LG's New UltraGear Evo Gaming Monitors Include A 5K2K OLED With AI Upscaling

LG is rolling out a brand new UltraGear evo (stylized with a lowercase 'e'), which it will show off in more detail at the Consumer Electronics Shows (CES) in Las Vegas early next month. In the meantime, LG is providing a few details about three upcoming models, one of which is a 39-inch curved OLED display that it's pitching as the world's first to implement on-device 5K AI upscaling.

The proprietary technology is part of LG's 39-inch GX9 (39GX950B), a dual-mode display built around the company's Primary RGB Tandem OLED panel tech with a native 5K resolution and 165Hz refresh rate, or an even faster 330Hz refresh rate if dialing down to a WFHD, both with a nominal 0.03ms response time.

Being a dual-mode 5K OLED gaming monitor is interesting in and of itself (and growing in number, even at the 5K resolution range), but ...