oscilloscope. The response time element, part of the lag you can see, is split from the overall display lag and shown on the graph as the green bar. From there, the signal processing (red bar) can be provided as a good estimation of the lag you would feelfrom the display. We also classify each display as follows: The 27GR95QE is compatible with AMD FreeSync and Nvidia GSync, so you don’t have to worry about screen tearing or stuttering of any kind, regardless of the brand of graphics card you have in your system.