LG 32GP850-B/32GP83B-B Monitor Review

This monitor has a clean, simple design, with red accents on the stand and slim bezels on three sides.

This monitor has decent built quality. It is almost entirely plastic, and although there's a bit of flex to some parts and the cable management is a bit cheap, it feels sturdy.

The stand has decent ergonomics if you need to adjust the screen for yourself, but without swivel adjustment, it's hard to turn the screen to show something to someone next to you. The back of the monitor is simple, with a red ring around the back, but it doesn't have RGB lighting. There's a hook on the back of the monitor for cable management, but it's pretty basic.

This monitor has a chevron-shaped stand that doesn't lie completely flat against the table, but it still supports the screen well.

There's a joystick underneath the center of the monitor to control the on-screen display.

• DisplayPort cable
• HDMI cable
• USB-B to USB-A cable
• Power cable
• User manuals, including driver CD and calibration report

This monitor has mediocre contrast, so blacks look gray next to bright highlights in a dark room. It doesn't have a local dimming feature to further improve it, either.

This monitor doesn't have a local dimming feature. We still film these videos on the monitor so that you can compare the backlight performance with a monitor that has local dimming.

The brightness is great, and it gets bright enough to fight glare in well-lit rooms. There's no variation in brightness with different content, which is great. These measurements are from after calibration in the 'Gamer 1' Picture Mode, with the backlight at max.

The HDR brightness is okay. It isn't much brighter than in SDR, and small highlights don't pop against the rest of the image. The PQ EOTF tracking isn't entirely accurate either, as most content is brighter than intended.

These measurements are from the 'Gamer 1' Picture Mode, with the backlight at max.

This monitor has a great horizontal viewing angle. It's good enough if you want to share the screen with someone next to you, as the image remains consistent from the sides.

The vertical viewing angle is okay. While the image washes out from really wide angles, it's still fine if you're standing up and looking down on the monitor.

The gray uniformity is great. While there isn't much dirty screen effect in the center, the edges are darker, which you can notice with full-screen webpages or documents.

This monitor has mediocre black uniformity. The entire screen is a bit cloudy, and there's some backlight bleed along the bottom edge. This can be distracting in dark scenes.

The accuracy before calibration in the sRGB mode is excellent. Gamma follows the sRGB target curve well, but all scenes are brighter than they should be. White balance and all colors are accurate, and the color temperature is close to the 6500K target. Unfortunately, using the sRGB mode locks many settings, including Response Time and Motion Blur Reduction, so you'll need to use another, less accurate mode if you want access to those settings.

This monitor has outstanding accuracy after calibration, and you won't notice any inaccuracies.

The SDR color gamut is fantastic. It has perfect coverage of the sRGB color space used by most desktop and web content. Coverage of the wider Adobe RGB color space is great, but it oversaturates reds and undersaturates greens.

This monitor has an excellent HDR color gamut. It can display nearly the entire DCI-P3 color space used by most current HDR content. However, coverage of the wider Rec. 2020 color space is more limited, though, and it undersaturates most colors.

The HDR color volume is decent, but it struggles to display bright and dark colors well.

The text clarity is decent. Using Windows ClearType (top photo) helps improve text clarity, as curved and diagonal lines are harder to see without it.

The reflection handling is great. The matte finish diffuses light across the screen, so direct reflections aren't really noticeable unless you're in a really bright room.

This monitor has outstanding gradient handling. There's some minor banding in darker shades, but it's barely noticeable.

This monitor has an overclock feature to increase its refresh rate to 180Hz, but the LG 32GP83B variant doesn't have this. However, you can't use it at the same time as the backlight strobing feature.

This monitor has good motion handling across its VRR range. The 'Fast' Response Time provides the best performance for most refresh rates, but it introduces inverse ghosting at lower refresh rates. If that bothers you, the 'Normal' setting is more consistent across the entire refresh rate range, but it has more blur at high refresh rates.

The refresh rate compliance is good. While its response time isn't fast enough to make full color transitions before the monitor draws the next frame at high refresh rates, it's better at 60Hz.

The CAD at the max refresh rate of 180Hz is very good. Motion looks sharp without much blur trail behind fast-moving objects, and the recommended overdrive setting of 'Fast' has the fastest total response time and no noticeable inverse ghosting.

The CAD at 120Hz is good. Motion looks sharp, but unlike at its max refresh rate, the 'Fast' overdrive setting has some inverse ghosting. The 'Normal' setting is better if that bothers you, but it has more blur.

The CAD at 60Hz is good. Unlike at higher refresh rates, the recommended overdrive setting is 'Normal' because 'Fast' has too much noticeable inverse ghosting, so you may have to change the settings if you switch games or sources.

This monitor has an optional backlight strobing feature, also known as black frame insertion (BFI), but the LG 32GP83B variant doesn't have it. It's pretty limited as it only works within a narrow refresh rate range, and you can't use it at the same time as VRR. The photo above is at 165Hz, and you can also see it at 120Hz here. If you want something with a more versatile feature, check out the Gigabyte M32Q instead.

There's minimal VRR flicker with changing frame rates, which is excellent for gaming.

The backlight is completely flicker-free at all backlight levels, which can help reduce eye strain if you're sensitive to it.

This monitor has outstanding low input lag, resulting in a very responsive gaming experience.

When we initially tested this monitor for 1440p support on the PS5 in April 2023, we couldn't get 1440p to work at all. However, it worked when we checked again in June 2024. That being said, if you're having any issues, check to see if you have the PS5 updated to the latest firmware, as that may fix the problem.

This monitor supports downscaled 4k signals, which is useful because the Xbox Series X|S only supports HDR in 4k.

Unlike the LG 32GP83B-B variant, this monitor has two USB-A ports.

For the most part, this monitor works well with macOS. VRR works well, with no noticeable flickering both in-game and while on the desktop. That said, HDR looks washed out, which is both a limitation of the monitor's HDR performance and of macOS itself.

This monitor has a few additional features available, most of them gaming-oriented. Some of them include:

• Virtual crosshair: There are four virtual crosshairs to choose from. Unlike software virtual crosshairs, these can't be detected by your games.
• Black stabilizer: Adjusts gamma to make it easier to spot other players/enemies in shadows.