- Samsung didn't have final
packaging ready for our sponsored unboxing of
the Odyssey G7 monitor, so they sent us something even better. A flipping crate. Let's get this puppy open and have a look at the little brother to what is arguably the god of current gaming
monitors, the Odyssey G9. (loud clang) Inside then we've got a nice sturdy base. A height adjustable stand, so on top of the basic adjustments
like tilt it's got a little bit of swivel built in there. It can also pivot. Goes up and down. This is nice. Nice little cable management
doodad-a-ma-jiggy right there. We've got DisplayPort, power brick, USB 3, and the power cord and. Big reveal. The new G7, even though
it shares the same name as the old G7, is a very different beast. Instead of being a 1440p curved panel, it's actually a 4K flat
panel this time around. Boop! And that goes on a little
something like that. And these are nice captive screws, so you never have to
worry about losing them. And since we're back
here, it's a perfect time to talk about a couple of other features. So we just take this plastic trim piece, clip it together, and clip it on. And you can see that under
it is actually an RGB ring. This has a feature that
Samsung calls CoreSync which allows the LED lights at the back to synchronize with the content that's being displayed on the screen. So there's technologies that exist that do this already, but
many of them are third party. Now it's built right into the monitor. The other big one is HDMI 2.1. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. We've got not just DisplayPort
here, but also HDMI 2.1, so that means a maximum of 4K 120 hertz. Meaning that this could be a perfect pair for both a gaming PC and
a console if you were in say a dorm room or something like that and you had limited
space for a secondary TV. Oh, well no, that's about it. We're set up. All we gotta do now is plug it into power and then connect our gaming PC. Oh, hey that's fun. We need a worthy gaming computer if we're gonna be at 4K 144 hertz. Oh yeah, did I mention that? On DisplayPort it can
go up to 4K 144 hertz. So I'll be interested to see if they're using display stream compression
to get us 4:4:4 color, or if we're gonna have to resort to chroma subsampling in order to do that. The display should intelligently switch between inputs, but
DisplayPort, particularly when you first attach it,
is notoriously finicky, so it wouldn't surprise
me if we had to give the system a quick reset
before it grabs it. Let's see if it picked
up that 144 by default. I see 120 is definitely... Yup! There it is! 4K, 144 hertz, absolutely no configuration and we're running at eight bit color, RGB, full dynamic range. Perfect. This is an HDR 400
monitor, so for any games or videos that support
HDR you will be able to accept an HDR signal,
though it should be noted that for the best HDR
experience you will prefer something more like the Odyssey G9 which can handle, if I recall correctly Samsung rates it at 2,000 nits peak brightness compared to 400 on this one. Another thing we can confirm in the Nvidia control panel is support for G-Sync. This is a G-Sync compatible monitor. It's also FreeSync Premium Pro certified. So what that means is if you don't happen to have the absolute latest and greatest graphics card that can push
4K 144 frames per second, when your FPS does dip the display will dynamically adjust
its refresh rate depending on the FPS that your
machine is putting out which helps to smooth animations and reduce tearing and stutter. This is an IPS type panel which means that whether you're looking at it from a fairly extreme angle like I am so that you guys can
see the front as well, or even up or down, it's gonna look pretty flipping fantastic. Oh boy, come on. You can do it. - [David] Look at that frame rate. - Pow pow pow, oh no. What we're looking at right now is not the performance of the game. CS:GO even at 4K is gonna run well on a card like this. But what we want to
see is as we're panning the camera around, how
crisp does the image stay? If there's text on this wall for example as we pan back and forth,
can we still read it? Wow. Yes. This is definitely faster
than the TN panels of old in terms of the pixel response times. So you get very little if any smearing as you're moving around and as objects are moving across the screen. You'll particularly
notice that sort of thing with a really dark object
on a light background for example, but you can
see here there's almost nothing in terms of smearing
or ghosting behind it. Like these right here in
particular, we should see discoloration behind
them, but it's not there. Not to the eye anyway. A camera with a proper pursuit setup is going to be able to see it. To be clear, I'm not setting up a pursuit camera setup right now. It's just something I've looked at a lot of times over the years. This is very very solid. And this, my friends, is a perfect example of where technology like G-Sync and FreeSync comes into play. So you'll see, we'll go up as high as 120, 144 FPS, so we're
really taking advantage of that full refresh rate of the monitor, but we'll also dip down as low as. 95? Yeah, there we go. We're right around 90 frames
per second in this area. Man that's smooth. I love that a G-Sync is no longer an extra 150 bucks or whatever to get it built into your monitor. Just being able to take
a FreeSync Premium Pro panel like this one and run
G-Sync or FreeSync on it. Not being bound to whatever graphics card vendor I've locked into. Much better experience for the end user. That would be really cool if the feature was just built into the monitor. "Correlating. "Turn the LED lighting
at the front and back "of your product on or off." Oh okay, no. Display effect. Rainbow flash, double flash, breathing. Looking good. And actually, no, I
think it might be here. We just gotta change it to
static and go to CoreSync on. Oh cool! Well that's an advantage. Not having to have it run
unlike software on your machine. So let's see, I just have a full white display on right now. So that makes sense. So let's fire up Doom Eternal. Okay! That's pretty cool. So when it turned green, I'll show you what I was looking at. These, so seems like it grabs the brightest part of the scene as opposed to the overwhelming color of the scene. Which is a novel way of doing that. I would expect right now it
would be more of a white. Yup. So it has a bluey-white 'cause when the whole screen was
white it was this color. Oh shoot, this plate part
came disconnected again. - [Andy] There's RGB lighting. - Oh, I didn't even notice that! What? Oh that's cool. Going flat on the 28 inches was definitely the right move for Samsung. A curve on a big display makes a ton of sense and increases immersion. But on a smaller one like this. Not that 28 inches is
"small" but it's definitely smaller than the G9 at 49 inches. On a smaller one like this I
think flat makes more sense. Some people prefer it. And thankfully for them there are curved options out there,
but for me personally flat at this size makes
a little bit more sense. No, I'm not gonna die. You just watch. (Andy and David laugh) Well that's fine. This is as good a time as any
to switch over to the Xbox. We're just gonna turn on the Xbox and we should get prompted to switch our input. Let's fire up the Xbox. There we go. - [Andy] Aye! - On the right display
it is downright gorgeous. - [David] Wow! - Shut up! Now I'm gonna crash
just to spite you guys. (crew oohs) And that's pretty much it for the G7. The big features again then are its 4K 144 hertz without
any chroma subsampling, support for G-Sync and
FreeSync so so matter what flavor of graphics card you want to hook up to it, you
are freakin' good to go. And of course their CoreSync functionality which synchronizes the
lighting at the back of the monitor so that
it'll shine off the wall with what's being displayed on the screen. If you guys enjoyed this video make sure you get subscribed and you can check out Samsung's Odyssey G7
at the link down below. Thanks for watching.
I have some games I can play in 4k, and others I can only play in 1440p, and I was wondering if it would be okay to get a 4k monitor with high ppi like this for 1440p gaming? If the ppi is high enough, will lower than native content look okay? I have a 15in 1600p macbook and 1080p videos look perfect on it, and I think its because of the high ppi.
sponsored unboxing in 5 min without testing much = "yeah is good, buy it"
TBF this is is quick look channel, the channel isn't really meant for full reviews, but from this and the product page they linked, I think I've seen enough to know I'm gonna pass now. Compared to the old G7 its not looking good on paper.
Its now IPS 4K 144HZ Flat, compared to the 1440P 240HZ VA* Curved.
Yeah I get 4K is a better resolution than 1440P, but 4K is so demanding I'm unlikely to use it, and most older games scale better to 1440P. I mostly just wanted the old G7 without the curve, but its clearly not even remotely the same beast.
Of course we can't judge response times by looking at motion on a youtube video, but the settings they used seem to have made movement very blurry.
But, obviously, we await HU's review.
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE BLOODY FIRMWARE UPDATE TO THIS MONITOR???
Is this available to purchase anywhere? I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Sold out?
here : https://www.amazon.fr/Samsung-LS28AG702NUXEN-S28AG702NU-Gaming-28/dp/B094DKS983/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=s28ag702nu&qid=1630625955&sr=8-1
Dude...where is this thing??
I have this, got it on release day from currys uk, its amazing, i had the 32inch curve g7 for 2 weeks but didnt like the curve, i got this and compared both on my desk, played some games, hdr 400 looks great, i had the hdr600 turned off on the 32inch because it looked dull, this new g7 has given me no problems, i updated the firmware, 4k looks beautiful, takes up much less desk space.