Experience the screen that turns curved into straight, straight into curved LG OLED UltraGear GX9 Series at CES 2025 | GameHuz

In the context of the increasingly competitive gaming monitor market, LG continues to affirm its pioneering position with its product line. OLED UltraGear GX9 Seriesintroduced at CES 2025. Not only focusing on display performance, LG also brings breakthroughs in design, smart features and customization, promising to take the gaming experience to a new level.

LG UltraGear OLED 45GX990A: Unique screen with the ability to bend straight into curved, curved into straight with a series of “top-notch” parameters​

The star of the GX9 series, the monitor that won three awards at CES 2025, including the “Best of Innovation” award, is LG UltraGear OLED 45GX990A. The most outstanding feature of this product is the ability to flexibly bend from completely flat to 900R curvature in just a few seconds through a button on the screen.

This feature provides unprecedented flexibility, allowing users to customize their content viewing experience according to their needs. I had a quick experience at LG’s display area at CES 2025 and found this feature to work quite effectively, helping me easily customize the screen to suit each game. The ability to switch between flat and curved screens provides a unique experience.

LG UltraGear OLED 45GX990A when bent and straightened​

When playing games, the 900R curvature of the screen helps enhance the feeling of immersion in the virtual world, especially with racing, flying or role-playing games with large environments. Meanwhile, when working or watching movies, flat screens bring more comfort and convenience, causing less content distortion.

Bending or straightening the screen happens very smoothly and quickly, without taking much waiting time. You just need to press the multi-function button on the screen to use, it doesn’t take many operations. Of course, this bending mechanism still needs to be tested for durability over longer periods of use.

At the event, LG arranged 2 additional dedicated buttons outside the screen so that visitors could easily experience this bending and straightening ability.

In addition to the ability to flexibly switch between curved and straight, this LG screen also has a high resolution of 5K2K (5120 x 2160 pixels) and a 165Hz scan frequency, providing dense pixel density on a 45-inch size. This screen can also increase the scan frequency up to 330Hz when switching to WFHD resolution.

Detailed visuals and a spacious workspace, not only great for gaming, but also useful for precision work like photo and video editing. The 21:9 aspect ratio provides a wider viewing angle than the traditional 16:9 ratio, increasing game immersion and is also very useful for multitasking.

In particular, the second generation Dual-Mode feature allows users to quickly switch between aspect ratios (21:9 and 16:9) and image sizes (39, 34 or 27 inches) with presets for resolution and scanning frequency. With 8 custom configurations, users can optimize the screen for different game genres such as FPS, RPG, MOBA or racing.

This screen also meets high-end display standards such as DCI-P3 98.5%, VESA TrueBlack 400, extremely fast response speed of only 0.03ms, built-in 2 10W speakers.

LG UltraGear OLED 45GX950A: 45-inch 800R curved screen with 5K2K high resolution, including DisplayPort 2.1 port​

Although not as bendable as its brother 45GX990A, model 45GX950A Still a very remarkable product with high-end features.

The 800R curvature provides a comfortable and immersive viewing experience, especially in first-person games. If you don’t know, the smaller the R index, the more curved the screen is, and will provide a more immersive experience when playing games, especially with large screen sizes and long aspect ratios.

The 4-sided thin bezel design helps maximize display space and create a seamless feeling, enhancing the content enjoyment experience. 5K2K resolution on 45 inch size provides a fairly high pixel density of 125 PPI for sharp and detailed images.

While the RGWB pixel layout improves text readability, useful for both gaming and working. This screen also has a smooth 165Hz refresh rate and can increase the refresh rate up to 330Hz when switching to WFHD resolution.

The connectivity capabilities of this monitor are also very diverse and support the latest connection standards such as DisplayPort 2.1 compatible with today’s most advanced graphics cards, in addition to HDMI 2.1 and USB-C with power supply capacity. 90W ensures compatibility with modern devices like gaming laptops and supports features like VRR.

Two NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro certifications ensure the ability to synchronize scan frequencies between the monitor and graphics card, minimizing screen tearing and providing a smooth gaming experience.

LG UltraGear OLED 39GX90SA: Multi-function entertainment center, smart experience integrating webOS​

Different from the above two models, 39GX90SA Focusing on smart features and multimedia entertainment capabilities with a built-in operating system webOS familiar on LG TVs.

Thanks to webOS, the screen becomes a home entertainment center, allowing users to access popular online video streaming and movie watching services such as YouTube, Netflix, TikTok without needing to connect to a computer.

LG even integrates an AI Chatbot inside the screen to help users fine-tune image and sound settings or when needing to troubleshoot problems.

This screen model is also equipped with a 39-inch 800R curved OLED panel, WQHD resolution of 34440×1400 pixels, 240Hz scan frequency with 21:9 ratio, providing an eye-catching movie watching and gaming experience. USB Type-C port helps conveniently connect to peripheral devices. Space-saving L-shaped stand design helps save desk space.

WOLED technology: The foundation for premium display quality​

The common point of the entire line LG UltraGear GX9 is the use of OLED panels with technology WOLED advanced by LG. This technology brings outstanding advantages compared to other screen technologies. The ability to completely turn off each pixel helps the screen achieve infinite contrast, reproduce absolute deep blacks, delivering vivid and realistic images.

Wide color range and high color accuracy help display images with vibrant and realistic colors, especially important in high-graphics games. With a response time of only 0.03ms (GtG), ghosting is minimized, providing a smooth gaming experience, especially in fast action games.

Certified to reduce blue light to help protect users’ eyes when used for long periods of time. Overlay Anti-Glare & Low Reflection (AGLR) Helps minimize reflection and glare, helping users see images clearly even in strong light environments.

It can be seen that the LG UltraGear GX9 Series OLED screen line is truly a giant step forward in gaming screen technology. With advanced WOLED technology, groundbreaking design, smart features and high customization, this product line meets the increasing needs of gamers and professional users.

In particular, model 45GX990A with its unique bending ability has opened a new era for gaming monitors. However, the price of these products certainly will not be cheap, and the durability of the bending mechanism on the 45GX990A needs to be verified in actual use. However, it cannot be denied that LG has brought a truly impressive product line and deserves to be a new standard for gaming monitors. LG has not yet announced the official selling price for the UltraGear GX9 Series monitors.

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