LG UltraGear 24G414B-B: Specs, Price, Pros & Cons
LG's own spec table gives the game away in a single row. Response time is printed as "1ms MBR, 5ms (GtG at Faster)", which says plainly that the one millisecond in the marketing is a motion blur reduction mode strobing the backlight, and that the panel's actual grey-to-grey figure is five. Both numbers are honest; only one of them describes the liquid crystal. Our table records the five, because that is the pixel response a buyer is comparing against other monitors.
Past that, this is a small and deliberately plain gaming display. Twenty-four inches, 1920 by 1080, an IPS panel at 144 Hz with ninety-nine percent sRGB coverage and a contrast ratio of fifteen hundred to one, which is a little better than IPS usually manages. Brightness tops out around two hundred and fifty nits. It carries an HDR10 label, but at that brightness and with no dimming zones the label is a signal format rather than an effect you will notice.
One word in the retail listing is worth untangling. The Switch in the product name is LG Switch, a desktop utility that splits the screen into layouts and launches calls. It is not a Nintendo console feature and it is not a KVM. There is no USB hub here at all, and exactly one HDMI 2.0 and one DisplayPort 1.4, so a machine per input is the limit.
Where it does better than its price bracket usually allows is the stand, which adjusts for height as well as tilt rather than the fixed slab that cheaper UltraGear models ship with. Stereo speakers and a headphone output round it out. For a second screen, a child's first gaming monitor or a small desk, that is a sensible set of priorities.
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Where the LG UltraGear 24G414B-B beats the average
- Has built-in speakers ?
- Has motion blur reduction ?
- Has height adjustment ?
- Has headphone output ?
- Has variable refresh rate ?
Where the LG UltraGear 24G414B-B trails the average
- A much slower response time ?5 ms vs 1.46 ms (avg)
- A much lower contrast ratio ?1500:1 vs 499721:1 (avg)
- Much lower peak brightness ?250 nits vs 677.45 nits (avg)
- A lower refresh rate ?144 Hz vs 213.58 Hz (avg)
- A smaller screen ?24" (60.96 cm) vs 28.97" (73.58 cm) (avg)
- No USB hub ?
- No USB-C ?
- Fewer HDMI ports ?1 vs 1.7 (avg)
- No swivel adjustment ?
- No pivot adjustment ?
Editor’s note
At this end of the market the useful question is not what a monitor does well but what it gives up, and this one gives up less than most. The height-adjustable stand is the part I would actually pay for. Cheap monitors almost always fix the panel at one height and leave you propping it on books, and LG's own slightly cheaper 24G411A-B does exactly that. Getting the top of the screen to eye level matters more to how a desk feels over a year than any figure in the table above.
The contrast ratio is a quiet point in its favour too. IPS panels usually land around a thousand to one and this one is rated half again as high, which will not turn it into an OLED but does mean dark scenes look less washed out than the panel type's reputation suggests.
What I would not do is buy it for anything involving colour. LG publishes sRGB coverage and nothing else, which is the manufacturer telling you politely that wider gamut work is not what this panel is for. The single video input of each type is the other practical limit – there is no hub, so a console and a PC means reaching behind the monitor.
For a first gaming monitor, a second screen beside a larger one, or a small desk where twenty-seven inches would be too close to the face, this is a sensible thing to buy. Anyone with room and a little more to spend should look at the 27-inch version of the same family instead, which keeps the adjustable stand and gives back the screen area.
Specifications
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Where the specifications come from
- Official product pagelg.com
- Retailer listing (cross-check)amazon.com
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- 36 of 42 specifications verified; the rest show as Unknown and are never estimated or scored
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- Research-based: specifications and editorial text were compiled from the documents listed here and the manufacturer’s published data. We have not tested this unit ourselves; where independent measurements are mentioned they belong to the linked publication.
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The bottom line
The LG UltraGear 24G414B-B earns a VS Score of 29, trailing most of the 102 monitors we compare here, at least on the spec sheet.
- Who it’s for
- A buyer setting up a first gaming PC on a tight budget, or anyone wanting a properly adjustable second screen next to a larger main display without spending much.
- Who should look elsewhere
- Anyone doing photo or video work who needs coverage beyond sRGB, and anyone who wants to drive a console and a computer from one screen – with a single HDMI and a single DisplayPort and no hub, you will be swapping cables.
- The trade-off that matters
- The advertised one millisecond is a strobing mode, not the panel's five millisecond pixel response, so motion is good for the money rather than genuinely fast. At this price that is a fair deal, but it is not the monitor the box describes.
- The main alternative
- LG 24G411A-B – the same size and panel family for less money, worth it only if you will wall-mount or already have an arm, because it drops the height-adjustable stand for a fixed one.
The VS Score is calculated from the weighted specifications above, compared with every other monitor we track — a shortlisting guide, not a substitute for your own priorities. See how we score.
