LG Electronics UltraGear Gaming Monitor 32GQ950-B - 31.5 inch, Nano IPS with ATW UHD 4K Display, 144 Hz (O/C 160Hz), 1ms GtG, 3840 x 2160px, VESA Certified AdaptiveSync, VESA DisplayHDR 1000, HDMI 2.1

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Samsung's Odyssey Neo G8 is a 4K monitor (3840 x 2160) with a 1000R curve. Samsung notes it is the first 4K screen with a refresh rate of 240Hz and a response time of 1ms, offering the fastest and most responsive times for those that want the best while gaming. Whether you like Nvidia G-Sync or AMD FreSync Premium Pro, the monitor supports both tech. The main issue here are HDR claims. While LG does advertise this as a HDR 1000 product, I feel that's misleading due to the poor HDR capabilities that only reach semi HDR standard. I'm sure the monitor does properly pass the loose DisplayHDR 1000 certification standard, however this standard is not useful for consumers. The reality is the 32GQ950 is significantly inferior to proper, true HDR monitors. However I didn't spot any issues or defects with other areas to the display. What We Learned Samsung no longer produces LCD panels – instead focusing on their QD-OLED panels. They sold most of their LCD fabs to TCL/CSOT. Samsung QD-OLED Panel Moving on, the LG 32GQ950 monitor has a wide color gamut covering 98% of the DCI-P3 color space for vibrant and saturated colors.

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If we look at the LG 32GQ950 purely as a 32-inch 4K SDR display, it's one of the best that we've tested so far. It's faster than other 4K monitors of this size, which significantly improves gaming motion, and it complements this with excellent color quality. At the rear of the monitor, there’s a hexagon RGB LED pattern that can glow in 21 different colors and various patterns. However, unlike LG’s previous RGB implementations (Sphere Lighting), it cannot be synchronized with on-screen video and audio.

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This monitor has impressive factory calibration for greyscale. LG has made a noticeable effort to ship the monitor with a 6500K white point and sRGB gamma out of the box, which leads to excellent deltaE numbers. Default SDR performance is only let down by an unclamped color gamut rather than a restriction to sRGB, which leads to some oversaturation. With that said this is one of the more accurate oversaturated results, if that's a thing. While at around 100Hz we start to see some inverse ghosting, it's minimal and even at 60Hz with a 32% inverse ghosting rate, the actual artifacts you'll see can be hard to spot - this is due to cumulative deviation figures that aren't wildly out of control on average. Across all these refreshes we see around 4ms response time performance which is really solid.

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There's also an annoying automatic standby setting which will turn the display off after 4 hours regardless of what is happening, and that's enabled by default. We wondered why sometimes the 32GQ950 would randomly turn off and we thought it was a firmware issue, but it turns out it's just this setting, which we recommend you to disable. Display Performance The main difference between the two is that the Predator XP32 includes Nvidia G-Sync support and Nvidia Reflex, making this a good monitor for those that play a lot of first-person shooters like Valorant. While the XP32 FP includes AMD FreeSync Pro, USB-C power delivery support, and an HDMI 2.1 port, allowing you to game at 4K 120Hz when connecting a PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, or a graphics card that supports the HDMI 2.1, like the GeForce RTX 3080.

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Unfortunately, Samsung has yet to share pricing and release dates for both the Odyssey Neo G8 and Odyssey Ark.

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Dell revealed the AW3225QF 32″ 4K 240Hz curved and the AW2725DF 27″ 1440p 360Hz flat-screen QD-OLED gaming monitors.On average across the refresh range the 32GQ950 performs well. While it is a mid-table performer using the Normal setting, it has exceptionally low overshoot. It's roughly 50% faster than older 32-inch 4K monitors like the Asus PG32UQ and MSI MPG321UR-QD, while also delivering less overshoot, so that's an excellent result. All of the monitors that beat it in response times have higher overshoot, except OLEDs, of course, and if we had used the Fast mode instead of Normal mode it would have come close to matching the Neo G7.