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LG provide a 2 year warranty for this screen although do not really talk about image retention or burn in cover, other than to say that the warranty does NOT cover “Burned-in images resulting from improper usage as described in the user manual”– but improper use is a pretty vague term. This may make it difficult to claim under the warranty should you ever run in to any image retention issues, so we would advise some caution depending on your usage type and habits, and your risk tolerance. Gaming Note that in the Gamer 1 preset mode, the contrast setting in the OSD is at 60% by default, but considering it is set at 70% in most other modes, including the default “calibration” profiles and the sRGB mode, this seems to be a better optimal setting for contrast. Visually it only makes minor difference though in greyscale rendering and shadow detail. We prefer to change this to 70% to match the more accurate preset modes on the screen for this section. As much as I am impressed by the picture quality, the LG can't escape the common problem that plagues some OLED gaming monitors: brightness. In my testing, the OLED's non-HDR peak brightness sits just above 200 nits which is frankly abysmal. LG claims you can get around 800 nits with HDR on, but will only apply to small, bright objects. So, it will be gaming-relevant, but you can't expect anything close to the brightness you'd get from a screen that can actually do 800 nits full screen. Variable refresh rate (VRR) is also supported via AMD FreeSync Premium, NVIDIA G-SYNC Compatible and HDMI 2.1 VRR for tear-free gameplay all the way up to 240FPS without any noticeable input lag penalty. In our original testing only the ‘vivid’ mode showed any real improvement in HDR peak brightness, reaching up to 792 nits, but only at the expense of an overly colour colour temp, now measured at 9252K. Even this wasn’t reaching the 1000 nits advertised, and we have no idea where that spec came from really. We couldn’t achieve it from our testing. As we said above, the newer April 2023 firmware made some adjustments to the Gamer 2 preset mode which we have added to the table above, making that much cooler now and reaching 882 nits max, but at ~8900K colour temp. Even this “cheat mode” didn’t help it reach the advertised 1000 nits.
Note: we turned off “Smart Energy Saving” from the OSD menu which could otherwise impact screen brightness. Among all correct predictions, we give away 5 x LG UltraGear™ 27GR95QE and 160 x Ocean Song Ashe Skin + Champion Bundles.The LG 27GR95QE-B is a fantastic gaming monitor based on its test results and specifications. Its unique OLED panel is fast and vibrant and capable of brilliant HDR performance, even when compared to its mini-LED counterparts. We like its design and added features, plus it’s not stupendously expensive like we feared it would be. With an LG computer monitor you’ll discover cutting-edge display technology and slim designs, from the LG CINEMA 3D monitor, the new standard in 3-dimensional excellence, to our dazzling LED and LCD monitors, which offer state-of-the-art display and features. You’ll get a new outlook on life with monitors and other computer equipment from LG. The stand is relatively compact and shouldn’t take much space on a desktop (it’s as big as any other 27” monitor). It offers decent ergonomics, with -5 - 15 degree tilt, -10 - 10 degree swivel, and 110mm of height adjustment. The display is also able to pivot to a portrait position, but if you are planning to use this as your secondary display for Twitch chats, we need to talk about your spending habits. This monitor supports the fastest refresh rate and response time as of Dec. 2022, 240Hz refresh rate and 0.03ms, among the OLED gaming monitor. There are also a few presets for HDR. The Gamer 1, Gamer 2, FPS and RTS modes can reach around 650-nits for 10% and smaller sizes and 130-nits for 100% full-screen white windows.
When using VRR, the pixel response time performance is perfect regardless of the refresh/frame rate as there’s no need for different overdrive modes. This coating does a very good job of reducing reflections and handling external light sources like windows and lamps and we noticed much better reflection handling (no surprise) than glossy panels like the LG C2. Like normal matte coated monitors, there were very minimal reflections of lamps, windows and lights at all, and this made the screen very comfortable to use in office environments and in daytime usage. In our opinion this is far more suitable for a desktop monitor than a glossy panel coating. If you really prefer glossy, you may want to consider looking at the Dough Spectrum ES07E2D which is coming out later this year, and is basically a glossy version of this panel. Image clarity and graininess You’re meant to control the monitor with the included remote, but even with that, the UltraGear OLED 27 runs into issues. For starters, the battery slot on the remote requires a screwdriver to get open, and LG doesn’t include the coin battery you need to power the remote. This wouldn’t be a problem if you could control the on-screen display with the button on the monitor, or if LG had included the battery, which very few people are likely to have laying around, but neither of those things are true. Jacob Roach / Digital Trends The screen has a decent range of ergonomic adjustments with tilt, height, swivel and also rotate available. They are all pretty stiff to operate though which makes changing the viewing angle a pain sometimes. Side to side swivel adjustment also has a pretty limited range, but overall the screen is very sturdy and stable.As long as you let these features operate as intended and don’t leave the screen showing bright static elements for a long time, the LG 27GR95QE shouldn’t burn-in. Features Screen Saver – screen turns off automatically when no movement is detected after a certain period of time LG Display’s W-OLED panel uses a WRGB subpixel layout, which adds a white subpixel to the conventional RGB layout for increased brightness. This causes minor fringing on small text and thin lines, which some users might find a bit annoying, but it’s not noticeable in games and videos. These coordinates listed are also CIE 1931 colour gamut x,y, coordinates but if we plot those relative to that reference, and assume the blue target was met at 0.1490, 0.0600, then that would equal a 99.9% absolute coverage of sRGB (102.8% relative). Really we would also like the coordinates to be listed here as the more accurate and recent CIE 1976 u’, v’ coordinates, and the coverage % from there. If we convert the coordinates to CIE1976 and plot the colour gamut according to that reference, we get a 99.6% absolute coverage of sRGB (101.7%). It looks like the colour space has been achieved nicely though which is great. We would have just liked the software to report these % for us. The wide colour gamut provides flexibility to work with a range of different colour spaces if you need to. The native wide gamut is useful for gaming, HDR and multimedia where you might well prefer the more saturated and vivid colours, and especially for HDR content which is mastered in a very wide Rec.2020 colour space anyway. Having the ability to cover most of the DCI-P3 (97.4%) and Adobe RGB colour spaces (96.4%) from this screen is great news if you want to work in either of those, although you’d need to be able to calibrate the screen with a calibration tool to clamp the gamut to Adobe RGB properly. The native colour space is very close to DCI-P3 so you wouldn’t need much clamping there. A decent and well configured sRGB emulation mode is also provided which is definitely useable and valuable.
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