LG Display Begins Mass Production of Ultimate Gaming OLED Panel with 4th-Generation OLED Technology

[TheLostSwede]

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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[cucol]

Ive got a LG 42 c4 and now got a 32 qdoled 4k 240hz dp 2.1 and while the higher refresh rate is a must have. imho the LG panel is just better.

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.

 

[dgianstefani]

32" 4K/240 10 bit please, and 32" 1440/480 10 bit. Don't skimp on HDMI/DP versions either, include a Type C and I'm sold.

Tandem OLED coming to monitor sized displays at reasonable prices has been needed for a good while.

Till then, my 34GS95Q will do nicely .

 

[TheLostSwede]

32" 4K/240 10 bit please, and 32" 1440/480 10 bit. Don't skimp on HDMI/DP versions either, include a Type C and I'm sold.

Tandem OLED coming to monitor sized displays at reasonable prices has been needed for a good while.

Till then, my 34GS95Q will do nicely .

You're aware that this the LG's panel maker division, right? The first two, they can affect, not the connectivity on the final monitors though.

 

[dgianstefani]

You're aware that this the LG's panel maker division, right? The first two, they can affect, not the connectivity on the final monitors though.

Ya, sure, but I mean even my current monitors are both sold by LG, so maybe they can talk to the other divisions within the corpo .

 

[TheLostSwede]

Ya, sure, but I mean even my current monitors are both sold by LG, so maybe they can talk to the other divisions within the corpo .

Somehow, that doesn't seem to happen to the degree you'd expect at some of these companies.

 

[JIWIL]

Somehow, that doesn't seem to happen to the degree you'd expect at some of these companies.

I've watched enough K-Drama's to know better!

 

[bonehead123]

Wow, all that techno-babble, only to find out that they are wasting the tech on puny little 27" monitors.....what a friggin bummer...... ......

I was REALLY hoping the first models would be for 32" & 42" versions, but oh well, maybe next time

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 !

 

[Rightness_1]

32" 4K/240Hz 10 bit please LG.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

LG ultimate, pah they might make good monitors but TV wise, bab, our tv has a constant out of memory error causing reboots.
I would still buy a LG monitor though as it they don’t have apps and the, bab, webOS

 

[TheLostSwede]

LG ultimate, pah they might make good monitors but TV wise, bab, our tv has a constant out of memory error causing reboots.
I would still buy a LG monitor though as it they don’t have apps and the, bab, webOS

Had my LG TV for almost three years now and it hasn't missed a beat, gets regular software updates and was a year old model when I got it.
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.

 

[TheDeeGee]

Searched for "burn" in the article and nothing was found, therefor OLED can still f off.

 

[Fishymachine]

Finally, desktop-sized tandem. Now all I need is an implementation with DP UHBR20 and a 5080Ti, or an RX10090(an XT would murder my budget and AMD might skimp castrate the flagship again with bandwidth or ROPs)

Searched for "burn" in the article and nothing was found, therefor OLED can still f off.

Tandem OLED essentially has 2 panels in front of each other, meaning you can either have them both blast full power to achieve the advertised 1500 nits, or have them running at 60% to get the same luminosity at less wear and tear. Meaning if Hardware Unboxed can torture test a single panel OLED for 18 month with burn-in just starting to become noticeable, this one should take at least another year to show the same signs

 

[konga]

32" 4K/240 10 bit please, and 32" 1440/480 10 bit. Don't skimp on HDMI/DP versions either, include a Type C and I'm sold.

Tandem OLED coming to monitor sized displays at reasonable prices has been needed for a good while.

Till then, my 34GS95Q will do nicely .

There's always a lot of confusion surrounding the use of "tandem OLED," but I feel obligated to chime in and say that OLED monitors have been "tandem" the whole time. They all have multiple layers of OLED material. The new OLED panels from LG are built fundamentally the same way as they used to be built. There used to be three layers, and they've now added a fourth layer. That's it. The "tandem" part was there the whole time and its only being used as a marketing buzzword now that Apple has had some success using it too.

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.

 

[truerock]

Ive got a LG 42 c4 and now got a 32 qdoled 4k 240hz dp 2.1 and while the higher refresh rate is a must have. imho the LG panel is just better.

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.

There is no reason that a 4k, 42" or 32" panel would have specs different from the 4k, 27" counterpart.
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.

 

[phints]

Wow, all that techno-babble, only to find out that they are wasting the tech on puny little 27" monitors.....what a friggin bummer...... ......

I was REALLY hoping the first models would be for 32" & 42" versions, but oh well, maybe next time

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 !

Those don’t sound like monitors they sound like TVs to me. Hard pass. 27” is as big as I’d go for a desktop monitor, would even prefer 25” if they still made it. 1440p 240Hz with this new OLED tech and decent built-in speakers for when I’m not using headphones (like my BenQ EX2710Q has) and I’ll make the jump to OLED finally.

 

[R-T-B]

Those don’t sound like monitors they sound like TVs to me. Hard pass. 27” is as big as I’d go for a desktop monitor, would even prefer 25” if they still made it. 1440p 240Hz with this new OLED tech and decent built-in speakers for when I’m not using headphones (like my BenQ EX2710Q has) and I’ll make the jump to OLED finally.

Nothing wrong with TV armchair PC gaming or even work-at-home workstation, but you are right, they already have many TVs on offer...

 

[TheLostSwede]

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.

Not if you want to plug in a games console or anything that does 4K 60 Hz, unless you're willing to use 4:2:0 rather than 4:2:2 subsampling, which not everything can do.
You also lose out on HDR from something like a Blu-ray player if you got HDMI 1.4b.

 

[RogueSix]

Why just 27"? Let's see more options at 38" and up (38"/40"/42").

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?

 

[mechtech]

A nice 24 to 27" 4k oled has been on my pc want list for a long time.....maybe in another 3 years prices will be decently under $1500cad.............

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?

 

[konga]

Why just 27"? Let's see more options at 38" and up (38"/40"/42").

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 are 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?

The 42" panels are LG Display's budget TV panels, and they usually have the worst specs and are a few years behind on new tech. I think I saw mention of a new 42" OLED monitor coming out somewhere, but I can't find the story right now. If it does happen, don't expect it to be a big upgrade over your current monitor.

 

[INSTG8R]

LG ultimate, pah they might make good monitors but TV wise, bab, our tv has a constant out of memory error causing reboots.
I would still buy a LG monitor though as it they don’t have apps and the, bab, webOS

I have 2 LG TVs one is at least 5 year old 42" IPS which quite surprisingly recently got an update and a "nothing special" 50" Nanocell VA. My only real issue is the Magic Remote and that stupid "mouse cursor"

 

[Visible Noise]

32" 4K/240 10 bit please, and 32" 1440/480 10 bit. Don't skimp on HDMI/DP versions either, include a Type C and I'm sold.

Tandem OLED coming to monitor sized displays at reasonable prices has been needed for a good while.

Till then, my 34GS95Q will do nicely .

This please. And text rendering quality that I can use all day, without VRR flickering.

Searched for "burn" in the article and nothing was found, therefor OLED can still f off.

2010 called to get its burn-in meme back.

 

[Vayra86]

Had my LG TV for almost three years now and it hasn't missed a beat, gets regular software updates and was a year old model when I got it.
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.

The overwhelming majority of smart TVs are simply equipped with a slow ass chip, they feel and act like massively underpowered PC or phones really. It reminds me of the Android phone world. Or the average car infotainment from Volkswagen lol.

 

[Rightness_1]

LG ultimate, pah they might make good monitors but TV wise, bab, our tv has a constant out of memory error causing reboots.
I would still buy a LG monitor though as it they don’t have apps and the, bab, webOS

Utter FUD.

The overwhelming majority of smart TVs are simply equipped with a slow ass chip, they feel and act like massively underpowered PC or phones really. It reminds me of the Android phone world. Or the average car infotainment from Volkswagen lol.

Yep, gotta love ARM for bringing the slowest CPU's and GPU's to some of the most expensive items in the household!