LG's UltraGear Dual Mode OLED does something no other OLED does: 480Hz. It's the standout feature of this excellent display, but the price holds it back.
LG UltraGear Dual Mode OLED MSRP $1,400.00 Score Details “The LG UltraGear Dual Mode OLED's unique take gaming monitors feels truly one-of-a-kind.” Pros Cons The LG UltraGear Dual Mode OLED is one of the most unique monitors I’ve reviewed. The 32GS95UE-B, as LG refers to it, is simply one of the best gaming monitors you can buy.
Around the back of the monitor, you get a long RGB light strip that wraps around the UltraGear logo and provides a nice bit of bias lighting. It’s a strange design, but I’m into it. You’re given options in the menu to set four different color presets, as well as cycle through colors. The backlight is all one zone, so you’ll either need to leave it cycling or go with a static color.
I honestly wrote off the 1080p use case for this monitor before I ever took it out of the box, but I was wrong. There’s a bit of customization with the Dual Mode option. You can run at the full 32 inches, or you can crop in to 27 or 25 inches when you toggle from 4K to 1080p. You’d think that would make the 1080p mode look better since the pixels are occupying a smaller area, but that’s not the case. In these crop modes, the pixel arrangement is uneven, so you get that smudging you see when running a monitor outside its native resolution.
A critical missing port There’s really nothing surprising here in terms of ports. You get two HDMI 2.1 connections and a DisplayPort 1.4 hookup, along with two USB ports that serve as a hub. Although I’ve heard plenty from gamers who want a DisplayPort 2.1 connection, you can achieve the full resolution and refresh rate with any of the hookups here with the lossless Display Stream Compression . In the event you want to turn off DSC, you can, but you’ll be limited to 120Hz on the HDMI ports.
Brightness is the main concern, and the UltraGear Dual Mode OLED doesn’t disappoint. In HDR, I measured a peak brightness of 1,135 nits. That’s just a few nits below the brightest result I’ve recorded on an OLED. And SDR was great as well, with the monitor topping out at 404 nits. In both cases, I had to use the Peak Brightness feature — by default, LG uses a uniform brightness setting that’s dimmer overall — but the monitor is certainly capable.
A specific gaming use I love gaming on a 32-inch 4K monitor, especially when it’s OLED. This is the perfect sweet spot for cinematic gaming, offering enough size to fill your field of view, and enough pixel density that you’re getting all of the benefits of 4K. Backed up by a 240Hz refresh rate, G-Sync compatibility, and FreeSync support, you’re going to have a great time gaming on the UltraGear Dual Mode OLED at 4K.
The dual refresh rate is unique trick, and it has some applications. Those applications are just very niche. For the vast majority of players, you can get the same experience for much less money. The UltraGear Dual Mode OLED really forces you to think about how practical switching between the two refresh rates and resolutions is because LG is charging a premium for the feature.
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