LG G3 vs. Samsung S95B & Sony A95K | Which Should You Buy?

The LG G3 and its new MLA OLED panel seems like a pretty clear response to the waves created by QD-OLED TVs. In this video, we pit the LG G3 against the Samsung S95B and the Sony A95K -- two of 2022's best TVs -- to see how it stacks up in areas of brightness, contrast, and color. As one of the best TVs of 2023, the LG G3 appears set to take on 2023 QD-OLED TVs like the Sony A95L and Samsung S95C as well.

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00:00 Intro
01:42 QD-OLED Rewind
03:13 MLA Recap
04:39 LG G3 vs. 2022 QD-OLEDs
05:21 Brightness
07:29 Color
08:08 Margins of Difference
10:44 Auto-Brightness Limiter
12:00 Burn-In Risk
12:57 Which Should You Buy?

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[RTINGScomRD]

Great video guys! We just wanted to pop in to clarify that we haven't received the LG G3 we bought for testing yet, so it's not actually part of our Longevity Test. If there's enough interest though, we would definitely consider adding the G3 to the Longevity Test once we finish testing it and publish our review!

[CcTitan]

I quite enjoy these VS videos. Nicely done, keep them coming!

[TheBranchez]

Since I am planning to upgrade my TV soon I have been watching a lot of videos. I am on a watching spree of your videos and I am amazed really. I have learned so much in a very short time. One of the most deserving subs I ever gave.

[lmc]

Your videos and the questions you ask are always ON POINT! That's why I click !

[khobia]

The G3 handles well against the S95C. Surprisingly so. All round the G3 came out throwing blows. Sony is now the dark horse. If they continue to focus on image accuracy rather than brightness then this year it will be pricing wars. All these tvs are amazing. Saw last year’s A95K and S95B at Best Buy also G2 and they are all close in my opinion. Granted can’t study them like you can Caleb but the differences between each as you pointed out isn’t night and day. I’m not a gamer at all but I’m leaning towards the 77” G3. Overall it has the goods.

[Frankr]

A GREAT & HONEST comparison... I liked that you factored in TINT and COLOR also in the comparison. Thanks for you unbiased analysis...you do an OUTSTANDING job with all of your video.

[davelee]

This dude knows what he's doing.. His reviews are truly spectacular.. Like thinking out of the box and compare 2022 Qdoleds and show us the improvement.. Good job

[johnnypopstar]

Liking this video, and the one prior. You're quickly becoming a nice addition to Vincent Teoh's excellent reviews.

[videobandit]

So where was the G3 - A95K comparison?? Didn’t you say that was going to be included at the beginning of the video?

[spags]

Great video Caleb. A comparison of motion handling and processing between QD-OLED and MLA would also be interesting... maybe once all the 2023 models are out!

[Psalter]

Hello Caleb, thank you so much for the incredible amount of knowledge you have shared over time regarding different TV's and why we should or shouldn't by them. I truly appreciate what you do and I think you have one of the coolest jobs in the world! Since becoming a subscriber of your channel I have made a decision that I am going to purchase an LG C2 because of its features that matter to me most and because of budget. Before discovering your channel I had no real data to inform my TV purchases other than brand awareness. Please keep doing what you do and helping the average consumer make very informed purchasing decisions! Like Sy Sims slogan used to say, "an educated consumer is our best customer."

[Saturn]

My issue with Samsung is the horrible support I've received over the years and the fact that they don't care about image accuracy the same way LG does with the correct HDR curves and, HGiG for gaming and MadVR's Envy, etc. I wish there was more competition in this space, but it's always coming down to LG.

[JoelsterGk]

Great video Caleb, both TVs look amazing, I guess we'll have to consider other features to make a good decision between both of them. Loved the video.!!

[delskioffskinov]

Could watch your content for days Caleb! you always do an unbiased review which I trust so keep the content coming and i'll keep consuming lol!

[diracraj]

The best tech YouTube channel around. No BS. No clickbait thumbnails. Just great content.

[SDGRTX]

I got the Samsung S95B and i am not gonna to upgrade the next coming 5 years. Super happy with this one

[neko_samurai]

This is exactly the type of content I want, Caleb!
Hopefully when you review the S95C, you can redo this comparison with that TV. Maybe mention gaming and audio differences as well. This review seemed more tech vs tech rather than TV vs TV. Both are useful comparisons though.

[tylerthere]

I have the S95B and just got the G3. When I compared them in Hdr, I noticed that the S95b pushed highlight brightness more, especially colored highlights, but the G3 had much better high apl scene brightness. The G3 handles skin tones better and doesn't loose as much saturation in low light scenes, but the G3 also exhibits more low light artifacts, banding, flickering, and some areas can looked raised compared to the S95B. Now, with dynamic tone mapping the G3 is unbeatable, for demo content it's really unbelievable how bright this thing can get, I can't watch movies with those settings, but if I feel like wowing myself I set in my custom vivid mode, with Dtm on, dynamic contrast at medium, expression enhancer on detail, color 65 and warm 50. The s95b can't reach the heights this tv can get, but outside of these modes, the s95b looked better for most hdr content on the standard mode.

In Sdr the G3 is a much brighter tv, and funny enough samsung nerfed the sdr brightness in the fmm/movie modes, so I'm now using standard which gets much brighter. Standard mode on the S95b has a really cool version of contrast enhancer that gets rid of that lifted look when set to low. It basically deepens the shadows and tries to give a 3d effect, the G3 does have a settings like this, but you loose some color and blacks get crushed, so the best settings to use to mimic the samsung is to just lower the black level from 50 to 42. I know purists would probably scoff at that, but in sdr it leads to a much more consistent image, and avoids most problems you could have in dark sdr scenes, flicker, banding, etc. So by just lowering the black level, I was able to match the g3 to the s95b and also found that the color handling was much better and skin tones again looked great. On the processing side for sdr, I believe the Samsung is better at cleaning up unwanted artifacts, but I also noticed that it would almost completely remove film grain, if the source wasn't 4k, but in dark scenes the samsung is better at removing noise and banding. The G3 has many more options, but I found that the only one worth using was smooth gradation and I would honestly just max it out, if you mainly stream fhd content. Noise reduction did nothing for me and mpeg noise reduction would take away fine detail, even in 4k content. Sharpness I keep between 10-20. I'd say motion is equal on both tv's, I noticed almost the same amount of stutters, the G3 would have less new scene stutters, but would than stutter randomly in the middle of the scene, and samsung stutter at the beginning of every new panning scene, but is consistent after that.

Gaming, For HDR they're both great, you loose some color brightness on the G3, but you can easily switch to another mode and get it back. Highlights get brighter on the G3, but most scenes look a little darker, but there is more contrast and even a nicer 3 dimensionality to the G3. In Sdr the G3 is unnecessarily capped In its brightness and I needed to fix it, or I would've thrown it out lol. I had to download an app on my pc and connect it to the g3 to unlock the peak brightness setting, which is just so dumb on lg's part... After that it looks great and I really appreciate the accurate representation that lg gives even in game mode and again, you can use fmm mode to get the color brightness back. Imo, the g3 shouldn't be this finicky for gaming, the samsung does everything exactly as it should and the G3 should to. Both the S95B and G3 are great for Hdr gaming and I'd be happy with either, Sdr requires tweaks to the g3 for it to be viable, so I'd say it's worse for sdr gaming, but the option to fix it is there.

[wesleybecknal]

Thank goodness for the return of versus vids!! Hoping for some lcd versus vids too

[LeezahB]

This was excellent!!! I am so glad you compared the G3 against the S95B plus a little of the A95K. This is what I was hoping for!! Big thumbs up!! Even though I do wish the A95K was compared just a little bit more, but maybe there just wasn’t that much of a difference between the two 2022 qd-oleds?😀