With excellent motion clarity and color, the LG UltraGear OLED 27 sets a high bar for gamingmonitors in 2023.
LG UltraGear OLED 27 MSRP $1,000.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “Even with some OLED concerns, the UltraGear OLED 27 ticks all the boxes for a high-end gaming display.” Pros Cons For years, the best gaming monitors have leaned on one type of panel: traditional LCD. But that’s starting to change, and LG is leading the charge.
I’m a big fan of LG’s on-screen display , but it’s just a pain to access on the OLED 27. The singular control button doesn’t let you access the full menu, instead asking you to do a single press to cycle through a quick access menu or a long press to select a setting. This leads to situations where turning down the brightness requires pressing the button 100 times to go from the brightest settings to the dimmest.
Beautiful, vibrant OLED What makes the UltraGear OLED 27 special is right in the name: OLED. Self-dimming pixels mean you get true black levels and a theoretically infinite contrast ratio. It’s the antidote for the embarrassing state of HDR with most gaming monitors. That’s only in SDR, though. HDR is a different beast. The UltraGear OLED 27 has a WRGB subpixel layout, which means there’s a white subpixel alongside the standard red, green, and blue ones. This addition is what helps the UltraGear OLED 27 get brighter than similar OLEDs, but it comes with a trade-off. Since the display has to lean on the white subpixel to get bright in HDR, colors start to lose saturation as you turn the brightness up.
At 27 inches, the pixel density is excellent on the UltraGear OLED 27. Text looks super sharp, and images look vibrant thanks to the OLED panel. You’re spending more for fewer pixels, but that’s not really important once you sit down and look at the monitor. The only concern for text clarity is the WRGB subpixel structure, which is an issue we saw on the first batch of QD-OLED monitors. There’s some blurring around text as you sit close to the monitor, but I never found it distracting while using the display. You have to get very close to the screen to notice, so although text clarity is a problem compared to a traditional LCD monitor, it’s far from a deal breaker.
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