LG wowed me last year with its Evo G5, a sleek, bright, and vibrant OLED TV that earned an Editors’ Choice award. Its successor, the Evo G6 ($3,399.99 for the 65-inch model I tested), offers more of the same, with excellent picture quality and a very similar feature set for the same price. The only real changes from the last generation include a switch from built-in Alexa to LG’s own AI supplemented by your choice of Gemini or Copilot, and an unfortunate decision to downgrade its Wi-Fi capabilities. The G6 is still a terrific-looking TV that’s worth considering if you want to splurge for a high-end OLED screen, but since it takes a slight step back in connectivity, it doesn’t unseat our current Editors’ Choice winner, the Panasonic Z95B, which offers better connectivity and a 5.1.2-channel speaker system for the same price. 

Design: Ultra-Slim, Bezel-Free, and Built to Disappear on Your Wall

The G6’s design is all about the panel. It’s completely bezel-less, bearing only a narrow strip of silver-colored metal along every edge. The strip is 0.5 inches deep, and the TV’s black plastic chassis extends slightly beyond it, bringing the total thickness to 1 inch. If you mount it on a wall, it will look like a simple glowing panel, free of any discernible frame and sticking out only a tiny bit from the wall itself.

You’ll probably want to wall-mount the G6, too, because that’s specifically what it’s designed for. It doesn’t come with a table stand like most other TVs, and instead includes a flush wall mount. If you don't plan to wall-mount it, you'll have to buy a stand separately.

Ports and Connectivity: Plenty of HDMI 2.1, But Surprisingly Dated USB and Wi-Fi

All of the G6’s ports sit in an L-shaped recess on the right side of the back of the TV. Two HDMI ports (one eARC) and one USB 2.0 port face right, while two more HDMI ports, two more USB ports, an Ethernet port, an optical audio output, 3.5mm ports for an IR blaster and RS-232C service, and an RF antenna/cable connector face down. All HDMI ports are 4K120, matching the panel’s native refresh rate. All three USB ports, on the other hand, are unfortunately only USB 2.0. That’s a very slow standard, and less suited for playing media from external storage than USB 3.0. Most high-end TVs have at least one USB 3.0 port for that purpose, and it’s surprising to see the G6 missing it. The permanently attached power cable runs down from the bottom center of the back of the screen.

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Strangely, it only has Wi-Fi 5, a downgrade from the faster, more robust Wi-Fi 6E on the LG G5 and G4. Wi-Fi 5 is still perfectly good for streaming 4K HDR content, but in congested areas like apartment buildings or in cases where your router is in an awkward position, Wi-Fi 6 or 6E can offer better performance. Additionally, it only has an ATSC 1.0 tuner for over-the-air broadcasts, rather than an ATSC 3.0 tuner for 1080p and 4K broadcasts, though this is the same as the previous generations.

Remote: Functional and Reliable

The remote is a rectangular plastic wand with a gunmetal-colored face and a dark gray back. A circular navigation pad sits two-thirds of the way up the remote, holding a clickable scroll wheel in the center. AI (voice command), App Settings, Favorites, Guide, Home, Home Hub (input selection and LG ThinQ device control), and Power buttons are located above the pad around a pinhole microphone. Narrow volume and channel rockers anchor the center of the remote, flanked by TV Settings and Back buttons above and buttons for Apps, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Haystack News, LG Channels, and Netflix below.

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Smart Features: WebOS Gets AI Upgrades With Gemini and Copilot

LG’s WebOS smart TV platform drives the G6’s features, and can handle pretty much anything you might want to stream. WebOS has apps for all major streaming services, including Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Crunchyroll, Disney+, Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube, and supports local device streaming through Apple AirPlay, Google Cast, and Miracast/WiDi. Alexa is no longer built into the G6 like it is in the G5 and C5. In its place is LG’s own hands-free AI assistant with access to information and content search using your choice of Microsoft Copilot or Google Gemini. The G6 doesn’t provide Gemini Home control like Google TV-based models, but it can serve as a hub for both Matter and Google Home smart home devices, controllable through the LG assistant.

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Audio: Clear and Capable, But Not a Replacement for a Sound System

For audio, the G6 has down-firing speakers in a 4.2-channel configuration. While that's more channels than a stereo setup and the G6 is compatible with Dolby Atmos, it doesn't have angled side- or up-firing drivers for precise spatial audio imaging like the 5.1.2-channel Panasonic Z95B or the 4.2.2-channel Samsung S95H.

Picture Quality: Still Among the Best OLEDs You Can Buy

The G6 is a 4K TV with a native 120Hz refresh rate that supports VRR up to 165Hz and can display high dynamic range (HDR) content in Dolby Vision, HDR10, and hybrid log gamma (HLG).

LG hasn't made any noticeable improvements to the G6’s picture quality over the G5. This isn’t exactly a complaint, because the G5 already looks fantastic. Using a Klein K-10A colorimeter, a Murideo SIX-G signal generator, and Portrait Displays’ Calman software, I tested the G6 out of the box in Filmmaker mode with an HDR10 signal, and measured a peak brightness of 427 nits with a full-screen white field, which is brighter than the G5 (340 nits). Moving down to the smaller 18% and 10% white fields, light output jumps to 1,566 nits and 2,339 nits, respectively. That’s actually just slightly lower than the G5’s peak brightness readings with those test patterns (1,608 nits 18%, 2,386 10%), though they’re effectively identical because at those levels of brightness, differences of 50 nits are almost impossible to discern.

This is the first time in a long time I’ve seen a new high-end TV not get brighter than last year’s model, but the G5 still ranks among the brightest OLEDs I've seen. It's only surpassed by the Panasonic Z95B, which is brighter with an 18% field (1,775 nits) but not as bright with a 10% field (2,015 nits), and a preproduction version of the Samsung S95H (1,715 nits 18%, 2,604 nits 10%), which I can’t guarantee will carry over to the retail version. Mini-LED TVs can get much, much brighter, like the TCL QM9K (3,330 nits 18%, 4,296 nits 10%), but the trade-off for them is light bloom, a haze that can show along high-contrasting surfaces due to how their backlight systems work. OLEDs adjust light output per pixel and show no light bloom.

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Color performance is also excellent, and again nearly identical to the G5’s. The above charts show the G6’s color levels out of the box in Filmmaker mode, with an SDR signal compared against Rec.709 broadcast standards and with HDR10 and Dolby Vision signals compared against DCI-P3 digital cinema standards. SDR and Dolby Vision colors are both nearly perfect, and HDR10 colors reach well beyond DCI-P3 levels while remaining mostly well-balanced. Magentas run a bit warm, but not heavily, which is the same behavior I saw in the G5. 

Nature footage, like in the BBC’s Planet Earth II, looks incredibly lifelike. Green leaves, blue-green water, and blue sky are all vibrant and natural. Sunny shots look quite bright, while fine textures under shade in the same frame look sharp and dark.

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Party scenes in The Great Gatsby with starkly contrasting blacks and whites look excellent. Black jackets look dark while retaining fine shadow details like their contours and textures, and the white lights, shirts, and balloons stand out brightly with plenty of variation. Skin tones appear natural, and flourishes of oranges and yellows pop nicely.

Just like with the whites in The Great Gatsby, snowy shots in the demonstration footage on the Spears & Munsil Ultra HD benchmark disc also keep plenty of highlight detail. Individual snowflakes and wisps of clouds remain distinct against almost completely white skies and ground, without a hint of clipping. Dark woods and cliffs in evening shots also keep their contours, with individual trees looking distinct. Brightly colored objects like flowers, animals, and sunny landscapes look gorgeous and vivid. It’s simply a great-looking picture with balanced, accurate colors.

Gaming Performance: Fast, Fluid, and Fully Featured for PCs

If you’re a PC gamer, the G6 has everything you could ask for from a TV. Its panel has a native 120Hz refresh rate with VRR up to 165Hz, and it includes both AMD FreeSync Premium and Nvidia G-Sync. It’s also responsive; using a Leo Bodnar 4K Video Signal Lag Tester, I measured an input lag of 12.7 milliseconds with a 4K60 signal and 4.6ms with a 1080p120 signal. That’s virtually the same as both the G5 (12.9ms 4K60, 4.8ms 1080p) and the dimmer, less expensive C5 (12.9ms 4K60, 4.5ms 1080p). It’s also less than one frame of latency, which makes the G6 good for gaming.