LG and Samsung Showcase Brightness Breakthroughs in OLED Technology at CES 2025

Both companies reveal advancements in OLED panel brightness, with potential implications for PC monitors and TVs.

LG introduces a new 4-stack OLED panel for its flagship G5 TV series, claiming up to three times the brightness in certain scenarios compared to its previous generation.
Samsung unveils its 5-stack QD-OLED panel, achieving up to 390 nits full-screen brightness, edging closer to the 400-nit benchmark for SDR displays.
The advancements in OLED brightness technology could address long-standing issues with full-screen brightness in PC monitors, paving the way for improved performance in future models.
LG's UltraFine 6K display, also announced at CES, features Thunderbolt 5 support and a Nano IPS Black panel, promising wide color gamut and potential competition with Apple's Pro Display XDR.
While LG and Samsung's new OLED technologies are promising, some details about their implementation in smaller PC monitors remain speculative and unconfirmed.