Professional’s Score
Professionals
- Unimaginable sense of presence for gaming
- Excessive frequency and quick response instances
- Nice colours and excellent OLED distinction
- Good viewing space for multitasking
Cons
- Not good sound
- Some unsmart selections for automobile enter and USB
- Takes up quite a lot of house
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 part is ideal, however the necessary issues are excellent. When you have a equally premium gaming PC, this may very well be the suitable display screen to match its capabilities.
Worth When Reviewed
Dès 1 785 €
Greatest Costs In the present day: Samsung Odyssey OLED G9
€1599.00
€1599.00
€1890.97
1 785,00 €
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 aspect by aspect. Its vibrant and barely curved OLED panel, excessive decision, excessive body price, and well-below-millisecond response time urged {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 worth:
- Show dimension: 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
- Colour depth: 10 bits
- Color gamut (acknowledged): 100% sRGB, 99.5% DCI-P3
- Refresh price: 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 Sort C, Good Display screen with Tizen OS, Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.2, and distant management
- Worth: $1,799.99
Odyssey OLED G9 design
After making room on a big desk (my normal desk was far too small), screwing the bottom collectively, which could be performed 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 encompasses a discrete millimeter-thick matte-gray metallic bezel. The curved floor on the again of the show is very nice too, and when the facility is switched on, an RGB ring illuminates the realm the place the neck meets the again. The position of the picture inputs on the again isn’t nice, and could be very difficult to work with. The display screen could be raised barely and tilted backwards, however can’t be adjusted in different methods. A pivot operate 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 definitely worth the wait? Sure, I believe so. I loaded up with as many spectacular immersive video games as I may consider, and pushed the RTX 4070 card in my laptop to its limits to render the motion on the display screen in the highest quality.
It’s exhausting to argue that an excessive widescreen doesn’t impact gameplay favorably. With FOV settings set appropriately within the video games and on the proper distance from the display screen, I get a discipline of view that vastly will increase peripheral imaginative and prescient and immersion. It took some experimentation and a few vertigo-like movement illness to get the angles proper. Nevertheless it’s properly value it when every part is aligned excellent.
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 take in the dystopian environment in Cyberpunk 2077 and watch a sundown, or sweep your eyes over the horizon in Purple Lifeless Redemption 2. Or why not take to the skies in Flight Simulator and watch the planet curve as you rise?
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High-class colours and good HDR
It’s not only a extensive 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 expertise as Samsung’s glorious OLED-based TVs, and that’s mirrored in its extensive coloration gamut and excessive depth. It crosses the DCI P3 coloration scale and begins to strategy Rec. 2020 ranges. Nearly, however not fairly. And it hits fairly proper in colours in P3 mode and excellent for sRGB. It’s so near skilled degree for colours that anybody who desires to edit movie and pictures 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 claimed 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. Nevertheless it additionally has a acknowledged most brightness of as much as 1000 cd/m2 for small and short-term mild spots.
I can’t measure this, however movies and video games in HDR mode clearly produce extra intense native and short-term mild. The display screen has the identical HDR assist 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 price and assist for Adaptive Sync and FreeSync Premium Professional make it simple to get a clean and exquisite picture, even when a pc struggles to maintain the picture rendering clean. I didn’t expertise any display screen tearing, even with quick actions and digicam sweeps. When 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 excellent 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 quite a lot of pixels to regulate. 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 large display screen, however numerous workspace is a superb benefit for different issues too. You’ll be able to 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 aspect by aspect.
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Some odd selections
This implies you can too join two picture sources and run two massive, high-resolution, regular-sized screens aspect by aspect. 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 will 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 should do with out that. There are three USB-C ports, however they’re a standard USB hub and nothing else. One to connect with a pc and two to attach USB equipment. Once more, an odd alternative of port format. What I wish to join is generally USB Sort A inputs for issues like keyboard and mouse.
And perhaps a very good 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 all sides. 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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Nearly a wise TV
Sure, the display screen has Bluetooth 5.3 assist, and likewise Wi-Fi 5 connectivity. That is considered one of Samsung’s good screens. With an Arm-based processor and the identical Tizen OS software program as in Samsung’s good TV. The performance is identical because the Good Monitor M8 — a full good TV system with pre-installed and downloadable apps for all main and widespread streaming companies, 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, internet browser, management hub for good dwelling devices, and way more. You additionally get the identical type of picture enhancement and upscaling as a daily TV. And for pure connectivity and content material companies, there’s no scarcity of necessary options. Aside from receivers for terrestrial or cable TV.
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The whole lot is managed with a small distant that provides 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.
Nonetheless, the expertise of this display screen as a wise TV is a little 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 an enormous funding, however given the image high quality, the superb gaming capabilities, the graceful dealing with due to the Tizen system and distant management, and the good display screen characteristic basically as a bonus, it may be value it. Two 1440p OLED 16:9 screens this good in all probability 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 you can get it 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.