LG has announced a caller 45-inch ultrawide OLED gaming show with a refresh complaint of 240Hz. The institution is calling the UltraGear 45GR95QE its “first curved OLED show with a 240Hz refresh rate,” which is notable astatine a clip erstwhile astir OLED displays (including those with level panels) are inactive capped astatine 120Hz. The institution is yet to denote pricing oregon a merchandise day for the monitor, but plans to amusement it disconnected astatine IFA successful Berlin adjacent month.

Having a higher refresh complaint means a show appears smoother and little juddery, and video games consciousness much responsive to play — particularly erstwhile combined with OLED’s near-instantaneous effect times. Until precocious it was uncommon to find an OLED show with a refresh complaint of implicit 120Hz, but that’s changed successful caller months. YouTube transmission HDTVTest reported successful May that Samsung’s S95B QD-OLED TV had go the archetypal OLED TV to enactment a 144Hz refresh complaint (albeit unofficially), portion Alienware’s AW3423DW monitor, which besides uses a QD-OLED sheet from Samsung Display, goes each the mode up to 175Hz.

Now, however, we’re seeing OLED displays look that spell each the mode up to 240Hz. HDTVTest reported earlier this month that the MSI GE67 HX laptop features the world’s archetypal 240Hz OLED display, and Razer has besides announced a 240Hz OLED laptop of its own. Just this week we besides saw Corsair denote a 240Hz OLED monitor, though the information that it tin beryllium manually bent into a curved show stole immoderate attraction distant from its precocious refresh rate.

Away from its refresh rate, the UltraGear 45GR95QE’s different specs see an facet ratio of 21:9, a curvature of 800R, and the quality to show 98.5 of the DCI-P3 colour gamut. It’s got a 1440p resolution, an HDMI 2.1 larboard with enactment for adaptable refresh rates, and an further DisplayPort 1.4 connector. There are besides built-in picture-by-picture and picture-in-picture modes for displaying contented from aggregate sources side-by-side.

While the refresh rates of OLED panels are improving, they inactive way acold down what LCD is susceptible of. LCD panels with 360Hz refresh rates are becoming progressively common, and earlier this twelvemonth we saw the first 500Hz Nvidia G-Sync gaming display announced by Asus.