Samsung Made a Big, Honking Gaming Monitor that Could Be Wider Than Your Desk - CNET

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CES is erstwhile gaming-monitor companies bring retired the large guns -- and fewer are bigger than the caller 57-inch Samsung Odyssey Neo G9, a curved, DisplayHDR 1000 model. Teased by AMD during its RX 7000-series GPU launch successful November arsenic the archetypal show announced with DisplayPort 2.1 support, the Neo G9 has 7,680x2,160-pixel resolution. The precocious solution positive HDR and accelerated 240Hz refresh complaint marque the high-bandwidth DP 2.1 essential, adjacent though it's not a afloat 8K (it's a 32:9 facet ratio).

However, there's inactive a spot of a disconnect betwixt this level of solution and GPU performance. At the moment, the lone GPU that tin grip it with each the frills is astir apt the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, but Nvidia hasn't leveled up to DP 2.1 (HDMI 2.1 tin enactment it, but lone astatine 60Hz). AMD's RX 7900 XTX does person DP2.1 connections, but isn't rather up to that level, oregon mightiness beryllium but conscionable nether constricted circumstances. 

It's slated to vessel aboriginal this year, but we don't cognize however overmuch this atrocious lad is going to cost.

Rear angled presumption    of the Samsung Odyssey G9 OLED connected  a bluish  and achromatic  background Samsung

The 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9 (G95SC) isn't the company's archetypal Quantum Dot OLED monitor announcement; it unveiled a 34-inch G8 model similar to the Alienware 34 QD-OLED astatine IFA successful August, which was expected to vessel by the extremity of 2022 but that's been bumped to "very soon."

In summation to the QD-OLED panel, the G9 has 5,120x1440-pixel solution -- fundamentally 32:9-ratio 1440p, but with a amended pixel density than the emblematic 21:9 3,440x1,440 -- and is DisplayHDR True Black 400 certified. It besides has a faster-than-Alienware 240Hz refresh complaint and incorporates Samsung's Gaming Hub for cloud gaming. Samsung opted to spell with mini DisplayPort alternatively of full-size DisplayPort for this model, successful summation to HDMI and USB-C with 65-watt powerfulness delivery.

Samsung expects to vessel it aboriginal this year, and has yet to springiness america pricing.

A small much mundane, if you see 43-inch monitors person reached that level of commonplace, the level Odyssey Neo G7 goes a small sleeker and much gaming-slash-entertainment hybrid than its predecessors. The 144Hz Quantum Dot, DisplayHDR 600-compliant show has integrated stereo speakers and comes with a distant and each the streaming-and-gaming apps Samsung's Hubs tin include.

It's scheduled to vessel by the extremity of March successful the US, for an arsenic yet unspecified fig of dollars.

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