WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:07.440 it finally happened g-sync on oled 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:10.160 that's right g-sync on an oled tv and 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:14.960 today ladies and gentlemen wait 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:19.359 we are going to be trying it so lg sponsored this video thanks guys where 00:00:17.279 --> 00:00:24.480 i'm gonna be giving you guys the goods on how this came to be 00:00:21.680 --> 00:00:29.119 and taking it for a test drive this is how sandwich enthusiasts must have felt 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:31.679 when someone finally put ham and swiss 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:35.680 together for the first time right because like 00:00:33.760 --> 00:00:41.060 just ham that's not that great just swiss it's like bland right 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:46.030 swiss 00:00:49.120 --> 00:00:54.800 while we get set up oh wow okay uh 00:00:53.440 --> 00:01:00.960 we'll go through some background information g-sync is nvidia's name for the variable 00:00:58.879 --> 00:01:06.960 refresh rate gaming technology that they pioneered that reduces visual anomalies 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:09.200 like tearing stuttering and lag allowing 00:01:06.960 --> 00:01:14.080 games to look their best and feel super responsive and oled is a display tech 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:18.320 that has a handful of advantages over traditional lcd 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:24.080 so for one because every pixel emits its own light all the way from 700 to 800 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:29.040 nits down to completely off that means it's got perfect black sand 00:01:27.119 --> 00:01:34.400 infinite contrast for another thing the pixel response 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:40.320 times are actually closer to that of a crt or a plasma which means that there's 00:01:37.600 --> 00:01:45.840 no smearing during fast movement and finally oled offers very competitive 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:52.240 color performance so this particular unit has a 10 bit panel and boasts 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:54.320 nearly 99 coverage of the dci color 00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:58.719 space oh yeah i guess one other benefit if you're into it is oled panels can be 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.799 super thin because they don't need all those layers there's no backlight behind 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:08.479 it well that's just great except for one small problem 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:11.120 for variable refresh rate or g-sync to 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:17.200 work the graphics card from your gaming system has to be able to communicate 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:21.520 with your display otherwise how on earth would your tv know oh hey there's a new 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:25.840 frame ready for me and how would your graphics card know okay we're clear to 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:30.560 send a new frame now on the pc to solve this problem we use displayport which is 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:35.280 royalty free carries more bandwidth generation for generation has a locking 00:02:32.959 --> 00:02:41.040 connector and has supported this critical bi-directional communication 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:42.959 with an open basa standard for years 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:48.800 thing is in the consumer electronics industry we're still relying on hdmi so 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:53.519 amd's solution to this problem was to create a proprietary extension to 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:57.760 support adaptive sync over this connection relying on their market share 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:03.360 and home gaming consoles like the xbox and playstation to drive tv manufacturer 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:08.800 adoption nvidia meanwhile has evidently been playing the waiting game so 00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:12.480 let's talk about the feature of this tv 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:13.680 that makes the magic happen and it's all 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:21.920 over here every one of the four hdmi ports on this 00:03:16.239 --> 00:03:22.879 tv is hdmi 2.1 and hdmi 2.1 is flippin 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:28.519 sick it nearly triples the bandwidth of hdmi 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:32.239 2.0 allowing 4k tvs to run it up to 00:03:28.519 --> 00:03:33.760 120 hertz at full resolution without any 00:03:32.239 --> 00:03:38.319 frame interpolation or anything like that it supports e-arc for better sound 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:43.680 quality through supported sound bars and speakers it allows the automatic 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:46.000 detection of latency sensitive devices 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:49.760 like for example a game console so that your games won't feel floaty or laggy so 00:03:48.640 --> 00:03:55.599 it'll just go into game mode automatically and on supported devices 00:03:52.959 --> 00:04:01.439 it allows vrr or variable refresh rate operation over an industry standard 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:02.560 implementation rather than a proprietary 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:07.040 extension and what's cool is it actually took lg 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:12.959 building their own hardware in order to get these cool hdmi 2.1 features like 4k 00:04:10.799 --> 00:04:17.440 120 hertz and variable refresh rate working on their 2019 oleds 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:20.880 now with that said oh 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:24.720 we're not going to be able to try all of them today 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:30.080 because even the most state-of-the-art computer that exists now 00:04:26.880 --> 00:04:33.120 doesn't have hdmi 2.1 in fact there 00:04:30.080 --> 00:04:36.639 isn't a single consumer device that 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:39.440 outputs an hdmi 2.1 signal 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:43.520 so the best we can do is uh one of these 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:46.160 fortunately that's not too shabby all right 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:51.440 so let's see if this picked up immediately here i kind of doubt it will 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:57.600 we're definitely at 4k but we are at 30 hertz right now is that gonna fit 00:04:53.840 --> 00:05:00.080 there we go okay so it knew it was hdr 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:06.560 capable but the computer itself did not know to switch to hdr when the tv 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:07.840 uh okay that's fine all right so i wanna 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:13.680 know if it's just gonna show up 00:05:11.039 --> 00:05:18.400 and no it's not so that actually makes sense because it was only recently that 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:24.479 nvidia released a software update to their 20 and 16 series graphics cards 00:05:21.520 --> 00:05:29.840 allowing their hdmi ports to utilize the variable refresh rate feature 00:05:27.280 --> 00:05:37.199 from hdmi 2.1 so then they actually went and validated 00:05:32.880 --> 00:05:39.680 lg's entire 2019 lineup of oled tvs as 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:45.440 g-sync compatible so with this update then we're not getting any of the extra 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:47.039 bandwidth that a true hdmi 2.1 graphics 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:52.800 card could push so we're not going to be running at 4k 120 hertz 00:05:50.479 --> 00:06:01.759 but we are getting support for up to 1080p or even 1440p at 120 hertz or 4k 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:05.600 at 60hz and all of those are with g-sync 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:09.440 down to 40 fps so that's either a 40 to 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:12.880 60 fps window or 40 to 120 00:06:09.440 --> 00:06:15.919 and with a theoretical hdmi 2.1 graphics 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:19.039 card we could actually run 4k 120 hertz 00:06:15.919 --> 00:06:20.720 40 to 120 window enough chit chat though 00:06:19.039 --> 00:06:26.080 let's get this installed and see if it works as advertised wait sorry one last 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:30.240 thing so in order to ensure that g-sync is gonna work we need to apply the 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:33.280 latest update for our tv as well as our graphics drivers so we'll just give that 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:39.680 a couple minutes okay so we're in game mode 00:06:36.479 --> 00:06:42.000 input latency looks perfectly reasonable 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:45.280 let's go ahead and fire up our control panel and see if g-sync shows up if it 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:51.919 doesn't i actually don't really know what to do right now fortunately it does 00:06:47.840 --> 00:06:55.600 set up g-sync man this makes me so 00:06:51.919 --> 00:06:57.759 excited right now g-sync oled 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:01.440 and of course hdr 00:06:59.599 --> 00:07:05.759 so what's crazy is that 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:08.720 previously nvidia has differentiated 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:10.720 regular g-sync from g-sync ultimate with 00:07:09.520 --> 00:07:17.599 hdr but this is regular g-sync compatible but because 00:07:14.880 --> 00:07:21.440 it's an hdr tv we should be able to g-sync hdr on it 00:07:20.400 --> 00:07:29.199 okay i gotta just chill out and actually launch a game so we're gonna know real 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:30.479 quick if hdr is working or not hey there 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:35.120 we go okay looks like when we updated the tv 00:07:32.960 --> 00:07:38.880 it got a little confused hurt itself in its confusion and windows disabled hdr 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:45.120 okay let's try that again look at that launching a game 00:07:42.080 --> 00:07:47.039 boom so they're actually using a special 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:51.599 line refresh rather than frame refresh method that allows the input latency to 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:57.440 be even lower than it otherwise would be and that is feeling real good 00:07:54.080 --> 00:07:59.039 for 60 fps that is freaking awesome so 00:07:57.440 --> 00:08:03.840 we're in game it looks great 00:08:00.960 --> 00:08:09.280 but let's do a slow pan my controller is going to help me with this to see just 00:08:05.840 --> 00:08:13.840 how smooth it is that is about as butt 00:08:09.280 --> 00:08:13.840 trees move as it gets my friends 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:22.160 especially when you consider that we're running at only 60 fps 00:08:19.440 --> 00:08:28.000 hdr is definitely working well 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:30.560 it's exactly what i expected it to be 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:33.919 hdr and oled together at last 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:39.839 can i oh oh and i'm dead oh and face on the rock 00:08:37.680 --> 00:08:44.159 okay as usual it doesn't make you a better 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:49.839 gamer but boy does it ever look good however playing games at 4k 60fps 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:52.880 honestly isn't the thing i was most interested in 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:59.120 let's go ahead and change things up a little bit here all right so now it gets 00:08:55.200 --> 00:09:02.080 even better 2560 by 1440 120 hertz is 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:04.399 kind of um for nvidia anyway they're like 00:09:02.880 --> 00:09:09.040 best case scenario here but the thing that was weird to me 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:10.800 is that that's not a resolution that we 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:16.080 can use their new integer scaling feature on so there's gonna be some 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:21.279 interpolation now with that said from our experience with 4k and 5k desktop 00:09:19.040 --> 00:09:25.600 displays we have found that running at non-native resolutions is not nearly as 00:09:23.760 --> 00:09:29.279 noticeable as it used to be you know back when you're running at 1280x1024 or 00:09:27.839 --> 00:09:34.560 whatever the case may be so i am really curious to see how this 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:41.120 looks from uh from a normal viewing distance and still at the desktop this 00:09:38.560 --> 00:09:46.800 does not look great like text is not very sharp so you can you can really see 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:50.880 like some jaggies on the text one thing actually that we can use this to show 00:09:48.800 --> 00:09:56.240 though is check that out unlike on an lcd there's no smearing 00:09:53.760 --> 00:10:01.440 even with white text on a fully black background like you can really read the 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:03.680 text as i'm moving it around 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:07.760 hopefully game once you know the whole scene is in 00:10:05.760 --> 00:10:13.279 motion that those little jaggies are not that noticeable let's give it a shot 00:10:09.839 --> 00:10:16.240 guys i gotta say 120 fps locked like we 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:20.720 can do some six move pans now that is unreal 00:10:17.760 --> 00:10:22.880 no tears no stutters and 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:27.360 it just feels crazy responsive right we're 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:31.279 supposed to be looking at the uh the resolution compromise so here let's 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:35.279 maybe we can have a look at her hair if we get in on a bit of a 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:40.320 close-up here so you know what i can see a bit of a reduction in the 00:10:37.680 --> 00:10:45.519 definition of her hair for example but on anything that's at kind of a 00:10:42.880 --> 00:10:50.160 normal distance from the camera it's not too noticeable i'd say honestly the only 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:54.880 thing that i would do here is add maybe a touch of sharpening filter but i would 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:59.440 definitely take this over 1080p and i would also take 120fps over 60fps any 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:03.600 day of the week if you guys want to see the full details of that you can check out this video 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:08.800 over here of course this is just tomb raider though it's not exactly the most latency 00:11:06.800 --> 00:11:12.640 sensitive game so let's get a shooter up here and see how that feels 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:16.800 so to have a look at something a little bit more latency sensitive i fired up 00:11:14.560 --> 00:11:20.399 the bombsite defense map that we used for our 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:24.560 frame rate versus low frame rate versus high frame rate video and i want to see 00:11:22.800 --> 00:11:29.600 what kind of a time i can put up on this particular display 00:11:26.560 --> 00:11:31.519 now obviously limiting myself to 120 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:36.079 frames per second compared to the maximum that i had the day that we did 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:40.399 our test which was 240 is i'm not expecting my best time or anything but 00:11:38.560 --> 00:11:45.680 as long as i'm pretty close i consider that darn good so that was 29 seconds 00:11:42.880 --> 00:11:45.680 let's do one more run 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:54.480 24.23 that's a pretty good time for me 00:11:50.880 --> 00:11:54.480 like honestly it feels pretty good 00:11:54.560 --> 00:12:01.200 i wish my mousepad was a little bigger but i mean that's my biggest complaint 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:03.440 right now come on 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:07.600 uh 26.31 i mean i'm at the point now where i'm 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:11.040 kind of ready to say that other than that i'm running g-sync 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:14.880 instead of just letting the frame rate be uncapped 00:12:12.560 --> 00:12:18.720 like there would be no excuse for me to not be 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:21.519 as competitive as i can be anyway on a display like this 00:12:23.040 --> 00:12:27.600 26.31 not bad 00:12:26.160 --> 00:12:32.720 all right colton have a seat 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:37.200 what have i done no you're definitely better than me what 00:12:34.079 --> 00:12:39.279 do i do what is this this is a gaming tv 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:43.839 roger actually it's just a tv it just happens to have super low input lag and 00:12:40.880 --> 00:12:47.839 run at 120 fps at 1440p so you have to 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:51.360 kill what is it 15 of them ed yeah you got to kill 15 of them as fast as you 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:54.000 can and apparently you can do it better than 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:57.519 me so go for it i'm gonna i'm about to get 00:12:55.680 --> 00:13:02.320 ready no go for it first off your sensitivity is so high 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:05.279 any time now colton all right okay take it back take it back yeah you 00:13:03.760 --> 00:13:11.600 win you win you win you're much better okay terrorists win 00:13:08.800 --> 00:13:15.120 all right ed have a seat first 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.120 have a seat 00:13:18.839 --> 00:13:24.800 21.17 dang all right 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:28.560 i win all right you win all right now let's try a game where both smoothness 00:13:27.040 --> 00:13:34.480 and performance are going to matter this one so it says battlefield 5 running at 00:13:31.040 --> 00:13:36.720 ultra settings on our rtx 2080 ti is 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:40.000 right within the g-sync window that is going to give us the most benefit out of 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:47.760 this display so we're sitting anywhere from around 55 to 00:13:44.040 --> 00:13:49.120 75-80 fps as we're charging this gun 00:13:47.760 --> 00:13:52.480 position here so a game like this is exactly where 00:13:50.800 --> 00:13:56.240 you're going to get the most benefit out of a display like this because we're 00:13:54.079 --> 00:14:03.040 running right in the sweet spot of its g-sync window so anywhere from around 80 00:13:59.839 --> 00:14:04.720 down to as low as around 55 frames per 00:14:03.040 --> 00:14:09.040 second as you can see we dip to right there so without g-sync that's going to 00:14:07.199 --> 00:14:13.440 affect the smoothness of your animation it's going to add tearing or stutter but 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:18.320 with g-sync it won't so for our last trick we've got the classic nvidia 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:23.440 g-sync pendulum demo which simulates swinging between 40 and 60 fps showing 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:27.839 off the way that g-sync smooths it out and of course it's working exactly as we 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:31.519 expect so lg is not billing this thing as a gaming tv per se because it's good 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:38.639 for well anything you could want to do with it but 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:40.720 confirmed it is freaking sick for gaming 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:45.040 my only regret is that their announcement for this technology 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:49.040 actually came out in between me filming and us releasing my video 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:54.240 getting rid of the oled in my living room so that we could uh have a gaming 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:57.760 display in the living room at home so i think it's 00:14:55.440 --> 00:15:01.199 probably time for to play tv shuffle and move one of these 00:14:59.920 --> 00:15:04.560 to my house so thanks to lg for sponsoring this 00:15:03.040 --> 00:15:08.959 video and of course providing the tv that we showed you guys today thanks to you for watching if you guys are looking 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:12.399 for something else to watch maybe check out the video where i first upgraded to 00:15:10.959 --> 00:15:17.279 an oled because i go over some of the benefits of oled outside of just gaming