LG UltraGear 2025 Lineup Hands On 5K2K OLED and Mini LED Gaming Monitors

That's a better idea. [clears throat] So, we got the brand new lineup from LG Evo lineup. And of course, the Evo designation represents the top tier for LG and ultra high resolution beyond 4K. This, by the way, a world's first. This is the biggest 5K2K gaming display that's ever been made. We'll get there. Let's start down on this end. This is a mini LED display. So, this is the GM9, next to it the GX9, and all the way down there the G9. The small guy is actually kind of the best in some categories. So, this is going to be your tightest pixel density. It's a 5K display in the GM9 and the other two being 5K2K. And when you go ahead and put 5K on a 27-in you

end up with an incredibly sharp image, incredibly tight. So, the benefit of 5K 27-in mini LED, tremendous sharpness, obviously. That's a lot of pixels packed. When you're editing a photo, for example, and you just kind of are really inspecting on a per pixel level, this might not be zoomed in enough. I might be touching something up and actually want to move in even more so and identify individual pixels. You're shooting raw images, high-resolution images, multi-megapixel images, then being able to get in there and kind of fine-tune things in your editing software, it's just an advantage. I think the workstation scenario is maybe actually even two of

these like paired together. With that dual mode here, you really have both. So, 5120 by 2880, a lot of brightness here. So, 1250 nits. I think this display here, really nice balance, productivity work, creative work potentially, and then gaming, the ability to do gaming as well. So, this has that dual mode setup that LG is famous for. So, you can select for maximum resolution at 165 Hz, or you can go for maximum refresh. You can go for 330 Hz at QHD on this display. What that means is you don't really have to compromise because of that dual mode. And when we're talking about gaming in those lower resolutions, we're now dealing with a brand new processor across the board that LG claims is doing a much better job of upscaling. So,

turning a 1080p signal into a 5K image. These upscaling advantages mean that even if you want to play some other source that's not 5K capable, you're still going to receive some of the advantages of using a native 5K display via that upscaling. So, G-Sync compatible 218 is the actual PPI measurement and you may be concerned about burn-in. LG claims to have basically solved that with OLED and mini LED in this case and having greater stability with mini LED. As far as inputs, you have HDMI 2.1 * 2 on the back. You also have DisplayPort 2.1. There's USB-C with 90 W power delivery. So, when you jump into the interface, you have all your gaming specific stuff. So, we can just jump into game mode, we can launch into our settings. So, the

whole interface gives you that flexibility when switching between those different modes with without needing to fine-tune each mode each time. You've got your game mode you can jump into and then back into your work mode or day-to-day mode. All right, moving over to the GX9. So, obviously things get a little bit bigger here. So, this here is the world's first 39-in 5K2K OLED. And now with the fourth generation tandem, even better OLED performance without giving up brightness. Apparently, LG took some user feedback into consideration. They actually gave it a slightly more subtle curvature. This is now a 1500R curve, a little bit less aggressive, arguably a little bit more productive, like for day-to-day desktop

use. And the same thing occurred with scale. So, this one is now 39 in compared to the previous 45. You've got the same 5K2K and brightness here up to 1500 nits as well. So, you've still got type-C, you've still got 90 W power delivery. And with LG's fourth generation OLED and tandem OLED, you're looking at effectively the brightest OLED you can get at the moment. You also have dual mode, so that dual mode really comes into play. So, like right now, for example, I'm playing the new Forza on 5K. It looks amazing. I'm not quite getting 165 frames per second, but the display is capable of 165 hertz in this mode with 5K. So, I have that choice of extreme clarity or using the dual mode, and then I had the thing reading like 300 FPS. The other

thing I'm noticing here, particularly in Forza, I'm kind of liking that the subtle curvature. The advantage of the subtle curvature here, the 1500R, it's going to be more usable for a wider variety of functions versus like just gaming. So, I think it's actually kind of a nice mix. I love driving extremely chaotically and hitting some kind of top speed and then trying to cut as closely as possible to the other vehicles while I'm passing them. Like that. Like head-on traffic, but just by like an inch. You know what I'm saying? Without hitting. That's pretty close without hitting.

Give me another one. Higher speed. Woo! Without hitting. Close, close, close. Cut it. Oh! We had 200 miles an hour. No problem. Woo! So, the dual mode here will do 165 in full 5K, or you can go to WFHD, and then you're at 330 hertz. And then the next one we get to, the gaming centric. This monitor's almost a TV, honestly, at this size. This thing is huge. So, this is a 52-inch display. I mean, this is bigger than many people's displays. 1000R curvature. I think this is going to go in a person's room who wants it to be the one display that they use for everything. They're

going to watch movies on this display. They're going to sit a little further back, potentially hook up a console. It's a VA panel, so you're not going to be getting your OLED or your mini LED, but you're just going to be getting scale here. It also doesn't feature the dual mode, but it's got 240 Hz, which for gaming is going to be sufficient for a lot of people. The main advantage here is going to be that scale. You just want the biggest display you can possibly get to make that impact. You've got a lot of adjustability as well with the stand, so more than what you might get typically with a TV. So, this model has two HDMI 2.1 ports and one DisplayPort 2.1. It can still deliver up to 90 W over the USB, though.

Obviously, there are some advantages to scale. So, having 5K 2K at scale even when you sit close to it, like they don't really break up. It still appears to be sharp. This is for people who are going to have an all-in-one display to do everything for them. This is for people who are going to have a display that's their main display for watching movies. No problem when you've got so much scale. So, according to LG, this is actually the world's first 52-in 5K 2K display. Okay, so the question for you is which would you choose and why? I'm curious which will be the most popular. You've got scale over here with the G9. You just want the biggest thing.

You want one monitor to replace your TV. Do you want the hybrid approach and the OLED? Probably the one I would choose, 39-in OLED, dual mode built-in, fourth generation RGB tandem OLED, and very bright up to 1,500 nits on this model. The versatility of being that dual monitor that's going to work and play. Or, you go more work-oriented. So, when you have 5K resolution in a 27-in, you're dealing with very tight pixel density. You got the dual mode backup, so you want to game on it? Yeah. No problem. Also quite bright and mini LED. It's nice to have options, but I want to know which one you would pick. Would it be the GM9, the GX9, or the G9? Let me know in the comments.