LG C5 OLED TV release date estimate, confirmed specs, and price predictions

Following the LG World Premiere presentation on January 6th at the CES conference in Las Vegas, we now have a lot of confirmed information about the specifications and features of LG’s new mid-range OLED TV. That said, most of what we think about pricing and when these TVs will hit the shelves is still based on estimates from previous years, as the company hasn’t yet confirmed the details on these.

LG C5 release date estimate: when will the LG C5 come out?

There’s no official information out as of yet with regards to the LG C5 release date i.e. when you’ll actually be able to buy one. The LG C4 was similarly unveiled at CES in January and then released around late March (with some variation depending on your region) and the same was true for the C3. Some slippage into April is also possible, as we saw with the release of the LG B4, so we estimate a similar March/early April release for the C5.

LG C5 specs & features: what we know

At the grand unveiling of their new range at CES 2025, LG revealed some of the specification information on the upcoming products, including the LG C5. Disappointingly, there doesn’t seem to be a great deal of difference between the C5 and the C4; certainly the new TV represents much less of a jump than existed between the C4 and the C3.

Firstly, the processor is an α9 Gen8 aka Alpha 9 Gen 8 chip, which is an upgrade over the previous Alpha 9 Gen 7, though this is a similar leap to the Gen 7 in the C4 compared to the Gen 6 in the C3.

Peak brightness is, according to LG, slightly higher in the C5, though they gave no figures as to how much of an improvement over the C4 it was, so it’s safe to assume it’s a fairly small uplift. It’s possible this may come about due to the aforementioned processor upgrade increasing efficiency and optimizing power delivery, rather than any improvements to the panel, which don’t seem to be present. There’s no mention of the new ‘Brightness Booster Ultimate‘ tech that’s going to be present in the new G5, and the maximum refresh rate has maintained the 144Hz found in the previous gen.

The biggest changes for the C5 appear to be the upgrade to webOS 25 and the AI features this will include. ‘Smart profiles’ can be assigned to different people with voice recognition, allowing the TV to automatically detect who you are when you ask it to do something and alter its features to your personal preference. The AI Picture wizard will also help you customize the picture to your preference.

Size options for the LG C5 are the same as those for the C4, namely: 42″, 28″, 55″, 65″, 77″, 83″.

LG C5 price estimate

There’s been no official confirmation of the price of the new LG C5 range, though in the last two years, the difference between the MSRP on release between the generations hasn’t been more than $100, if you’re just going off US pricing (though for other regions like the UK and Australia, prices have fluctuated more significantly as you can see below).

We therefore expect the LG C5 to be priced similarly, if not the same, as the LG C4 was when it came out. In the table below you can see the prices for the different screen sizes for both the C4 and C3 to help give you an idea.

Will it be worth buying the C5 over last year’s model model?

Based on what LG has revealed at CES 2025, we can’t imagine that the fairly limited improvements to the C5 over its predecessor will make it worth buying over the C4 unless the two end up being priced fairly similarly. If you look at the 65-inch models on Amazon currently, there’s about a $300 difference between the C4 and the preceding C3, and if the pricing for the C4 and C5 ends up having a similar gap then we’d probably opt for the older model. However we won’t know for sure until the first reviews come out for the new TV.