DON’T Buy This - QD OLED G8 Samsung G85SB Monitor Review

oh God a brand new reasonably sized High refresh rate quantum dot OLED monitor is available I know what you're asking who can I throw my money at to purchase this work of art but wait a minute before you punch a hole in the wall with your loins let's first take a look at this bad boy to determine whether or not it's actually worth buying and starting off with the specs the Samsung g85 SB is a 175 Hertz glossy oh 34 inch curved 21x9 quantum dot OLED panel with a resolution of 3440x1440 giving it a PPI of 109.68 so slightly better than the 42 inch LG C2 it also boasts a contrast ratio of 1 million to one in a lightning fast response time of a stated 0.03 milliseconds which of course will make this a fantastic gaming monitor blowing even the best LCDs out of the water in terms of motion Clarity additionally it supports freesync and g-sync Technology though I do believe it does not have a g-sync module which is a real shame considering the price it's rated for HDR 400 true black has viewing angles of 178 degrees and thank God it has Bixby support and in terms of ports we're talking about and here's where things start to get rough it has a Mini DisplayPort one micro HDMI 2.1 Port which it is nice to have 2.1 two USB C ports and a non-standard power plug so don't lose it and I'm sure some people will find the mini ports cool but realistically it's just annoying to me because nobody's gonna have these chords lying around meaning if you want to use HDMI 2.1 I guess you better order a cable on Amazon or something since mine didn't come with one the stand sucks by the way and yes it does have Vasa Mount compatibility ability and finally this thing comes in at a whopping fifteen hundred dollars so it better be good and there's only one way to find out that's right let's break this bad boy in starting off with the color here we can see actually by default it wasn't too far off from the white point I would like however the RGB values were way off so I was able to calibrate it to a perfect 6500k with a Delta e of just 0.2 a great improvement over the 8.3 which by the way I will have all my settings as well as ICC profile for not only this monitor but all the monitors I ever review on my patreon Linked In the description below however the only downside to this calibration is it did seem to reduce the brightness by around eight percent but hey I think it's a small price to pay for an actually accurate display now moving on to the color gamut after calibration I got 99.3 srgb 81 Adobe RGB and 85.9 DC IP 3 in terms of volume I got 126.7 srgb 87.3 Adobe RGB and 89.7 DCI P3 So Pretty good overall although I would like to see this get better with future versions now moving on to the really exciting stuff and here we got to talk about the peak brightness and this one it is a little bit disappointing when compared to its bigger brother the s95b which is using similar panel technology as you can see in a 10 window it falls far short at 427 nits whereas the s95b I got 946 nits and yes I did go into the settings and make sure that I was able to get the brightness boosting unlocked so unless there's something I missed this is likely as bright as it's gonna get after calibration which again that's about half the brightness of the s95b so a little bit disappointing when it comes to the peak brightness however the brightness in a 100 window is actually very impressive it is the brightest OLED I have tested so far when it comes to that full screen brightness coming in at 237 nits beating out even the s95b meaning that yes if there's a very bright overall scene this monitor will likely do very well but now let's go ahead and take a look at a game Battlefield 1 HDR and the peak brightness I got out of this was 364 nits so once again that Peak brightness is a little bit disappointing because it comes in last when compared to all the other oleds even the Fairly dim 27 gr95 QE Dash B what a great name from LG which I found to be fairly dim overall although I will say this monitor even though it doesn't have that Peak brightness once again the full screen is actually much brighter than many of the oleds on this list so it's a little bit better than it looks on this chart but now let's go ahead and talk about the total system latency and here I was a little bit disappointed because at 175 Hertz you'd expect it to be better than the 34 milliseconds that it brought in actually making it one millisecond slower than the s95b at 144 Hertz so what's the point of those extra frames well you do see a smoother image but if it's not going to reduce your latency part of that Advantage is kind of getting thrown out the window so once again s95b does seem to be outperforming it in many metrics and then you look at that LG OLED and oh my Lord is that smoke this monitor in terms of latency and now moving on to power draw this is a new one I'm adding in so I don't have a whole lot of results but here you can see that yes OLED does draw a lot more power than LCD as it is drawing 123 watts in a full wide screen versus the 40.5 on an LCD display however the s95b is drawing a whopping 257 Watts so it is a lot better than that and then finally taking a look at the ghosting test here you can see I did follow it with the camera and it is giving us nearly a perfect screenshot at 175 Hertz quantum dot OLED technology just gives you such a fantastic moving image that it's again nearly a perfect screenshot and gets nowhere near the atrocious Black Level smearing and inverse ghosting you can expect to see on even the best LCDs so this is a big reason as to why I suggest people if you can budget it purchase an OLED monitor of some kind as it will give you a much cleaner image which in motion can help quite a bit in online gaming now in terms of overclocking this thing I could not get any overclocks to work whatsoever so you're not getting any extra performance likely in terms of the Finish as I mentioned earlier it's using a beautiful glossy display so quantum dot OLED plus glossy not only gives you a fantastic image when looking straight at it but also that curve helps so that you don't get any uniformity issues visibly when you're looking straight at it considering how long the monitor is in terms of the viewing angles however if you do view it at the side for some reason it's actually fantastic it looks really really good and I didn't see any major uniformity issues whatsoever now it does have any g-sync issues because it doesn't have a g-sync ultimate module I didn't notice any however I have noticed on a lot of monitors if you bring up a program like Premiere Pro if it's not g-sync ultimate which it looks like this monitor isn't there is a possibility that certain programs may give you some flickering so do keep that in mind the Alienware version likely will not have that issue because it's a certified g-sync ultimate display now other issues that I had with this display well unfortunately it's Samsung so there's gonna be quality control issues on their monitors because for whatever reason I have the worst luck with their monitors and it happened yet again I got actually some weird TV static when opening up or closing certain programs additionally just because of the way they have their RGB layout it does have red and green color fringing on the edges of text funnily enough the s95b using the same monitor technology I don't notice any color fringing whatsoever however on this one very noticeable and honestly it's so bad that I would say I cannot recommend this for any type of video or photo editing it's unusable it also has some backlight issues or if you put any amount of light in front of it it'll kind of light up the backlight for some reason and then again yeah you're gonna have probably some amount of Samsung quality control issues on quite a few of them that go out because honestly at this point guys I don't think that Samsung's monitor division even has quality control because I have purchased around 10 different monitors from Samsung over the last 10 years in every single one without fail has had some sort of quality control issue and it seems like that's not changing as again I did have issues with this monitor as well so honestly guys to give you my conclusion is the display beautiful absolutely is it fast yes it's a fantastic OLED display but considering that it's made by Samsung and it's having quality control issues and it doesn't have g-sync ultimate and it's 200 more than the Alienware version which does and it has some really knowing mini display and micro HDMI ports I honestly cannot recommend this display to anybody it makes no sense whatsoever to pick it up over the Alienware version and I'm also going to start giving people a disclaimer that considering how many Samsung displays that I picked up in terms of monitors that have had issues I gotta warn you on basically every single Samsung monitor out there be very careful that it has a good warranty because there is a good chance that it could have quality control issues and that's just yet another reason for me not to recommend this display if you're interested in this I highly recommend taking a look at the Alienware version yes it doesn't have HDMI 2.1 however it has so many other things about it that I like more than this and it's actually cheaper and even the wdf which has a slightly lower refresh rate no g-sync ultimate is even cheaper I think it's around a thousand dollars so you're saving between 200 to 500 if you go with one of the Alienware models and you're really not giving up a whole lot so I'm gonna give this a big thumbs down it's a beautiful display but it's just makes makes no sense to purchase you know what in fact I give this and Samsung's monitor division the middle finger get your together Samsung whether you're looking to connect a new console gaming PC or just need a fast and reliable HDMI cable to connect over long distances roopro has you covered with 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Length: 10min 51sec (651 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 16 2023