Wednesday, February 25th 2026
LG Puts Up its 52-inch 5K2K Monitor for Pre-Order
Just ahead of CES, LG announced a range of new monitors and now, the biggest one of the new models, the UltraGear EVO 52G930B is available for pre-order. Back then, LG didn't reveal much in terms of details about its 52-inch giant, but the company did reveal the 5120 x 2160 pixel resolution, the 240 Hz refresh rate and the 1000R curvature. Now we know that the 52G930B will also support DisplayHDR 600 and 95% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut. The panel is likely to cause some disappointment, as it's a VA panel with a contrast ratio of 4000:1 and a 1 ms grey to grey response time. Unfortunately LG doesn't provide any details with regards to what type of backlight is being used, but HDR600 doesn't require FALD. The 52G930B also has AMD FreeSync Premium support and a range of built in gaming features.
Somewhat disappointingly, the LG 52G930B only sports a single DisplayPort 2.1 input, but the two HDMI 2.1 ports also support the full resolution and refresh rate on offer here. The USB Type-C port seems to still be limited to DP 1.4 with DSC and possibly lower chroma subsampling, as even though it can support the full resolution, it tops out at 200 Hz. The monitor also has a pair of USB 3.0 Type-A ports and a headphone jack that supports DTS Headphone:X. There's also a pair of built in stereo speakers and some RGB lights around the rear. As with many other of LG's more premium monitors, KVM support and Picture-in-Picture and Picture-by-Picture is supported. Finally the stand is height adjustable and the display can be tilted and swiveled. LG is asking for US$1999.99 and the monitor is said to start shipping around the 22nd of March.
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LG Electronics US
Somewhat disappointingly, the LG 52G930B only sports a single DisplayPort 2.1 input, but the two HDMI 2.1 ports also support the full resolution and refresh rate on offer here. The USB Type-C port seems to still be limited to DP 1.4 with DSC and possibly lower chroma subsampling, as even though it can support the full resolution, it tops out at 200 Hz. The monitor also has a pair of USB 3.0 Type-A ports and a headphone jack that supports DTS Headphone:X. There's also a pair of built in stereo speakers and some RGB lights around the rear. As with many other of LG's more premium monitors, KVM support and Picture-in-Picture and Picture-by-Picture is supported. Finally the stand is height adjustable and the display can be tilted and swiveled. LG is asking for US$1999.99 and the monitor is said to start shipping around the 22nd of March.
12 Comments on LG Puts Up its 52-inch 5K2K Monitor for Pre-Order
A 52"/5K screen for $2K......interesting, but too bad it's a VA panel......
I wait on the reviews, but obviously this was not meant to be a flagship model, which would have used an OLED or mini-OLED would have fit that title better...
Oh well, whatchagonnado :D
This would be an appealing $500-750 monitor, but as it stands you can get two 32" 4K displays of this calibre for about $250 each. People will pay a bit more to remove the bezel between the two monitors, but not that much more, and this isn't even 32:9, it's 21:9.
Anyways, better just to go for an OLED TV at this point. Gamers are way to kind with their wallets, and it shows, people keep buying expensive trash. Gamer chairs anyone? lol
www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessoriesLG has done that for several of its higher-end gaming monitors recently.
However, a lot of cheaper VA panels, including every LG VA panel ever reviewed have the basic, dumb overdrive that you're used to with low-end VA that has black smear with 0%-20% response times of >10ms. For their low asking price, they are still compelling gaming options as you get near-OLED contrast levels, immersive curve radius (useful on anything larger than 27 inches) that IPS simply cannot do, and with 0%-20% response times of ~10ms or so there's not enough black smear to ruin your day - you'll notice it if you specifically look for it, but it's not like it used to be in the bad old days when 0%-20% response times were over 30ms.
Windows own "ClearType Tuner" seems to be broken for years now so i can´t fathom how OLED users handle text clarity concerning its windows-unfriendly sub-pixel layout?
For me currently it´s a battle between "text smear" (OLED) vs "fast moving smear" (VA)
In theory ClearType supports BGR but the "choose which text looks best" is a godawful way to choose and it's never really obvious if you've picked the right sequence because there are always 2-3 samples from that choice of six that look okay, just at different boldness, which has nothing to do with subpixel AA. I guess they're trying to work out your display gamma from those samples but that's a really difficult way to do it and always results in incorrect values.
At least you can ignore that bullshit "choose which text looks best" ambiguous mess by hardcoding the correct values into the registry for your display:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics\<displayName>
The keys don't exist until you've run the ClearType tuner once, and then you just need to modify the PixelStructure DWORD to 1 for RGB stripe and 2 for BGR.
Realistically, the issue is that Microsoft are DOGSHIT. Pentile displays first went mainstream in laptops back in 2012. OLED PC monitors launched at CES a decade ago and have been very common indeed for the last 5+ years. We know Microsoft don't care, can't fix, won't fix, and refuse to sort out the absolute clusterf*ck of a UI that's never been fully migrated from the Classic NT one that lasted up until Windows 7, but the RGB and BRG stripes that Cleartype supported 26 years ago need an update, and have needed an update for at least a whole decade.
Why doesn't Cleartype handle this?
Price is of course important, but I'll be stuck looking at the thing for multiple years, a smear fest full of overshoot artifacts is not an option.