I noted a few gamma issues during calibration but aside from that, the LG Ultra Gear 45GX950A is a superb OLED gaming monitor for flying and racing simulation. The picture is stunning and the motion is smooth. With its extreme curve, you’ll be completely drawn into the gaming environment.
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Gaming can be a pleasure on many kinds of computer monitors, but when you have one perfectly suited to what you’re playing, the experience jumps to another level. The feeling of immersion is especially important in racing or flying simulations. The sense of being in the car, plane, or spaceship heightens when you can wrap the screen around your viewpoint.
Simulators are dominated by the best gaming monitors with ultra-wide and mega-wide screens in either 21:9 or 32:9 aspect ratios. The mantra is, “the wider the better,” but height is essential too. Enter the 45-inch 21:9 category, where you get tremendous screen area and, if the curve is extreme enough, the true feeling of being in a cockpit.
LG’s Ultra Gear 45GX950A is ideally suited for driving and flying sims. It delivers a high pixel density of 125ppi with a 5120x2160 (5K2K) array on an OLED panel with an 800R curve. It also sports a 165 Hz refresh rate with a dual-mode switch to 330 Hz at 2560x1080, plus Adaptive-Sync, DisplayHDR 400, and wide-gamut color. Let’s take a look.
LG Ultra Gear 45GX950A Specs
Swipe to scroll horizontally Panel Type / Backlight Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) Screen Size / Aspect Ratio 45 inches / 21:9 Row 2 - Cell 0 Curve radius: 800mm Max Resolution and Refresh Rate 5120x2160 @ 165 Hz Row 4 - Cell 0 2560x1080 @ 330 Hz Row 5 - Cell 0 FreeSync and G-Sync Compatible Native Color Depth and Gamut 10-bit / DCI-P3 Row 7 - Cell 0 DisplayHDR 400, HDR10 Response Time (GTG) 0.03ms Brightness (mfr) 275 nits SDR Row 10 - Cell 0 1,300 nits HDR (1.5% window) Contrast Unmeasurable Speakers 2x 10w Video Inputs 1x DisplayPort 2.1 Row 14 - Cell 0 2x HDMI 2.1, 1x USB-C Audio 3.5mm headphone output Row 16 - Cell 0 DTS:Headphone X USB 3.2 2x down Power Consumption 85.3w, brightness @ 200 nits Panel Dimensions WxHxD w/base 39 x 21.5-26.2 x 13.5 inches (991 x 546-665 x 343mm) Panel Thickness 8.9 inches (226mm) Bezel Width Top: 0.28 inch (7mm) Row 22 - Cell 0 Sides: 0.35 inch (9mm) Row 23 - Cell 0 Bottom: 0.47 inch (12mm) Weight 30.9 pounds (14kg) Warranty 2 years
If you’re building a driving or flying simulator, a monitor like the 45GX950A is a natural choice. You could expand your view with multiple screens, but then there are those annoying dividing lines that you can’t unsee. A 32:9 screen brings the width, but current 49-inch models aren’t very tall. They impart a view that’s like looking out of a racing helmet, which is fine for driving but not so much for flying.
45 inches at 21:9 means 18 inches vertical, more than a 32-inch 16:9 monitor. To bring the sides into the user’s peripheral vision, the 45GX950A has a very tight 800R curve radius. That means a circle of them would only be 1.6 meters across. It’s so tight that you can hear your voice bounce off the sides of the screen — it’s a unique experience.
Onto the important stuff: The 45GX950A is a very high-resolution panel with a resolution of 5120x2160 pixels. That equates to 125 pixels per inch, denser than a 27-inch QHD monitor but not quite as dense as a 32-inch Ultra HD screen. It’s more total pixels — over 11 million — so fast frame rates will require a stout video card.
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