In the Gamer 1 mode, the LG 27GR95QE maintains ~200-nits of peak brightness regardless of the white window size in SDR. So, ABL (Automatic Brightness Limiter) is not active. You should already know the UltraGear OLED 27 is a great gaming monitor. A 240Hz refresh rate, response times below 0.1 millisecond, FreeSync certification and G-Sync support, and stunning HDR— it’s a winning combination.

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.

LG 27GR95QE-B Specifications

Asus has one in its ROG lineup, Corsair launched a Xeneon model late last year, and LG has the 27GR95QE-B in its UltraGear range. AOC, meanwhile, has just announced a new 240Hz OLED model in its AGON Pro range that will go on sale soon. 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

The LG UltraGear 27GR95QE will be available in the UAE sometime in April. The monitor will retail at AED 4,199. The Verdict Gradient handling was good though with no visible banding issues, and only minor gradation in darker tones. sRGB Emulation ModeAt 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. Jacob Roach / Digital Trends / Digital Trends

The screen comes out of the box in the ‘Gamer 1’ preset mode and at maximum 100% brightness. The screen was tested here in SDR mode by the way, and we had disabled ‘Smart Energy Saving’ in the OSD menu. HDR mode performs better in this regard, with it reaching up to 700 cd/m2 peak brightness. Unlike most LCD monitors which support DisplayHDR 400 or DisplayHDR 600 certification, but usually amount to little difference, the HDR on the 27GR95QE makes a notable difference in the image quality as it is able to utilize the HDR data to a much greater effect. As such, games and movies on the monitor looked expectedly stunning, so much so that there was little difference between it and my LG C9 OLED TV.

Gamer-centric Design

For around the same price, you can get the Dell AW3423DWF (165Hz, FreeSync) with a 34″ 3440×1440 QD-OLED panel. Calibrating it reduced that dE average to an excellent 0.73, making it suitable for editing work. The monitor is used for editing and content creation in either sRGB or DCI-P3 formats, so it’s more than just a gaming display. The matte anti-glare (AG) coating that LG have opted for is going to be controversial for sure, as the topic it was when we reviewed the Asus PG42UQ and other matte coated OLED screens.Whether or not it’s a good thing might also depend on your other uses somewhat. For this ‘office and general use’ section of the review we definitely preferred this AG coating over a glossy coating like that found on something like the LG 42C2. It does a really good job of eliminating reflections that you’d get from glossy coatings and diffuses light sources nicely. It looks and feels a lot more like a normal desktop monitor to use, and we think this is a good thing for the majority of people for office and general uses. These kind of environments are unlikely to be light controlled and you wouldn’t want to be working in a dark room for office work. You’ll have various lights and windows to worry about and we felt that the AG coating was a good thing for these uses. In SDR mode the luminance range of the screen is limited compared with LCD monitors, with a maximum brightness measured at 192 cd/m 2, which was close to the advertised 200 cd/m 2 which was pleasing. Most LCD monitors however can reach 300 – 500 cd/m 2 easily for SDR content and so on first glance, this might appear to be very limiting on the 27GR95QE. If you are used to using a very bright monitor or running at high brightness settings, you will almost certainly find this screen to look dark by comparison.

The resolution of 2560 x 1440 is comfortable on a 26.5″ sized screen providing a nice desktop area to work with, including decent support for split screen working and an obvious step up from 1080p displays. Some people may complain that it does not have a higher 3840 x 2160 “4K” resolution which could provide an even sharper image for these kind of uses, although there are added complications then of how your applications and OS handle scaling, and whether your system is powerful enough to run the screen at 4K in different situations, including for gaming. As we discussed in our recent article, ‘ The Obsession with 4K and Do You Need it on a New Monitor?‘, we think that 1440p is perfectly fine for most people on a ~27″ screen like this and in many situations preferable. Right now it is difficult and expensive to increase the pixel density on these OLED panels, but we’re sure that in time we will see higher resolution and higher density options released. For now 1440p on a 26.5″ screen is still great! Brightness for office use Regardless, these issues will happen over hundreds and hundreds of hours of playing the same kind of content, so don’t worry about it too much…just a little. Read our detailed article about input lagand the various measurement techniques which are used to evaluate this aspect of a display. The screens tested are split into two measurements which are based on our overall display lag tests and half the average G2G response time, as measured by our oscilloscope. The response time element, part of the lag you can see, is split from the overall display lag and shown on the graph as the green bar. From there, the signal processing (red bar) can be provided as a good estimation of the lag you would feelfrom the display. We also classify each display as follows: 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 graininessVariable 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 that bottom section though we have measured the colour accuracy of Adobe RGB colours, which is a colour space commonly used in professional and photography markets. There is decent absolute gamut coverage of Adobe RGB at 96.4%, but there’s still some over-coverage in some green, and particularly in red shades. Accuracy of the colours was still poor, with dE 4.9 average (max 11.9), again impacted by the too-cool colour temp. If you did want to work with Adobe RGB content, you’d really want to be able to calibrate the screen with a calibration device, to closely match the Adobe RGB reference colour space, and improve the colour temp and colour accuracy. By default, and certainly at these out of the box settings, the screen is not accurate for work with this content. I’ve never encountered a monitor that makes perfect sense like the UltraGear OLED 27 does. It doesn’t always hold up on the spec sheet, but sitting down in front of the monitor consistently reinforced one idea: this is one of the best gaming experiences you can have right now. HDMI-VRR is supported thanks to HDMI 2.1 from both consoles. ALLM is unfortunately not supported, and although the input lag will be consistent across all preset modes (the main reason for this setting is to turn a TV in to its game mode for lower lag), it could have been useful if it had switched to a gamer preset mode, as opposed to perhaps your normal working mode like sRGB or a calibrated preset.