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Knowledgeable’s Ranking
Professionals
- Unimaginable sense of presence for gaming
- Excessive frequency and quick response instances
- Nice colours and ideal OLED distinction
- Good viewing space for multitasking
Cons
- Not excellent sound
- Some unsmart decisions for automobile enter and USB
- Takes up plenty of area
Our Verdict
The Odyssey OLED G9 impresses with its highly effective, curved widescreen show, intense colors, nice dynamics, and each quick frequency and response. Not every thing is ideal, however the essential issues are superb. If in case you have a equally premium gaming PC, this might be the suitable display screen to match its capabilities.
Value When Reviewed
1799.99
Greatest Costs At this time: Samsung Odyssey OLED G9
1799.99
After seeing the Odyssey OLED G9 at CES final winter, I’ve been itching to get my fingers on one to check. Who wouldn’t be intrigued by a 49-inch curved widescreen monitor with a full 32:9 side ratio, or two common 16:9 screens facet by facet. Its vibrant and barely curved OLED panel, excessive decision, excessive body charge, and well-below-millisecond response time prompt {that a} good gaming expertise was inside attain.
Odyssey OLED G9 specs
Sure, this show is decadent. However the specs make it clear you’re getting one thing particular for the value:
- Show measurement: 49 inches, 32:9
- Curved: 1800R
- Native decision: 5120×1440 pixels
- Panel sort: QD-OLED, shiny floor
- Brightness: 250 cd/m2 regular, 1,000 cd/m2 peak
- Distinction: 1,000,000:1
- HDR: HDR 10, HDR10+, Vesa DisplayHDR True Black 400
- Coloration depth: 10 bits
- Color gamut (acknowledged): 100% sRGB, 99.5% DCI-P3
- Refresh charge: 240Hz
- Response time (GtG): 0.03 ms
- Picture inputs: HDMI 2.1, micro-HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4
- Stand adjustment: Top, tilt
- Different: Audio system 2x 5W, FreeSync Premium Professional, hub with 3x USB 3 Gen 1 Kind C, Good Display screen with Tizen OS, Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.2, and distant management
- Value: $1,799.99
Odyssey OLED G9 design
After making room on a big desk (my regular desk was far too small), screwing the bottom collectively, which might be carried out with out instruments, and thoroughly lifting it onto the desk, I used to be greeted by its arched, pitch-black rectangular expanse with a reflection-minimizing floor.
The display screen stands firmly on a large central foot, and includes a discrete millimeter-thick matte-gray steel bezel. The curved floor on the again of the show is very nice too, and when the ability is switched on, an RGB ring illuminates the world the place the neck meets the again. The position of the picture inputs on the again isn’t nice, and might be very difficult to work with. The display screen might be raised barely and tilted backwards, however can’t be adjusted in different methods. A pivot perform on such a large display screen would have been insanely cool, however Samsung hasn’t been so daring this time.
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How does the Odyssey OLED G9 carry out?
Was it well worth the wait? Sure, I believe so. I loaded up with as many spectacular immersive video games as I might consider, and pushed the RTX 4070 card in my pc to its limits to render the motion on the display screen in the very best quality.
It’s laborious to argue that an excessive widescreen doesn’t impact gameplay favorably. With FOV settings set accurately within the video games and on the proper distance from the display screen, I get a discipline of view that significantly will increase peripheral imaginative and prescient and immersion. It took some experimentation and a few vertigo-like movement illness to get the angles proper. But it surely’s effectively price it when every thing is aligned good.
Enemies showing out of the nook of my eye in Doom Everlasting, permitting me to react sooner than with a narrower (and slower) display screen. A full field-of-view of landscapes and environments that makes it simpler to navigate… or just cease and absorb the dystopian ambiance in Cyberpunk 2077 and watch a sundown, or sweep your eyes over the horizon in Crimson Useless Redemption 2. Or why not take to the skies in Flight Simulator and watch the planet curve as you rise?
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Prime-class colours and good HDR
It’s not only a broad image that provides to the expertise, however it helps that the image seems to be good too. The Odyssey OLED G9 is predicated on the identical QD-OLED know-how as Samsung’s glorious OLED-based TVs, and that’s mirrored in its broad coloration gamut and excessive depth. It crosses the DCI P3 coloration scale and begins to method Rec. 2020 ranges. Virtually, however not fairly. And it hits fairly proper in colours in P3 mode and good for sRGB. It’s so near skilled degree for colours that anybody who desires to edit movie and images on the display screen must be very choosy to not be happy with this.
With OLED, darkish surfaces get intense blacks, and distinction right down to the smallest pixel degree is one hundred pc. The display screen is alleged to have 250 cd/m2 in regular sort brightness, and that appears to be true on a big, all-white floor. I get the identical worth of 248 cd/m2 throughout the whole floor. But it surely additionally has a acknowledged most brightness of as much as 1000 cd/m2 for small and short-term gentle spots.
I can’t measure this, however movies and video games in HDR mode clearly produce extra intense native and short-term gentle. The display screen has the identical HDR help as most Samsung TVs, HDR10 and HDR10+ together with the gaming model, however no Dolby Imaginative and prescient. Additionally it is Vesa DisplayHDR True Black 400 licensed.
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Good for gaming, good for different issues
The 240Hz body charge and help for Adaptive Sync and FreeSync Premium Professional make it straightforward to get a easy and exquisite picture, even when a pc struggles to maintain the picture rendering easy. I didn’t expertise any display screen tearing, even with quick actions and digital camera sweeps. If in case you have a brand new Nvidia GeForce graphics card, you don’t want G-Sync within the show anymore; Adaptive Sync is okay. Lightning-fast response instances of 0.03 milliseconds make the show good for gaming.
This requires a pc that may deal with it. My pretty quick take a look at field with Intel Core i5 processor and Geforce RTX 4070 can ship 60 frames per second in most video games, however not all. Nonetheless, that’s plenty of pixels to manage. The 5120×1440 pixel decision means 7.3 million pixels. A 4K display screen at 3840×2160 yields 8.3 million.
It’s not simply video games that may profit from the massive display screen, however numerous workspace is a good benefit for different issues too. You possibly can stretch the video editor to accommodate a transparent timeline and lots of home windows and instruments directly, and nonetheless have room for a browser and file supervisor. That is actually two “common” 1440p 16:9 displays facet by facet.
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Some odd decisions
This implies you can even join two picture sources and run two massive, high-resolution, regular-sized screens facet by facet. To take action, the monitor has a DisplayPort and two HDMI inputs, one normal-sized and one micro-HDMI.
It’s a format I haven’t seen shortly, and virtually feels a bit retro. What makes use of the micro-HDMI port like this in 2023? It might have appeared extra logical to have a USB-C enter for picture sign, ideally one with energy provide and full USB docking for a laptop computer. However you’ll need to do with out that. There are three USB-C ports, however they’re a conventional USB hub and nothing else. One to hook up with a pc and two to attach USB equipment. Once more, an odd alternative of port format. What I want to join is usually USB Kind A inputs for issues like keyboard and mouse.
And perhaps a superb headset. The display screen has built-in audio system, however the sound expertise is much from the glory of the image expertise. There are two 5-watt components positioned on the backside fringe of the display screen outwards on either side. You get good stereo unfold and detailed sound, however it’s nonetheless fairly skinny, with flattened midrange and weak bass. There’s no analogue headphone jack—you’ll have to make use of a USB plug or Bluetooth.
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Virtually a sensible TV
Sure, the display screen has Bluetooth 5.3 help, and in addition Wi-Fi 5 connectivity. That is one in every of Samsung’s sensible screens. With an Arm-based processor and the identical Tizen OS software program as in Samsung’s sensible TV. The performance is similar because the Good Monitor M8 — a full sensible TV system with pre-installed and downloadable apps for all main and standard streaming providers, in addition to many smaller media, data and leisure apps, video games and extra.
There’s an online browser, app to play media from USB-connected storage, net browser, management hub for sensible dwelling devices, and rather more. You additionally get the identical type of picture enhancement and upscaling as an everyday TV. And for pure connectivity and content material providers, there’s no scarcity of essential options. Apart from receivers for terrestrial or cable TV.
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All the pieces is managed with a small distant that offers you quantity management, trackpad, and hotkeys to some key apps like Netflix and Prime Video. You additionally get a channel changer that works with Samsung’s personal Samsung TV streaming service, which has a number of dwell streaming channels.
Nevertheless, the expertise of this display screen as a sensible TV is a bit unusual. The interface solely covers a part of the display screen, which I assume is 21:9 format, with massive unused areas round it, and there are additionally massive empty areas when streaming content material.
At £1599 from Samsung the Odyssey OLED G9 is clearly a giant funding, however given the image high quality, the superb gaming capabilities, the sleek dealing with due to the Tizen system and distant management, and the sensible display screen characteristic basically as a bonus, it is likely to be price it. Two 1440p OLED 16:9 screens this good most likely value the identical or extra. With higher audio system and a correct USB-C laptop computer dock, and it will be a complete winner.
The higher information is that you could get it rather a lot cheaper from Amazon: £1149 after we checked.
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This text was translated from Swedish to English and initially appeared on m3.se.