CRAZIEST Gaming Monitor Yet! Samsung Odyssey G9 49" Monitor Review

what's up guys I'm randomfrankp and today we're gonna be reviewing the brand new Samsung Odyssey G9, the 49 inch 240hz ultrawide monitor with a one millisecond response time. So if you're interested in the g9 and maybe you want to pick one up I got you covered in this review. First off I just want to say getting this thing unbox and setup made me super giddy I literally felt like I was thrown in the Aperture Science and I was building Atlas, this is the real deal. Now as you'd expect with the 5120 by 1440p dual quad HD 49 inch display this is gonna take up a good amount of desk space as you can see with this sitting on my 60-inch desktop. in fact the stand sticks out around eleven and a half inches from the back of my desk and the curved ends of the monitor reach out at around 16 inches outward so just make sure you have the desk space for this one. but man when you sit down in front of it with that 32 by 9 aspect ratio and the 1000r curvature which matches the curve of the human eye your setup is just elevated to the next level, even if you barely have the room... and it is the world's first 1000R curved DQ HD gaming monitor touting some pretty solid improvements over their previous 49 inch models from years past and honestly well it seems extreme at first the curve really isn't as dramatic and you get used to it pretty quickly. so at this size it's the exact equivalent of having two 27-inch monitors side-by-side except now without that bezel in the middle and for a visual comparison for current ultra wide owners at 34 inches you can see you still get a pretty good amount of extra screen real estate on both sides. before we move on on the back side for your cables and connections they have this cable cover that kind of hides everything on the back so the entire backside looks flush and just super clean in this glossy white finish your cables actually get routed into the stand and down out the back so if properly managed you won't see any cables but on the back behind the cover we have a headphone jack to DisplayPort 1.4 ports an HDMI 2.0 2 USB 3.0 ports in a Titan b4 can take it to your PC unfortunately no USB type-c also on the back we have a built-in headphone hanger which folds out of the stand if you want to just place them there but it is kind of you know out of place to reach around the whole thing when you want to use them and yes you probably saw it glowing in all its glory the back also houses this really futuristic looking Infinity core lighting system that looks really nice and contrast to that black and white exterior there are five lighting effects built into the monitor you can toggle inside the settings plus 52 colors if you want a static look to it it definitely looks cool I just wish it wasn't hidden on the back side and at nighttime it does add a bit of you know subtle back low fits near the wall but obviously not gonna be the easiest thing to see with this 49 inch panel right in front of your face at all times okay Gaming use cases my experience let's talk the goods because let's face it at the end of the day like 90% of you watching this and buying it are gonna be buying this for gaming and no lie when I got this in two weeks ago playing games at this new resolution with the curve really almost felt like I was playing the games for the first time again so I definitely got sidetracked more than a few times and my I should have been filming but I just couldn't stop playing the monitor supports Nvidia g-sync and adapt the sink over DisplayPort 1.4 as well as free sync premium Pro so I know for me with my 20 EBT I being able to tune this to that rapid 240 Hertz refresh rate felt awesome and I know some people will say that it's not worth it or you can't really tell but a hundred percent I can immediately notice a new refresh rate compared to my 144 Hertz monitors that I've used it just feels a lot more buttery smooth now in addition to gaming I'll touch on it real quick with all this you know new screen you can have numerous windows open so it's going to be great for productivity in that sense you can do picture in picture mode things like you know photo and video editing this is gonna be a dream for that spread out my timeline you could have your bins open with all your video files there I like to separate and monitor my vector scopes or when I'm color correcting but I mean in addition to just gaming you know streaming on this would be great to have your game window + chat OBS alright they're using this in a racing rig for day trading the massive 49 inch size is gonna give all users that extra freedom and flexibility now I will say at first it was jarring I didn't get a headache but my eyes were slightly fatigued with so much going on right in front of you and your peripheral view but I think it used to it pretty quickly we as humans adapt and while it seems like a mammoth on day one I definitely gotten used to it it's kind of like a phone screen years ago we all had what the three and a half inch screens now those phones are like six inches and up it also probably helps that I've been using a 34 inch ultra wide since like 2015 see Justin really wasn't too tough now obviously 32 by 9 ratio isn't the norm right pushing games to 50 120 by 1440p won't be an easy task for most computers especially at 240 Hertz I can say for the majority of my time playing battlefield I'm racing around in dirt rally scaling wise everything looked fine and yes the resolution was supported but you'll need to be running a pretty beefy rig if you want to touch at 240 Hertz and play still at Ultra settings obviously games like csgo fortnight less graphically intensive titles will benefit from the higher refresh rate but do keep in mind that not every game may support that resolution or even scale properly to this new aspect ratio I didn't have much of a problem on my end the one thing I want to say is yes on the edges of the screen when gaming in your peripheral view the scaling isn't perfect and it will look slightly warped in some titles personally I don't see an issue with it because I'm focused on the action you know right in front of me everything happening to those extreme left and right of my screen it's just an added bonus now and will only add to my game awareness however one thing I found is pretty interesting so I tried to capture as best as I could in battlefield but if an enemy is far away in the distance but still happens to be on the edges of the display like these guys running on the mountain they do get sealed up pretty significantly to where they're easy to spot but if I look they're normally in game on the center of the screen they're barely visible at all like they're a pixel if that so that will sometimes happen with things off in the distance maybe giving you a competitive edge even now obviously most games and especially FPS titles you can also usually change or field of view so that would be one of the first things I recommend doing here since the screen ratio now is so wide you're gonna want to find a good balance to where it's not a complete fisheye but still gives you like I said a good balance while complimenting the new screen ratio that's the key and another thing to mention the ambition do everything else so far is HDR with a peak brightness of 1000 nits this marks the first gaming monitor i've tested worthy of using HDR with the cue LED panel which is quantum technology we have HDR 1000 which is Samsung's standard to ensure peak brightness of 1000 nits and HDR 10 plus enabling HDR and your windows display settings then again of your game looks really fantastic here in battlefield you can see a best in the sky in the water it holds all the detail on the clouds versus playing its stock with a majority of the sky just gets blown out now you may have seen a bit of flicker on-screen with HDR on at 240 Hertz but to get rid of it I'd turn the death of sync off and the response time to either faster or fastest and that flicker will disappear and yes at a thousand nits heads up this monitor is super bright when I'm gaming I only keep it at around 60% brightness in the settings because otherwise it's just too much but I mean I'd rather have the option to always increase brightness versus a dual monitor in comparison the only caps out at like 300 nits quickly touching back to the VA panel I did want to measure the amount of backlight bleed levels sitting straight on with a screen this size and as you can see the only three barely noticeable zones are on the bottom left bottom right and top right but honestly it's barely noticeable in pitch dark and wasn't apparent at all in gaming the last thing I mentioned is the menu for we wrap up and thankfully they have an integrated joystick underneath on the right side for navigating the menus it's very easy to find what you're looking for here you can toggle the refresh rate from the 60 120 to 240 Hertz turning adaptive sync on and off response time from standard faster to fastest and what's nice is on top of that menu there as you can see we have this bold chart pretty much like showing you what your current settings are low input like options and even a virtual aim pointer which is pretty much you know common nowadays for most gaming monitors this gives you the option to have an on-screen reticle you can customize and so I guess you know give you better aim in games that guy doesn't have a reticle already on the screen and then we have the built-in picture modes from high brightness modes for fps RTS RPG cinema mode srgb and thankfully all the color modes here are actually like usable usually on gaming monitors some of them will be completely oversaturated or the picture will be you know crazy sharp but I can honestly say out of all the built-in profiles we have here they are completely visible this panel is factory calibrated at 125 percent srgb coverage as well as 95 percent of DCI coverage so the picture right out of the box is really nice okay so wrapping this up do keep in mind this video was filmed at 29.97 FPS so gameplay might not look as smooth as it does in real life at 240 Hertz just throwing that out there and I want to bring up two things first up I love everything about this monitor okay I think hands down it's my favorite piece of tech that I've gotten this year and in recent memory the display is gorgeous the specs are crazy gaming felt brand-new again the light ring on the back looks sick and second if I'm being honest 49 inches isn't too wide okay I said it yes at first it seems massive but after a day or so you get used to it you adapt now on the other side of the spectrum there are some things I want to bring up not cons necessarily but just things to be aware of before you take the plunge to buy this first it's 2020 I wish there was a USB C port on the back come on Samsung get with it second obviously make sure you have a pretty powerful PC you know you need a powerful rake to take advantage of this monitor and the specs 5 2014 40 P 240 Hertz make sure you can properly run that and also make sure the games that you frequently play could be properly scaled to that resolution and you know just do your research on that make sure the games you play could also take advantage of the monitor you're also gonna need enough desk space as I showed you it takes up a large portion of your desk although you can wall mount it which I may do and also make sure you have enough wallet space because moment you've all been waiting for this comes in at 1699 yes $1,700 and that is a lot of money no doubt about that the most expensive monitor I've ever tried but it's also the most premium monitor I've ever tried it's the craziest monitor I've ever tried and I think hands down if you can't afford that and you want to upgrade you want to upgrade your setup and you know your gaming experience it is hands-down worth it in every regard I love this monitor it is the craziest thing I've ever seen ok so guys that'll wrap it up for my review of the Samsung Odyssey g9 hope you all enjoyed do you want to check it out I'll put a link for you in the description down below like this video give it a big thumbs up show your support feel free to follow me on Twitter at random Frank P and last if you haven't already hit that subscribe button hope you all enjoyed hope you're staying safe have a good day

Channel: randomfrankp

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Keywords: randomfrankp, 2020, 4k, review, Samsung, Odyssey, PC, Gaming, Desktop, Ultrawide, Curved, 1440p, 240hz, Refresh Rate, VA Panel, Colours, QLED, Display Port, Future, High Definition, samsung odyssey g9, 49 inch samsung curved monitor, 49 inch monitor, gaming monitor, 5120 x 1440, neo

Id: 1yRhk8iB2YU

Length: 11min 28sec (688 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 11 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Marvelm]

Dude basically never says anything useful

[u/ratfusion]

Its very subjective and doesn't include any test results that we're all looking forward to. He mentioned turning off adaptive sync but breezed by the subject.

[u/ValHaller]

This is another puff piece and likely paid promotion. Guy's whole channel is that way.

[u/SupaZT]

His Cons:

• No usb-c port
• Need a powerful rig
• Games might not also scale to the resolution
• Need enough desk space
• Pricey $1700 +tax+shipping

[u/DCinvestor]

Has anyone used this monitor? Versus the CRG9?

I need a large panel which I can use for work, but also for gaming. I don't do intensive graphics editing or anything, but a lot of work in documents.

The curve on this thing seems possibly too aggressive, whereas the CRG9 seems a lot more reasonable for this purpose. But would be curious to hear if anyone has first-hand experience with these panels.

[u/blazbluecore]

Nice good find. Need to watch this and that new Linus Tech Tips video.

[u/blazbluecore]

Wasn't a bad video. Better than nothing. Wish he filmed it in more than 30 frames though.