LG's Next UltraGear Gaming Displays Include a True 5K Monitor

LG is preparing to debut 3 caller flagship 5K UltraGear gaming monitors, including 1 with a existent 5K resolution. The institution has announced that during CES 2026 adjacent month, it volition amusement disconnected the monitors, 2 of which are 39-inch and 52-inch 5K2K ultrawides, portion the 3rd is simply a 27-inch MiniLED level sheet display.

Because we're heading into the twelvemonth 2026, there's a large AI constituent shared by the caller 27-inch and 39-inch monitors: built-in AI upscaling. The institution pitches this arsenic a mode to get higher-res graphics without upgrading your GPU, but I'll devour my chapeau if it's anyplace adjacent the prime of tech similar Nvidia's DLSS 4 oregon AMD's latest mentation of FSR.

LG's upcoming UltraGear displays

Let's speech astir the UltraGear GM9 (27GM950B) first. This 27-inch monitor's modular 5K solution (presumably 5,120 x 2,880) should mean much densely-packed pixels and sharper text, similar the LG 5K UltraFine of old. If you've ever seen a 5K retina iMac display, which utilized LG-made panels, that's benignant of what this is, but possibly better. The institution says the caller show has 2,304 section dimming zones and precocious 1,250-nit highest brightness, which should mean near-OLED opposition and large HDR performance. It ought to beryllium large for regular bureau enactment oregon contented consumption, and whitethorn adjacent vie with IGN's favourite gaming monitors, acknowledgment to a 165Hz refresh complaint erstwhile astatine 5K solution and up to 330Hz refresh complaint astatine QHD resolution.

Next up is the caller 39-inch GX9 (39GX950B), efficaciously an upgraded mentation of the existing WQHD 39-inch GX9. The quality is that the caller exemplary gets a higher resolution, astatine 5K2K (LG doesn't database the pixel number but successful the past, that has meant 5120 x 2160). It besides has a deeper 1500R curve compared to the GX9's 800R. At a wide FHD resolution, it tin scope a 330Hz refresh rate, portion astatine 5K2K it tin get up to 165Hz.

Then there's the egregiously wide UltraGear Evo 52-inch G9 (52G930B). Like the GX9, it's got a 5K2K resolution, but, dissimilar that display, it won't diagnostic built-in AI upscaling, is constricted to a 240Hz refresh rate, and has a shallower 1000R curve, and has neither an OLED oregon miniLED panel, astatine slightest arsenic acold arsenic LG has revealed. The institution writes that the G9 "features the vertical viewing tallness of a modular 42-inch 16:9 display, stretching horizontally for an expansive 12:9 panoramic view."

I’m guessing that past spot is simply a goof, since 5K2K solution would beryllium person to 21:9. 12:9 is the aforesaid arsenic 4:3, and based connected some LG’s representation supra and communal sense, I earnestly uncertainty this happening has the facet ratio of the aged Sanyo CRT TV I utilized to play my GameCube on. (Then again, I’d emotion the absurdity of plopping a curved, 52-inch-wide 4:3 show connected my desk.) We’ve reached retired to LG for clarification connected this, and we’ll update arsenic soon arsenic we perceive back. But for now, it looks similar it’s really a 21:9 display.

LG didn't spell beyond the headlining specs, truthful things similar larboard count, VESA mountability, oregon whether these displays person built-in speakers stay a mystery. The institution besides didn't uncover prices oregon merchandise dates.

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge. Inside of him determination are 2 wolves: 1 that thinks it wouldn't beryllium truthful atrocious to commencement collecting crippled consoles again, and the different who besides thinks this, but much strongly.