The battle for the best gaming monitor at CES 2026 is gonna be a close call between Samsung and LG. The former will be showing off its 32-inch 6K glasses-free Odyssey 3D gaming monitor, whereas the latter is going jumbo-sized with the 52-inch UltraGear evo G9 52G930B.
The monstrous 12:9 gaming monitor boasts a 5K2K resolution, a 240Hz refresh rate, and a 1000R curve to engulf you in its pixels. An “industry-first” 5K AI upscaling feature can reportedly fine-tune blacks, brightness, and resolution to look extra sharp and immersive. It all sounds good on paper, but you may need to get a bigger desk just to keep it firmly planted.
Not quite as large, but still pretty damn huge, is the 39-inch UltraGear evo GX9 (39GX950B). This is also a 5K2K gaming monitor, but it’s OLED, so you will get deeper blacks and higher contrast. It uses LG’s Tandem OLED display tech and, like Samsung’s Odyssey gaming monitors, also has a Dual Mode that can switch refresh rates between native and a lower resolution—165Hz native and 330Hz at WFHD resolution.
With a 1500R curve, the 21:9 display is less curved than the 52-inch UltraGear evo 52G930B. It also has a 0.03ms Gray-to-Gray (GtG) response time for the lowest latency in gaming.
The smallest new LG UltraGear evo gaming monitor is the GM9 (27GM950B), a 27-incher also with 5K resolution, but it uses mini LED display tech. LG says the monitor’s 2,304 local dimming zones and reduced gap between the panel and LED “dramatically” reduce the amount of blooming—the glow that bleeds from a bright area of the screen onto its darker parts—when displaying content. As always, it’s big talk, so we’ll need to see for ourselves whether the blooming has really been improved.
Like the UltraGear evo GX9, the GM9 supports Dual Mode refresh rates—165Hz at 5K and 330Hz at QHD resolution. It has a slower 1ms GtG response time.
That’s the extent of what we know about LG’s family of new UltraGear evo gaming monitors. Gizmodo will make sure to have “eyes-on” time with these at CES 2026 in a few weeks.