LG Display's 720Hz OLED panel is built for esports
LG Display has begun mass production of a 24.5-inch 720Hz OLED panel made for esports, and ASUS has already built a monitor around it.
What LG Display has put into production
LG Display says it has started mass production of a 24.5-inch gaming OLED panel that runs at 720Hz, and its own announcement calls it the first OLED panel built specifically for esports rather than adapted from a general-purpose screen.
The numbers in the release are the ones the company is leading with: 720Hz, which it describes as the world's highest refresh rate among gaming OLED displays, and a 0.02ms response time. Both figures are LG Display's own claims for its panel, published on 21 September 2026 from Seoul.
Refresh rate is the number of times per second a screen redraws, so 720Hz means 720 updates every second. LG Display says it developed a proprietary driving algorithm to hold that rate at FHD (1920x1080) rather than only at lower resolutions, and that the panel keeps picture quality at speed by lighting each pixel independently, which is the core advantage OLED has over a backlit LCD.
Why 24.5 inches is the interesting part
The size is not a compromise, it is the point. LG Display's release notes that esports monitors are mostly in the 24-inch class because players want to take in the whole screen at a glance, and that is a size where OLED has barely appeared. A 720Hz panel in a 27-inch or 32-inch shell would be a halo product; a 720Hz panel at 24.5 inches is an attempt to move OLED into the screen size competitive players actually buy.
LG Display says it plans to push further with a lineup running from the 20-inch to the 40-inch class, with some models using its Dynamic Frequency & Resolution technology, which lets a panel switch resolution and refresh rate depending on what is being shown.
The first monitor is ASUS, and the first stage is a Counter-Strike major
The panel's first home is the ROG Swift OLED PG259QWS Ace, a new monitor from ASUS. LG Display states that this screen has been picked as the esports monitor for PGL CS2 Major Singapore 2026, one of the biggest events on the Counter-Strike 2 calendar, which gives the panel a very public audition in front of players who will notice motion blur, flicker or dimming immediately.
"As a technology-driven company, we will lead the transition to OLED in the gaming monitor market and lead the mainstreaming of OLED in the global market," said Hyeon-woo Lee, head of LG Display's Large Display Business Unit.
What the announcement does not include is a price, a date for either the panel or the ASUS monitor, or any detail on how many of these panels LG Display expects to make. For now the commitment is production capacity and a tournament slot rather than a product you can order.
Our opinion
Refresh-rate bragging rights have outrun what most people can actually use, and 720Hz is the clearest example yet. Holding that frame rate at 1080p needs a graphics card doing something no mainstream GPU manages in a modern shooter, so almost nobody buying this monitor will run it flat out. That is not really the point, though. The gap OLED has never closed is the low-cost, small, fast panel bracket that esports actually lives in, and putting a 24.5-inch OLED on a Counter-Strike major stage is a far better argument for the technology than a spec sheet. The thing worth watching is price: OLED has spent years being the premium choice in a category where players replace monitors rarely and budget accordingly, and LG Display is clearly betting that a tournament-proven panel can change that maths.