LG's 1,000 Hz UltraGear Monitor Arrives With a $1,000 Price Tag

A Refresh Rate That Doubles as a Price Tag

LG has opened preorders for the UltraGear 25G590B, a 25-inch gaming monitor that runs natively at 1,000 Hz and carries a price of $1,000, according to reporting by Tom’s Hardware. The symmetry is either poetic or a little alarming depending on how you feel about triple-digit refresh rates and what they do to a wallet.

The monitor runs at 1080p resolution, which, at this point in the hardware cycle, feels almost quaint for a four-figure display. But that is somewhat the point. Pushing frames at 1,000 Hz demands an enormous amount of work from both the panel and the GPU feeding it, and lower resolutions make that computational load far more manageable. Competitive players chasing every millisecond of input advantage have long favored 1080p for exactly this reason.

Why 1,000 Hz Actually Matters to Some People

For casual players, a four-digit refresh rate probably sounds like marketing theater. For a specific slice of the gaming audience, though, it is anything but. Esports professionals and serious competitors in titles like CS2, Valorant, or any fast-twitch shooter have pushed the industry toward higher and higher refresh rates for years. The jump from 60 Hz to 144 Hz was transformative. The step to 240 Hz and then 360 Hz each brought diminishing but still measurable returns in motion clarity and perceived responsiveness.

Whether 1,000 Hz represents a meaningful leap over current 500 Hz or 360 Hz panels is a question that hands-on testing will need to answer. What LG is emphasizing here, as Tom’s Hardware notes, is that this is a native 1,000 Hz panel, not one achieving the number through interpolation or other frame-multiplication techniques. That distinction matters to the competitive community, which has learned to read the fine print on refresh rate claims.

The 25-Inch Form Factor and What It Signals

The 25-inch screen size is a deliberate choice for this kind of product. Tournament players have long gravitated toward smaller displays that keep the entire play area within a tight field of view, reducing the need to move your eyes far across the screen during fast engagements. A 24 or 25-inch monitor at 1080p is practically standard kit at the professional level, which suggests LG is pitching this squarely at that audience rather than the home theater or productivity crowd.

A $1,000 price for a 25-inch 1080p display is, by any mainstream measure, steep. High-quality 1440p and 4K monitors with fast refresh rates can be had for considerably less. But LG is not really competing in that segment with this product. The 25G590B is targeting a narrower group of buyers for whom the technology itself, and the marginal performance edge it might provide, justifies the cost.

Preorders Are Open Now

As of this reporting, preorders for the LG UltraGear 25G590B are live, according to Tom’s Hardware. The monitor joins a small but growing category of extreme-refresh-rate displays that have been pushing panel technology into territory that would have seemed implausible even a few years ago.

For the competitive gaming community, the arrival of native 1,000 Hz at retail, even at this price, is a meaningful milestone. Whether it becomes a mainstream product or remains a prestige item for the most dedicated players will likely depend on how the price moves over time and what independent testing reveals about real-world performance gains at that refresh ceiling.