Samsung’s CES 2023 gaming monitors range from curved QD-OLEDs to 8K behemoths - Digital Trends

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Samsung is convinced you request a bigger gaming monitor — oregon astatine least, that’s what its CES 2023 lineup suggests. The institution introduced 4 caller monitors to its Odyssey gaming line, ranging from a 34-inch ultrawide show up to its 8K 57-inch monster.

It’s an absorbing determination considering CES is besides bringing the first 27-inch OLED monitors from LG that person been the speech of tech for the past mates of months. But for now, Samsung has conscionable 2 Odyssey OLED monitors it’s introducing: a 34-inch exemplary and a 49-inch model.

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Unlike the surge of caller 27-inch OLED gaming monitors, Samsung’s archetypal OLED monitors usage its ain QD-OLED panels, archetypal introduced successful the Alienware 34 QD-OLED, which launched past year. QD-OLED is Samsung’s long-awaited reply to LG OLED, and truthful far, it’s proven to beryllium a superior contender.

The Samsung Odyssey G95SC 49 is the astir absorbing of each these caller monitors. It takes the signifier origin of the Odyssey Neo G9 and throws an OLED sheet into the mix. That means it’s a 32:9 super-ultrawide show with an 1800R curve that fundamentally stacks 2 1440p monitors side-by-side (what Samsung calls “dual QHD”), for a full solution of 5120 x 1440. It comes with the aforesaid 240Hz refresh complaint arsenic the Odyssey Neo G9 arsenic well.

The Odyssey OLED 34 is simply a small tamer — a 21:9 ultrawide show with a 175Hz refresh rate. According to Samsung, some monitors travel with a 0.1ms effect clip and HDR True Black 400. All this matches what we saw connected the Alienware 34 QD-OLED, which is nary surprise. Samsung didn’t notation if this is an authoritative DisplayHDR certification oregon not, though. The institution skirted that certification process with past year’s Odyssey Neo G8.

Beyond conscionable a caller panel, these caller OLED monitors diagnostic a refreshed plan too. The basal is wider, and the basal shouldn’t instrumentality up rather arsenic overmuch abstraction arsenic with the G8. The branding connected the rear is simply a spot little bombastic too. The simpler plan looks overmuch cleaner, arsenic does the circular RGB ringing astatine its center.

Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 8K monitor

The Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 connected a grey background.

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Although Samsung has a caller show successful the 49-inch 32:9 category, the Odyssey Neo G9 isn’t going anywhere. This show was teased by AMD past November arsenic 1 of the first 8K monitors connected the market, and it’s adjacent crazier than what our archetypal look suggested.

Obviously, the 8K solution is the stand-out feature, enabled by the DisplayPort 2.1, which doubles information transportation speeds to let for the bandwidth to bash 8K. Whether oregon not your PC tin grip that galore pixels is different question, though, particularly since lone AMD’s latest GPUs enactment the feature.

The Odyssey Neo G9 is simply a 57-inch 32:9 show with a 1000R curve that puts 2 4K displays broadside by side, for a full solution of 7680 x 2160. Even with the boosted resolution, Samsung is maintaining a super-high 240Hz refresh complaint and 1ms effect time. It’s not OLED, but the updated caller Odyssey Neo G9 does usage mini-LED backlighting, which Samsung says gives it a opposition ratio of 1,000,000:1.

Wide facet ratios are the staple of Samsung’s caller Odyssey lineup, abbreviated of the Odyssey Neo G7. The 2023 exemplary uses a accepted 16:9 facet ratio, but it’s 43 inches big. Samsung seems to beryllium targeting this much arsenic a TV, arsenic it includes a 2.2-channel talker strategy and Samsung’s astute TV operating system.

The Odyssey Neo G9 is certified by VESA for Display HDR 1000, and Samsung says delivers “superior imaging successful immoderate crippled environment, from shadows to agleam scenes.”

Both the Odyssey Neo G9 and Odyssey OLED G9 see adaptive sync and AMD FreeSync Premium. They some besides comes with Samsung Smart Hub and Game Hub. That gives you nonstop entree to streaming video apps similar Prime Video, Netflix, and YouTube without adjacent connecting to a PC. Similarly, Game Hub let’s you watercourse games from Xbox and Nvidia GeForce Now.

Both monitors besides see USB-C charging up to 65 watts.

Samsung says the Odyssey Neo G7 volition beryllium disposable successful the archetypal fewer months of 2023, portion the Odyssey Neo G9 volition travel aboriginal successful the year. It’s not wide precisely erstwhile we’ll spot the 2 OLED monitors, but Samsung says they’ll travel immoderate clip aboriginal successful 2023.