Like previous LG OLEDs, the LG G5 uses a WOLED panel, but this 2025 model brings some big improvements. This is the first TV to use LG’s new primary RGB tandem OLED panel, which is designed to increase color purity and increase the range of colors the TV displays. It still utilizes a white subpixel to increase brightness, but it doesn’t dilute color purity nearly as much, so you get much better separation between blues, greens, and reds. However, colors still aren’t as pure as they are on QD-OLEDs.

LG also changed the subpixel layout. Instead of the RWBG layout they’ve been using since they first introduced their OLED panels, the G5 is different. It looks to be an RGBW layout, but the first subpixel is blue, so we’re classifying it as a BWRG layout. If you want to see a closer look at this new subpixel arrangement, we took a video.

Unfortunately, there are diagonal lines that appear as a result of dithering. These lines are quite apparent when watching content or playing games if you’re sitting close to the screen, but the lines aren’t nearly as visible from a normal viewing distance. You can see these lines for yourself by watching this slow-motion video we captured. Keep in mind that this video was captured at 1000fps on our Chronos 2.1-HD High Speed Camera, so the video is almost 42 times slower than real content at 24fps, which makes the diagonal lines a lot more noticeable. You can also see an example of this dithering by alternating between this photo and this photo. 

Note that the 97-inch model doesn’t utilize this new technology and uses a traditional WOLED panel.