LG brings a 240Hz OLED panel to its UltraGear gaming monitors

LG UltraGear 45GR95QE (Source: LG)

Ahead of CES 2023, LG has shown off a couple of its newest UltraGear OLED gaming monitors. The company boasts that these are the first gaming monitors with a 240Hz OLED panel. The 27- and 45-inch models promise a record-breaking response time of less than 0.03 milliseconds Gray-to-Gray.

The 27-inch LG UltraGear 27GR95QE gets features like a QHD (2,560 x 1,440) resolution OLED display, 98.5% DCI-P3 colour gamut, support for NVIDIA G-SYNC, FreeSync Premium, and VESA Adaptive Sync, and more. It has an Anti-glare and Low Reflection panel for distraction-free gaming and supports HDMI 2.1 specifications and DisplayPort 1.4 connectivity. This monitor incorporates a 4-pole headphone jack that allows you to relish the realistic, spatial sound of DTS Headphone:X. 

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13" MacBook Air with OLED screen rumoured to launch in 2024

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