LG’s first 5K ultra-wide monitor with Thunderbolt 5 is made for data crunchers

This is LG’s archetypal 5K show to get a Thunderbolt 5 upgrade. | Image: LG

LG has announced a caller 40-inch Thunderbolt 5 show with an ultrawide 21:9 facet ratio, and the institution is being precise upfront astir who it’s for: radical who emotion crunching information and privation much country to bash that. The caller LG UltraFine 40WT95UF is designed to “meet the needs of data-intensive industries specified arsenic concern and IT,” according to a release from the institution today. But it whitethorn inactive entreaty acold beyond that, with a 120Hz refresh complaint and enactment for AMD’s FreeSync Premium to assistance trim surface tearing and flickering.

Although LG is promoting the 40WT95UF arsenic the “world’s archetypal 5K2K show to enactment Thunderbolt 5,” it’s not the company’s archetypal show to incorporated the latest iteration of the high-speed transportation protocol. The institution previously announced different UltraFine exemplary with Thunderbolt 5 support astatine CES 2025 with a 6K resolution. The exemplary announced contiguous features somewhat little solution astatine 5,120×2,160 pixels, but dispersed crossed a overmuch wider sheet making it amended suited for organizing and laying retired aggregate windows and applications.

Unfortunately, arsenic with the announcement of the 6K show successful January, LG hasn’t said erstwhile its caller UltraFine 40WT95UF volition ship, however overmuch it volition cost, oregon who volition beryllium capable to acquisition one. LG’s property merchandise says the show volition assistance fortify the company’s “B2B marketplace presence” which could perchance mean this caller exemplary won’t beryllium sold straight to consumers.

Other features of the UltraFine 40WT95UF see some picture-in-picture and picture-by-picture functionality, LG’s IPS Black sheet technology, and USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, DisplayPort 2.1, and RJ45 ports. When utilizing the monitor’s Thunderbolt 5 USB-C larboard information transportation speeds of up to 80Gbps volition beryllium available. LG doesn’t specifically accidental whether Intel’s Bandwidth Boost mode is supported, which tin boost transportation speeds to up to 120Gbps.