The LG 34GP950G-B is a great ultrawide gaming monitor with a 34 inch IPS panel. It's part of LG's popular UltraGear lineup of gaming monitors, delivering an impressive gaming experience with an outstanding response time at the max refresh rate, fantastic low input lag, and a few extra gaming features. It natively supports NVIDIA's G-SYNC variable refresh rate technology, and it also works with AMD's FreeSync technology, but FreeSync doesn't work over HDMI on this model. Like most IPS monitors, it has wide viewing angles but sub-par contrast, so it's not the best choice for gaming in the dark. It does have a local dimming feature that's supposed to improve dark-scene performance, but it's pretty bad, and most people will want to leave it disabled. It looks great in bright rooms, with impressive peak brightness in SDR and decent reflection handling. It's a great choice if you care about accurate colors, as it has amazing accuracy out of the box, a superb SDR color gamut, and incredible gradient handling, with no noticeable banding at all.
Our Verdict
The LG 34GP950G-B is a great monitor overall. It's very good for office use, with a large, high-resolution screen and decent text clarity. It's also a very good choice for watching movies, and it's great for media creation, with a wide color gamut and superb gradient handling. It's an impressive gaming monitor with low input lag, an outstanding response time at the max refresh rate, and a few extra gaming features. Although it has a local dimming feature, it's pretty bad. It also has low contrast, so it's not a good choice for a dark room.
- Low input lag.
- Impressive peak brightness.
- Image remains accurate at an angle.
- Stand can't swivel or rotate to portrait orientation.
The LG 34GP950G-B is a very good office monitor. It offers a great amount of screen space to work with, it has impressive peak brightness and decent reflection handling, so glare shouldn't be an issue. It has good text clarity, although there may be some minor text issues in certain apps. The stand has limited ergonomics, though, so it's not the best for a multimonitor setup. It's great if your work requires accurate colors, as it has amazing accuracy out of the box and incredible gradient handling.
- Excellent gray uniformity.
- Superb SDR color gamut and volume.
- Impressive peak brightness.
- Image remains accurate at an angle.
- Stand can't swivel or rotate to portrait orientation.
The LG 34GP950G-B is an impressive gaming monitor. It has an outstanding response time at the max refresh rate, and even at 60Hz, it's superb. It has fantastic low input lag for a responsive gaming experience. It supports NVIDIA's G-SYNC variable refresh rate technology, and it also appears to work with AMD's FreeSync technology. The large, high-resolution ultrawide screen delivers a more immersive gaming experience, and it has wide viewing angles, which is important if you ever share your screen for co-op gaming.
- Outstanding response time.
- Low input lag.
- Native G-SYNC support.
- Bad local dimming.
- Blacks appear gray in a dark room.
The LG 34GP950G is a very good monitor for watching videos. The large, high-resolution screen delivers a more immersive movie-watching experience, and it has decent viewing angles, so you can watch movies with a few friends without the image degrading for people sitting off-center. It has decent reflection handling but impressive peak brightness in SDR, so glare shouldn't be an issue if you're watching videos in a bright room. It also has excellent gray uniformity and fantastic low input lag. Unfortunately, it's not the best choice for watching in the dark, as it has low contrast.
- Excellent gray uniformity.
- Low input lag.
- Image remains accurate at an angle.
The LG 34GP950G is a great monitor for media creation. The large, high-resolution screen makes it easier to see more of your work at once. It has decent viewing angles, so you don't have to worry about the image degrading at an angle. It also has amazing accuracy out of the box, a superb SDR color gamut with excellent coverage of the Adobe RGB color space, and it has incredible gradient handling. The stand isn't very versatile, though, as you can't swivel it to show it to someone else.
- Excellent gray uniformity.
- Superb SDR color gamut and volume.
- Incredible gradient handling.
- Image remains accurate at an angle.
- Stand can't swivel or rotate to portrait orientation.
The LG 34GP950G-B is a decent HDR monitor. It displays a wide range of colors in HDR and gets bright enough to make highlights stand out. However, it has a low native contrast ratio that makes blacks look gray. While it has a local dimming feature to further improve the black levels, it performs terribly, and there's blooming around bright objects.
- Impressive peak brightness.
- Bad local dimming.
- Blacks appear gray in a dark room.
Changelog
- Updated Apr 18, 2023: Tested the monitor's compatibility with 1440p on the PS5, but it doesn't work.
- Updated Mar 28, 2023: Clarified text throughout as part of Test Bench 1.2, including adding text to the Console Compatibility boxes.
- Updated May 27, 2022: Updated to Test Bench 1.2, resulting in changes to the results and scores with the Response Time and Input Lag. Added tests for Console Compatibility and macOS compatibility and made minor changes to other tests, which you can see in our Changelog.
- Updated Oct 22, 2021: We changed the FreeSync support from 'Yes' to 'Compatible (Tested)'.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We tested the LG 34GP950G-B 34 inch ultrawide gaming monitor, which is part of LG's UltraGear gaming lineup. There are many other monitors in LG's UltraGear lineup with various configurations, some of which you can see in the table below. As they each have different specs, we don't expect our review to be valid for any of the other models.
| Model | Size | Panel Type | Resolution | Max Refresh Rate | VRR Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34GP950G | 34" | IPS | 3440 x 1440 | 180Hz | G-SYNC (Native) |
| 34GP83A-B | 34" | IPS | 3440 x 1440 | 160Hz | Adaptive Sync |
| 32GP850-B | 32" | IPS | 2560 x 1440 | 180Hz | FreeSync |
| 27GP950-B | 27" | IPS | 3840 x 2160 | 160Hz | FreeSync |
| 27GP850-B | 27" | IPS | 2560 x 1440 | 180Hz | FreeSync |
If someone comes across a different type of panel or their LG 34GP950G-B doesn't correspond to our review, let us know and we'll update the review. Note that some tests, like gray uniformity, may vary between individual units.
Our unit was manufactured in June 2021; you can see the label here.
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The LG 34GP950G is a great ultrawide gaming monitor that delivers a smooth and responsive gaming experience. It has an outstanding response time and fantastic low input lag but doesn't really stand out from the competition. It has a limited selection of inputs and few additional gaming features.
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The LG 38GL950G-B and the LG 34GP950G-B are very similar overall. The 34GP950G-B has a slightly faster response time at the max refresh rate, and it's a bit better for HDR, with higher peak brightness and a wider color gamut. The 38GL950G-B is slightly better for office use, with a larger, higher resolution screen, and it supports picture in picture and picture by picture, so you can view two sources at once.
The LG 34GP950G-B is slightly better than the Dell Alienware AW3821DW. The LG has a slightly faster refresh rate and a much faster response time, with significantly less overshoot. The Dell, on the other hand, has better ergonomics, it feels better-built, and it has better connectivity, with an additional HDMI port and two extra USB ports.
The LG 34GP950G-B and the Dell Alienware AW3423DW are both ultrawide gaming monitors with different displays. The LG is an LED-backlit monitor that gets brighter than the Dell, which has a QD-OLED display with perfect black levels. Motion handling is also better on the Dell thanks to the near-instantaneous response time, and it displays a wider range of colors with better accuracy. However, the LG has better text clarity because it uses a standard RGB layout, while the Dell has a triangular subpixel layout.
The LG 38GN950-B and the LG 34GP950G-B are very similar overall. The 38GN950-B has a larger, higher resolution screen which some people might prefer. The 34GP950G-B might be better for gamers with an NVIDIA card, as it has native support for G-SYNC, so it supports a few extra features, including variable overdrive.
We buy and test more than 30 monitors each year, all of which we purchase ourselves, without cherry-picked units or samples. We put a lot into each unbiased, straight-to-the-point review, and there's a whole process from purchasing to publishing, involving multiple teams and people. We do more than just use the monitor for a week; we use specialized, custom tools to measure various aspects and deliver objective, data-driven results. We also consider multiple factors before making any recommendations, including the monitor's cost, its performance compared to the competition, and whether it's easy to find.
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