This is the third KTC monitor we had the pleasure of reviewing, and the brand continues to surprise us. Our time with the KTC M27P6 4K Mini-LED left us genuinely impressed by how much performance KTC managed to extract from a competitive price point, and the KTC H27P3 5K2K turned out to be a compelling option for creative professionals who wanted high pixel density without spending Apple Studio Display money. The G32P5 takes things in an entirely different direction – this is KTC’s play at the premium gaming monitor market, and they have come out swinging.
The G32 P5 is a 31.5” 4K 240Hz W-OLED gaming monitor built around LG’s W-OLED MLA+ panel, and on paper at least, it is absolutely stacked. You get a Dual Mode that lets you drop to 1080p and push the refresh rate all the way up to 480Hz, a USB-C port with 65W power delivery, a built-in KVM switch, integrated 5W speakers, a remote controller, a human presence detection sensor, and customizable RGB lighting on the back. It also carries VESA DisplayHDR True 400 certification and supports VRR across the full refresh range.
Now, the G32P5 isn’t sold locally in the UAE through any retailer we could find, but it is available on AliExpress for around AED 2,938. To put that in perspective, the LG 32GS95UE – which uses the same underlying panel – typically sells for closer to AED 3700 to AED 4000, and the Asus ROG PG32UCDP sits even higher. Even competing 32” 4K 240Hz QD-OLED monitors tend to command similar or higher prices. So KTC is positioning the G32P5 as the value pick in an expensive segment, and, for the most part, the hardware backs that positioning up.
That said, our time with G32P5 was not without frustrations. The OLED panel delivers the kind of image quality you would hope for – vivid, punchy, with the infinite contrast that makes HDR content special – and the feature list is hard to argue with at this price. But some of the software and firmware decisions KTC has made, particularly around the way the monitor handles memory and logic, take some of the shine off what is otherwise an excellent package. We will get into all of that, but the short version is: impressive hardware, occasionally let down by the login running underneath it.
Design and Features
The G32P5 makes a decent first impression out of the box. The overall aesthetic is clean and understated – no aggressive gaming angles, no RGB strips running along the front bezel – and it would look perfectly at home on a desk that isn’t trying to announce itself as a battlestation. The white and black color scheme also matches the PS5 and looks almost like it’s part of the family, which is nice if you have one.
The front of the monitor is dominated almost entirely by the display itself, with ultra-thin 1mm bezels running along the top and both sides. There is, however, a 7mm chin protruding below the bottom bezel, which houses the human presence detection sensor and the LED power indicator. It’s a minor thing, but considering how well the human detection works and how carefree it allows you to be with an OLED screen, heck it’s worth it. This is a reverse notch I can get behind. The panel itself is finished with a matte anti-glare coating, which is fairly typical of LG’s W-OLED panels.
Flip the monitor around and things get a bit more interesting. The back panel has a clean, minimal design with a cylindrical stand neck emerging from the center, giving the whole thing a slightly architectural look that sets it apart from the typical flat-backed gaming monitors. It’s sturdy and feels high quality, and in fact, it’s pretty much the exact same design as the KTC M27P6.
The KTC Logo sits in the upper portion of the rear panel and features customizable RGB lighting – you can cycle through breathing, static red, green, blue, yellow, purple, cyan, or white, or turn it off entirely. I chose to do just that because the lighting is too dim to make any noticeable difference, even in dark lighting conditions. The monitor doesn’t have any fan like some higher-end OLEDs do, and handles its cooling entirely by an internal heatsink.
The stand is reasonably capable. It supports up to 130mm of height adjustment, swivel of around 45degrees, and tilt from -5 to +20 degrees. The one thing it doesn’t offer is pivot – you can rotate it very slightly for leveling purposes, but portrait mode isn’t on the table. If you would rather mount the unit, the monitor is VESA compatible at 75x75mm, though you will need the adapter plates that KTC includes in the box. Cable management is handled through a channel in the stand neck, though it’s sized mainly for slimmer cables.
On the connectivity side, KTC has covered all bases. Along the back you will find a DisplayPort 1.4 input with DSC support, two HDMI 2.1 ports, and a USB-C port that handles both video via DisplayPort Alt Mode and up to 65W of power delivery – enough to charge most laptops while you work. There’s also a USB-B upstream port, two USB-A 3.0 downstream ports for peripherals, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The built-in KVM functionality ties into those USB ports, letting you switch which connected computer controls the downstream peripherals when you switch inputs.
Rounding things out are the dual 5W integrated speakers, which are a welcome addition given that most monitors at this size and price class leave audio entirely out. They are not great by any means, but as someone who does not like to use desktop speakers but still wants speakers to watch Youtube content and check audio files, these are more than enough.
OSD Menu and Remote Control
The OSD menu covers all the bases you would expect. On the display side, you get brightness, contrast, black equalizer, color temperature, color gamut, hue and saturation, and a low blue light filter. Gaming-oriented options include Adaptive Sync, an on-screen timer, crosshair overlays in different colors and shapes, an FPS counter, and of course the Dual Mode toggle.
There are nine picture presets to choose from – Standard, User, Movie, Photo, Eco, Reader, RTS, FPS and one called “Off Image”. That last one is worth calling out: rather than putting the display to sleep or switching it off, it simply blanks the screen to black while keeping the monitor running. It’s a practical addition for OLED owners who want to step away briefly without leaving a static image on screen. If you don’t want to deal with this manually, you can turn on Distance Sensor from the Advanced Settings, which automatically turns the screen to black if you move away, and turns it back on when it detects your presence near the sensor. It works surprisingly well and I have come to rely on it more often than not, instead of worrying over the display being on. However, the sensor is an object detection sensor and not “human”, so if there is a chair in front of the sensor, it might not turn off the screen because it’s still detecting something.
The menu itself is well organized, and the navigation is genuinely fast – noticeably snappier than what you get on many competing monitors where scrolling through options feels like wading through treacle.
The one gripe worth mentioning is the placement of the joystick itself. Because the monitor’s control module sits at the bottom center of the read panel;, reaching it from the front requires you to stretch your hand around at a fairly awkward angle.
Fortunately, the included remote control largely sidesteps that problem and so it’s worth having it around. Beyond the expected directional keys, volume controls, input selection, menu button and the power button, it comes with a handful of dedicated shortcuts that make day-to-day use significantly more convenient. There’s a ‘K’ button for KVM switching, a screen symbol button that triggers the Off Image mode, a ‘H’ button that cycles between the Standard and Cinema HDR modes, and a crosshair-style button that pulls up the gaming overlay options – timer, crosshair, and FPS counter – in one tap. I just wish the directional buttons offered the left/right/up/down shortcuts that the joystick can be configured to, allowing for even faster access to some of the settings.
Display Performance
The G32P5 is built around LG’s 31.5” 4K W-OLED MLA+ panel, running at 240Hz natively with a 0.03ms response time. Its Dual Mode drops the resolution to 1080p and pushes the refresh rate up to 480Hz, which is a meaningful jump from competitive gaming. However, since the monitor doesn’t use integer scaling, text and UI will look fuzzy as a result.
Peak SDR brightness sits at around 270 nits in Standard mode, though switching to User preset unlocks higher brightness levels – up to around 450 nits for smaller content areas. HDR peak brightness reaches 1300 nits for smaller areas, with VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400 certification. The panel covers 99% DCI-P3 and supports true 10-bit color with an infinite contrast ratio courtesy of OLED’s pixel dimming.
Out of the box, the display looks good but benefits significantly from some manual tuning. Here are the settings we settled for SDR use, and the reasoning behind each choice:
- Brightness: 80 (adjust according to preference)
- Contrast: 50
- Black Equalize: 50
- Preset: User
- Color Temp: User
- Gamma: 2.4
- Color Gamut: Normal
- Windows Auto Color Management: Off
Starting with the Preset, User is the one you want. Standard and other presets impose their own brightness ceilings, which means you are never accessing the panel’s full range. User unlocks everything. Similarly, setting Color Temperature to User mode brings the white point considerably closer to the standard 6500K target – other modes tend to skew cooler or add a slightly bluish cast that becomes noticeable once you are aware of it.
Gamma is worth adjusting, too. The default 2.2 setting on this monitor doesn’t actually track the 2.2 curve accurately, so bumping it to 2.4 brings it much more in line with what you would actually expect from a standard gamma 2.2 display. It’s a small change that makes a real difference to how shadow detail and midtones render.
Color Gamut is where things get more personal. Leaving it on Normal with Windows Auto Color Management turned off produces oversaturated colors – greens, reds, and blues can look genuinely neon at times. Whether that bothers you or not depends entirely on what you are using the monitor for. On an OLED panel with infinite contrast, those punchy, vivid colors look spectacular for gaming and media consumption, and there’s a real argument for just letting the display do its thing. If you need color accuracy for photo editing or creative work, you will want to either enable Windows ACM (which clamps colors to sRGB) or switch the Color Gamut to sRGB, both of which bring colors in line with the standard – but also make the overall image look noticeably flatter. It’s a trade-off, and there’s no objectively correct answer. I kept it on Normal because I am a sucker for the OLED pop.
For HDR, switch the HDR mode to Cinema, which allows for higher peak brightness than the default Standard mode, and leave Color Gamut on Norma. The remaining options are locked in HDR anyway. One thing worth knowing: even if you have Windows ACM disabled for SDR content, Windows still secretly uses it in HDR mode. This means the desktop and any SDR content rendered in HDR mode will appear more restrained compared to your SDR Normal gamut setup – not because anything is wrong, but because Windows is doing its job and managing colors output correctly.
The image quality itself is excellent. HDR content in particular is where this panel earns its keep – colors are vivid and well-saturated, bright highlights are genuinely bright, and the blacks are as deep and absolute as you would expect from an OLED. The overall brightness, while not the highest among OLED monitors in this class, is more than adequate for typical indoor use. Direct sunlight or a window-facing setup might expose its limits, but in a controlled environment it holds up very well.
There is, however, one significant frustration that has nothing to do with the panel itself, and it genuinely affects daily usability. The G32P5 has no per-input memory. Every setting you configure – brightness, color gamut, preset, color temp – applies globally across all inputs simultaneously. Connect a MacBook via USB-C for work and a Windows PC via HDMI for gaming, and you cannot store different image profiles for each.
Switching from a lower-brightness, sRGB-calibrated setup on the Mac to a higher-brightness, Normal gamut configuration on the Windows machine means manually adjusting multiple settings every single time you switch. Making this worse is that Color Temp and Color Gamut are independent of the Preset selection, so you can’t even partially work around it by saving everything into a single preset. You have to change them separately, every time. For a monitor at this price point targeting users who are likely to have more than one device on their desk, this is a meaningful oversight and one we hope KTC addresses in a firmware update.
OLED Care Options, and Some Specific Annoyances
As with any OLED monitor, the G32P5 comes with a suite of burn-in prevention tools, and KTC has covered the expected bases here. You get Pixel Refresher, OLED Expert, Screensaver, Screen Movement, and Auto Brightness. Most of these work as advertised, but a few of the implementation details are rough around the edges in ways that are worth knowing about.
The Pixel Refresher is set to trigger automatically after every four hours of use, which is a reasonable interval. The problem is how it handles situations where you are still actively using the display when that timer runs out. Rather than waiting for a natural break or queuing the refresh for the next standby period, it throws up a pop-up asking for permission to run. You can dismiss it, but if you are mid-match in a competitive game, that interruption can be extremely disruptive. Having the remote nearby helps, but it shouldn’t need to. A simple option to defer until the next standby would solve this entirely. On the positive side, the Pixel Refresher does appear to run automatically during standby – indicated by a blinking white LED on the front of the monitor – so if your usage patterns give it regular opportunities to run unattended, the pop-up issue becomes less of a concern.
The Distance Sensor adds another layer of complexity here. When it detects you have stepped away from the monitor, it can trigger the Pixel Refresher automatically – which sounds sensible in theory. In practice, if you come back and want to interrupt a refresh that’s already underway, you will find the monitor unwilling to do so. You either wait it out or force the monitor off and back on, neither of which is ideal.
OLED Expert is described in its on-screen prompt as performing an “OLED professional compensation,” which doesn’t tell you a great deal. It appears to be a shorter panel maintenance routine compared to the full Pixel Refresher, likely intended for situations where you notice image retention or uniformity issues during use. We left it on Auto and didn’t have any issues.
Auto Brightness is perhaps the most noticeable quirk in day-to-day use. Even with the setting turned off, the display will still dim meaningfully if it detects a largely static image on screen for an extended period – and this is particularly pronounced with bright, white-heavy content like a word processor or a browser with lots of text. Writing this review, for instance, the panel became visibly dimmer after 5 or so mins. It recovers as soon as the image starts moving again, so in practice it’s more of a mild annoyance than a genuine problem, but it can be disconcerting if you are not expecting it.
One additional issue worth flagging, even if it isn’t fully reproducible. On several occasions, waking the monitor from standby using the input selection button on the remote triggered a series of visual glitches – the OSD cycling in and out erratically, artifacts appearing on screen, and the display generally behaving as though it couldn’t decide what state it was supposed to be in. Getting it back to normal required repeatedly pressing the power button until the display shuts off. This didn’t happen consistently, and interestingly, it seemed to stop occurring after switching the USB Sleep Power option to Off in the Advanced Settings menu. Whether that was the actual cause or simply a coincidence, we can’t say with certainty, but if you run into similar behavior, that setting is worth trying first.
The Verdict
The KTC G32P5 is a monitor that gets a lot of the important things right, and stumbles on some of the things that shouldn’t be this hard to get right at this price point.
The display itself is genuinely excellent. The W-OLED MLA+ panel delivers the infinite contrast and vivid colors that make OLED worth pursuing in the first place, HDR content looks spectacular, and the combination of 4K at 240Hz and 1080p at 480Hz gives you meaningful flexibility depending on what you’re doing. The feature list — USB-C with 65W PD, built-in KVM, integrated speakers, remote control, human presence sensor, RGB lighting — is the kind of package you’d expect from a monitor costing significantly more, and the fact that KTC has bundled all of it together at around AED 2,938 is genuinely impressive.
But then there’s the other side of the ledger. The lack of per-input memory is a real problem for anyone running more than one device, and it’s the sort of thing that will grind on you every single day. The Pixel Refresher pop-up management needs work. The OSD joystick placement is awkward. The standby glitching, even if it has a workaround, shouldn’t be something a user has to discover and troubleshoot themselves. And the brightness dimming behavior on static content, while understandable from an OLED longevity standpoint, is more aggressive than it needs to be.
None of these issues are fatal, and for a single-PC gaming setup where you’re not constantly switching between different input configurations, most of them fade into the background. The display quality alone makes a strong case for the G32P5 in that context. But for users who want a versatile desktop monitor that handles multiple devices gracefully and just works without friction, the G32P5 asks for a bit more patience than it should.