LG unveils its personal 480Hz OLED gaming monitor

Again in January on the Shopper Electronics Present (CES), LG unveiled a 27-inch 480Hz OLED panel with some unbelievable specs, however did not say when or even when it will construct a monitor round it. Now, the corporate has introduced the UltraGear GX7 (27GX790A), a 27-inch QHD (2,560 x 1,440) OLED gaming monitor with a 480Hz refresh price and a .03-millisecond response time — the quickest of any QHD OLED monitor, LG claims.

The brand new show helps each NVIDIA’s G-Sync and AMD’s FreeSync know-how to scale back display tearing and flickering. It obtained VESA’s DisplayHDR True Black 400 certification, that means it is decently shiny, helps a large shade gamut (DCI-P3 98.5 %) and produces deep blacks. It additionally comes with an anti-glare and low reflection coating.

The UltraGear GX7 is supplied with a headphone jack and each HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.1 inputs. It must be famous that neither of these show applied sciences natively help 480Hz refresh charges at 1440p resolutions, so LG’s new show will doubtless use DSC (show stream compression) know-how that permits such a excessive refresh price along side fashionable NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. Lastly, it is perched on modern, height-adjustable stand with 15 levels of tilt and 30 levels of swivel.

LG’s new show is not low cost at $1,000, but it surely does undercut rival Sony’s InZone M10S (additionally a 1440p 480Hz OLED show) by $100. Nevertheless, Sony’s monitor has just a few additional professional gaming options, together with one that attracts an overview round enemies and one other that simulates older LCD displays for gamers preferring that. The UltraGear GX7 is live on LG’s site, however there is not any pre-order button or transport date but.

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