Friday, June 27th 2025
LG Display Begins Mass Production of Ultimate Gaming OLED Panel with 4th-Generation OLED Technology
LG Display, the world's leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it has successfully begun mass production of the world's top OLED monitor panel, incorporating its latest proprietary technology as the company accelerates its push into the premium monitor panel market. The 27-inch OLED monitor panel achieves a peak brightness of 1,500 nits thanks to the application of the company's core fourth-generation OLED technology, Primary RGB Tandem.
In addition, LG Display has successfully developed a 540 Hz OLED monitor panel - surpassing the highest refresh rate currently available - and plans to unveil it soon. As a result, LG Display is leading the world's OLED technology across the "triple crown" of key elements that determine gaming monitor picture quality - brightness, refresh rate, and response time.
By incorporating its proprietary Primary RGB Tandem technology, LG Display's 27-inch OLED monitor panel delivers the highest peak brightness among existing OLED monitors - 1,500 nits (based on APL 1.5%) and a refresh rate of 280 Hz. This technology is the world's first to stack the three primary colors of light - red, green, and blue - into four separate, independent layers. By increasing peak brightness, it maximizes contrast ratio, delivering more vivid and accurate visuals.
The panel also achieves a color reproduction rate of 99.5%, the highest among existing OLEDs and a level that is suitable for professional content creation environments such as film production and color grading.
Moreover, it eliminates screen glare, which significantly impacts the gaming experience, blocking 99% of internal and external light reflections through a special film and improved internal panel element structure. As a result, it maintains perfect picture quality without color distortion even under lighting conditions of 500 lux - the brightness of a living room in broad daylight. This has enabled the panel to obtain certifications for Perfect Black, Perfect Color, and 100% Color Fidelity from global organizations such as UL Solutions and Intertek.
LG Display additionally revealed details of its development of the first OLED monitor panel to simultaneously support a 540 Hz refresh rate and QHD resolution. A 540 Hz refresh rate means the screen refreshes 540 times per second, delivering overwhelming performance in fast-paced games such as first-person shooters (FPS) and racing titles.
Exceeding a 500 Hz refresh rate had been considered a virtually unbreakable threshold due to the associated steep drop in picture quality. LG Display has successfully overcome this limitation by developing and applying a new proprietary algorithm. The 540 Hz refresh rate goes beyond even the highest standards envisioned by professional gamers for OLED gaming monitors.
Meanwhile, LG Display's proprietary Dynamic Frequency & Resolution (DFR) technology enables ultra-high refresh rate modes of up to 720 Hz in HD resolution. DFR allows users to select their preferred refresh rate mode depending on the content.
The company's OLED monitor panels also feature an industry-leading response time of 0.03 ms, far surpassing the performance of LCD monitors, which have a response time of up to 1.0 ms.
Response time refers to how long it takes for a pixel to change from one color to another. Even with a high refresh rate, if the response time is slow, blurred edges or ghosting from previous frames can occur. A fast response time is essential to fully experience the speed of fast-paced games.
LG Display's OLED panel for monitors combines an ultra-fast 0.03 ms response time with a high refresh rate of 540 Hz, meeting the highest tier of the relevant Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) standard - ClearMR (Clear Motion Ratio) 21,000. A higher ClearMR value indicates better picture quality, greater clarity, and reduced motion blur.
With major global set manufacturers having completed launch evaluations, LG Display plans to begin mass production of its 540 Hz Gaming OLED panel in the second half of this year.
"OLED monitors are rapidly expanding their market share thanks to perfect black levels and fast response times - capabilities fundamentally unattainable by LCD monitors," said Hyeon-woo Lee, Head of the Large Display Business Unit at LG Display. "With proprietary technologies like fourth-generation OLED and DFR, which competitors cannot replicate, LG Display will enhance its competitiveness in the premium monitor market and deliver differentiated value to customers."
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In addition, LG Display has successfully developed a 540 Hz OLED monitor panel - surpassing the highest refresh rate currently available - and plans to unveil it soon. As a result, LG Display is leading the world's OLED technology across the "triple crown" of key elements that determine gaming monitor picture quality - brightness, refresh rate, and response time.
The panel also achieves a color reproduction rate of 99.5%, the highest among existing OLEDs and a level that is suitable for professional content creation environments such as film production and color grading.
Moreover, it eliminates screen glare, which significantly impacts the gaming experience, blocking 99% of internal and external light reflections through a special film and improved internal panel element structure. As a result, it maintains perfect picture quality without color distortion even under lighting conditions of 500 lux - the brightness of a living room in broad daylight. This has enabled the panel to obtain certifications for Perfect Black, Perfect Color, and 100% Color Fidelity from global organizations such as UL Solutions and Intertek.
LG Display additionally revealed details of its development of the first OLED monitor panel to simultaneously support a 540 Hz refresh rate and QHD resolution. A 540 Hz refresh rate means the screen refreshes 540 times per second, delivering overwhelming performance in fast-paced games such as first-person shooters (FPS) and racing titles.
Exceeding a 500 Hz refresh rate had been considered a virtually unbreakable threshold due to the associated steep drop in picture quality. LG Display has successfully overcome this limitation by developing and applying a new proprietary algorithm. The 540 Hz refresh rate goes beyond even the highest standards envisioned by professional gamers for OLED gaming monitors.
Meanwhile, LG Display's proprietary Dynamic Frequency & Resolution (DFR) technology enables ultra-high refresh rate modes of up to 720 Hz in HD resolution. DFR allows users to select their preferred refresh rate mode depending on the content.
The company's OLED monitor panels also feature an industry-leading response time of 0.03 ms, far surpassing the performance of LCD monitors, which have a response time of up to 1.0 ms.
Response time refers to how long it takes for a pixel to change from one color to another. Even with a high refresh rate, if the response time is slow, blurred edges or ghosting from previous frames can occur. A fast response time is essential to fully experience the speed of fast-paced games.
LG Display's OLED panel for monitors combines an ultra-fast 0.03 ms response time with a high refresh rate of 540 Hz, meeting the highest tier of the relevant Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) standard - ClearMR (Clear Motion Ratio) 21,000. A higher ClearMR value indicates better picture quality, greater clarity, and reduced motion blur.
With major global set manufacturers having completed launch evaluations, LG Display plans to begin mass production of its 540 Hz Gaming OLED panel in the second half of this year.
"OLED monitors are rapidly expanding their market share thanks to perfect black levels and fast response times - capabilities fundamentally unattainable by LCD monitors," said Hyeon-woo Lee, Head of the Large Display Business Unit at LG Display. "With proprietary technologies like fourth-generation OLED and DFR, which competitors cannot replicate, LG Display will enhance its competitiveness in the premium monitor market and deliver differentiated value to customers."
39 Comments on LG Display Begins Mass Production of Ultimate Gaming OLED Panel with 4th-Generation OLED Technology
lets hope they do a 4k 32 or even better 42 inch 240hz dp 2.1 monitor with this new tandem 4th gen oled panel.
Tandem OLED coming to monitor sized displays at reasonable prices has been needed for a good while.
Till then, my 34GS95Q will do nicely :D.
I was REALLY hoping the first models would be for 32" & 42" versions, but oh well, maybe next time :D
And I agree about the connectivity options that dgianstefani mentioned above, if these are really supposed to be so-called "nex-gen" screens, then let the inputs be equally "nex-gen" too !
I would still buy a LG monitor though as it they don’t have apps and the, bab, webOS
Yeah, the HDR sucks, as it has a VA panel and is edge lit, but it was a mid-range model at the time.
Much better than our previous Samsung TV and Heran TVs.
That said, it seems like you need to hit a certain level when it comes to TVs, to get a decent one, as the budget ones always appear a bit anaemic on the hardware side.
edit: To be clear, the changes to panel composition have brought genuine improvements to brightness and efficiency. It's just that the marketing behind it is making it sound like some big shift from non-tandem panels to tandem panels, and that's not what's happening.
To oversimplify the obvious... the pixels on a 4k, 42" panel are further apart as compared to the 4k, 27" panel.
IMHO - what is happening here is LG is going to get the yields on the 27" panels to a point where LG feels comfortable moving to larger panels.
That might not be until 2026.
Also, the demand for 32" and 42" panels is smaller than the demand for 27" panels.
In today's world, you can divide PC video displays into two groups:
Old tech that does not have DisplayPort 2.1b and
New tech that has DisplayPort 2.1b
If a PC display does not have DisplayPort 2.1b, you are looking at some old, obsolete tech - that would be for individuals looking for something closer to $500 and definitely less than $1,000.
And then there is the weird TV vs PC display dichotomy...
HDMI 2.2 will provide a counterpoint to DP 2.1b - I assume in about 3 or 4 years.
The issue is, TVs do not use very much bandwidth to display movies, live sports from CATV, etc. So, for a TV HDMI 1.4b is more than enough.
So, the TV display market is different from the PC display market.
I guess maybe 8K, 10-bit TVs might justify HDMI 2.2 someday. But, Netflix and Xfinity deliver their content at 24 frames-per-second and that would have to change somehow.
You also lose out on HDR from something like a Blu-ray player if you got HDMI 1.4b.
It's sad how the 16:9 monitor market at 42" is all but dead. Most of the decent models in that range are at least two years old. The only large 40"+ displays nowadays are UW for reptiles and amphibians with eyes on the side of their head.
I have the ASUS PG42UQ OLED and would looooove to see a successor. Or at least *some* more options in the 38" to 42" range. OLED or IPS, 16:9, 4K, 120Hz+.
Were the bigger screens really that low in demand or are you simply expected to buy a LG C-whatever TV if you want a 42" screen?
However I have read that the text quality among other things is not as good as a regular lcd for whatever reason, just wondering how true that is?