- Before we begin, this
Unboxing & First Impressions is sponsored by Samsung. This is the Samsung Odyssey G9 monitor, and I get to open it up. Oh yes. Did I say Odyssey G9? Apparently there's two monitors in here. Samsung's getting real serious
about gaming monitors now. Am I even gonna be able to get
this out of here by myself? (slams) I know, I know, the G9's the
one you guys all wanna see, but this one's really cool too. It's G-Sync compatible, which means it also has
support for FreeSync. It's got a 1000R curvature,
so that's designed to match the curvature of
the human eye, apparently, which is interesting. It is 32 inches, it runs at 240 hertz with a rated one-millisecond
response time, and... all of that stuff we've seen before. No, the big deal here is the resolution. So 240 hertz, yeah, we've seen it before, at 1920 by 1080. But this manages it at 2560 by 1440. So at this kind of screen size, and it's available in 27 or 32 inches, and this is the 32-inch one, it would not be pretty to
be sitting monitor distance from a 1080p display. 1440p, well that's a different story. Wow, that is really curved. I'm surprised at that. Oh, this is nice, screws are just pre-installed
in there for you. Is it obvious to you where this goes? (clattering) (snaps) And here's how it goes on. Oh yeah. And I'm a little surprised to see an external power supply
for such a large monitor. But the thing is, this is a
VESA DisplayHDR 600 monitor, which means that it is probably using some form of full array local dimming, which means that the
backlight for the display is much bulkier than what you would find in just a typical edge-lit display. That is a hefty power supply
too, wow, look at this thing. Aw, check this out. That's a cool cable management doodad. It's got a built-in headphone stand. The secret sauce here is the
DisplayPort 1.4 connection. So, while it does have an
HDMI input right about there, if you want that full 240
hertz refresh rate at 1440p, oh yeah, it also has a built-in
USB hub and an audio jack, you need to use DisplayPort, because that is a lot of bandwidth. That's basically like running
four times that resolution, so that would be 5k, at 60 hertz. Of course, in order to drive
that kind of resolution at that kind of frame rate, we need a lot of power. So we've equipped our
machine with an RTX 2080 Ti, to see just how far we get. Sorry, I was mistaken, it's a Titan RTX. Either way, hopefully we're gonna have enough horses for that butter smoothness. Of course, the refresh rate
is only part of the story for a gaming display. The other part is the
pixel response times, and one quick and dirty way
to see how good those are is just dragging a window
with text across the screen. You can see here, I'm getting very little in terms of discoloration
at the edge of my window, and text remains readable until I'm moving it quite
quickly across the screen. So you can see, it's actually curved a little bit more sharply in the middle, and it's a little bit
gentler towards the edges. Okay, G-Sync compatible, enable G-Sync, enabled for windowed and
full-screen, love it. Just even Windows
animations are so smooth. - [Crew Member] Oh, cool. - [Linus] Oh yeah. As I expected, this display
does have local dimming. High brightness, fps... Whoa, wow, that high
brightness is pretty bright. You can have a cheater crosshair. Wow, that is buttery smooth, running at a locked 240 frames per second. So there will be no excuses for losing. Man, that's sharp. Now, to be clear, at 32 inches, 1440p is not super high pixel density, but it's so much better than 1080. Oh, no no no no no! Oh no, run away! This is a really nice
pre-calibrated sRGB profile. I'm actually really happy with that. A lot of the time on
these gaming monitors, you just try to get rid
of any vivid color boost, or black equalizer, whatever nonsense, you just wanna see the sRGB values as they were intended
by the game developer, and it goes and vomits
a bunch of bright colors in your face or whatever. But this is great. You know, it's a funny thing, I marveled at this for so many years, how Samsung, leading
global technology company, based in South Korea of all places, took so long to take
gaming monitors seriously. But yet, here we are, and I'm like, this is why I wanted you
guys to do this stuff so many years ago, because this is great! The curve is gonna be
polarizing for some people, but when it comes to the
performance of the panel, I don't think we're gonna
see a lot of complaints from owners of this puppy. Now let's get real interesting,
I have just fired up HDR, and we're going to open up
"Shadow of the Tomb Raider" here. That's curious, my HDR profile was set to 30% or something like that out of the box, and because HDR assigns
illuminance value per pixel, you definitely want that
set to 100% on your display. That looks a lot better, don't it? Now, you're not gonna get
those dazzling highlights with direct sunlight
reflecting off of things on a VESA HDR 600 display like you would on a 1000 display, but it still does look notably better than a VESA display HDR 400 display. As you can see, even with the most powerful
graphics card on the market, we are struggling to break
150 fps on this puppy, so you're definitely buying
into the future-proofness when it comes to sightseeing eye-candy single player
games like this one. But eSports titles with
a powerful enough rig, as we've shown, can hit
that 240 fps consistently. Honestly, for this kind of game, this is plenty of fps, that is so smooth. The only thing disturbing the smoothness is the kind of jarring camera
distance shifts, that's it. Obviously we'd need to grab
the pursuit camera setup in order to objectively evaluate this, but having seen the UFO
test on a lot of monitors... (laughs) I am real impressed by this. Don't look at the 60 fps or 120 fps lines, the one we're after is 240 fps,
and that alien looks crisp. You can't quite make out his
pupils or anything like that, but his control stick
is very well-defined. Almost no discoloration on
the leading or trailing edges, little bit of blue on the leading, little bit of orange on the trailing. Overall, really good. Expect to see a full followup
over on the LTT channel once James is back from vacation, he's kind of our monitor guru these days. But initial impressions of this thing are really, really impressive. Now, I know I promised you guys that I was gonna do the G9 in this video, but I realize that A,
it's time to go home, and B, this is already
an eight-minute video, so I'm gonna make you guys subscribe and follow up probably the
next day, or maybe two days, we're gonna follow up with the G9. But we're off to a real good start here.
