LG has introduced a brand new 40-inch Thunderbolt 5 monitor with an ultrawide 21:9 facet ratio, and the corporate is being very upfront about who it’s for: individuals who love crunching information and need extra room to do this. The brand new LG UltraFine 40WT95UF is designed to “meet the wants of data-intensive industries similar to finance and IT,” according to a release from the corporate at present. However it might nonetheless enchantment far past that, with a 120Hz refresh charge and help for AMD’s FreeSync Premium to assist scale back display screen tearing and flickering.
Though LG is selling the 40WT95UF because the “world’s first 5K2K monitor to help Thunderbolt 5,” it’s not the corporate’s first show to include the most recent iteration of the high-speed switch protocol. The corporate previously announced another UltraFine model with Thunderbolt 5 support at CES 2025 with a 6K decision. The mannequin introduced at present options barely much less decision at 5,120×2,160 pixels, however unfold throughout a a lot wider panel making it higher fitted to organizing and laying out a number of home windows and purposes.
Sadly, as with the announcement of the 6K show in January, LG hasn’t mentioned when its new UltraFine 40WT95UF will ship, how a lot it would value, or who will have the ability to buy one. LG’s press launch says the show will assist strengthen the corporate’s “B2B market presence” which may doubtlessly imply this new mannequin received’t be offered on to shoppers.
Different options of the UltraFine 40WT95UF embody each picture-in-picture and picture-by-picture performance, LG’s IPS Black panel know-how, and USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, DisplayPort 2.1, and RJ45 ports. When utilizing the monitor’s Thunderbolt 5 USB-C port information switch speeds of as much as 80Gbps can be accessible. LG doesn’t particularly say whether or not Intel’s Bandwidth Boost mode is supported, which may increase switch speeds to as much as 120Gbps.