LG Unveils Three New OLED Gaming Monitors — Including World’s First 5K2K Bendable Model

LG’s latest pre-CES 2025 announcement finds the brand unveiling a trio of premium big-screen OLED gaming monitors — including the world’s first 5K2K-resolution model to support LG’s unique ‘bendable’ technology.

This 5K2K bendable monitor, where you can mechanically adjust how curved its screen is between 900R and flat to suit different seating positions or usage scenarios, is the UltraGear 45GX990A. Already the proud winner of three CES 2025 Innovation awards, including the overall ‘Best of Innovation’ gong, LG describes the 45-inch 45GX990A as “an all-in-one smart gaming monitor powered by LG webOS”.

The presence of webOS alerts us to the fact that the 45GX990A can be used for streaming video as well as gaming, making its ability to curve or flatten its screen an even more useful talent.

Both the bendable 45GX990A and a new non-bending 45GX950A sibling feature 5,120 x 2160 resolutions, creating a 21:9 native aspect ratio, and both are certified for low blue light emissions, reducing eye strain during extended gaming sessions. Their screens are fitted with LG’s proprietary Anti-Glare and Low Reflection coating, too, to make it easier for gamers to see everything that’s going on, even in bright room settings.

The 45GX990A and 45GX950A also both feature the second generation of LG’s Dual-Mode technology, enabling them to offer customisable aspect ratios (21:9 or 16:9) and multiple (39, 34 or 27-inch) image sizes, with one-touch switching between eight different screen resolution and refresh rate combination presets. This makes it easy to adapt the monitor’s output to different game genres as well as room configurations. So, for instance, while the new monitors will offer a native 165Hz refresh rate at the screens’ maximum 5120×2160 resolution, they can also run to a refresh rate of 330Hz if you lower the resolution to 2560×1080.

Both monitors also support a 0.03ms GtG response time, and their high brightness OLED screens are rated to True Black 400 by VESA’s DisplayHDR certification standard. Connectivity includes HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.1 options, with support for the AMD FreeSync Premium Pro and NVidia G-Sync variable refresh rate systems, while available audio features now include DTS Headphone:X.

The pixel pitch of these new 45-inch 21:9 OLED monitors is an impressive 125 pixels per inch, using an RGBW subpixel layout, with one final noteworthy feature being a USB-C port boasting a 90W power delivery for convenient device charging.

One difference between the new GX9 monitors aside from the GX990A being bendable while the GX950A is not is that the GX950A’s locked curvature is 800R, making it more rounded than the GX990A is even at its most extreme setting. In fact, that extra curvature allows LG to claim ‘world first’ status for the 45GX950A too: Apparently it’s the world’s first 45-inch 5K2K OLED gaming monitor with 800R curvature and DisplayPort 2.1 support! So now you know.

While the 45-inch GX9s are the star attractions of LG’s CES 2025 gaming monitor announcements, the brand is also unveiling one other new UltraGear GX9 OLED model. The 39GX90SA is a 39-inch screen that is again configured in a 21:9 aspect ratio and boasts a (fixed) 800R level of curvature. It also retains the HDMI 2.1 port, a USB type C port, webOS smarts (so that you can stream video into it as well as playing games), 0.03ms response time, and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro/Nvidia G-Sync VRR support found on the 45-inch GX9s. It’s earned the the same VESA DisplayHDR True Black rating of 400, too.

Its refresh rate tops out at 240Hz, though, with no Dual-Mode technology available to potentially push it higher, and its resolution drops to WQHD from the WUHD level of the 45-inch sets. Its DisplayPort connection is only a 1.4 version, too, rather than a 2.1 version.

No pricing for LG’s new trio of UltraGear monitors has been released yet, but if emerges happens soon I’ll add it to this article.

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