LG Display’s new 240 Hz RGB stripe OLED panel could fix one of OLED’s biggest monitor issues
It looks like LG Display has more in stock for CES 2026 than the new Tandem WOLED panel sizes. The company has announced it will showcase a new OLED panel that aims to improve text clarity, something that has been an issue with most OLED monitors.
To recap, LG Display's WOLED panels use an additional white subpixel alongside the RGB subpixels to increase the panel brightness but this design also reduces text clarity and can cause color fringing (red, green, and blue halos) around text. Samsung’s QD-OLED panels offer slightly better text and edge clarity than WOLEDs, but their triangular RGB pixel structure still produces some fringing, especially on Windows, where ClearType is not fully optimized.
True RGB OLED for better text clarity
The new LG Display RGB stripe OLED panel uses a true RGB subpixel layout, with the red, green, and blue subpixels arranged in a straight line. LG Display claims it "significantly reduces visual distortions such as color bleeding and fringing, even at close viewing distances." More importantly, LG Display says the panel is "optimized for operating systems such as Windows and for font-rendering engines, ensuring excellent text readability and high color accuracy."
Understandably, this is not the first OLED panel to use an RGB stripe subpixel layout, but earlier models were capped at 60 Hz. LG Display’s new panel combines a native 4K resolution with a 240 Hz refresh rate, which can switch to 480 Hz at 1080p, making it well suited for both gaming and productivity workloads, including text editing and professional design work. That said, TCL CSOT is also working on an RGB OLED panel that could compete with LG Display’s latest design.
LG Display plans to showcase the new 240Hz RGB stripe OLED panel at CES in January.
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