before we begin this unboxing and first impressions are sponsored by Samsung
this is the Samsung Odyssey g9 monitor
and I get to open it up oh yes I say
Odyssey g9 apparently there's two monitors in here Samsung is getting real
serious about gaming monitors now am I am gonna be able to get this out of here
by myself I know I know the g9 is the one you guys
all want to see but this one's really cool too
it's g-sync compatible which means it also has support for free sync 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 you'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 matters is 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 am surprised
at that oh this is nice screws are just
pre-installed in there for you but obvious to you where this goes
and here's how it goes 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 visa display
HDR 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 - Wow look at this thing Oh check this out that's a cool
cable management doodad 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 r/t X 20 atti to see just how far we get sorry
I was mistaken it's a Titan r-tx 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 Jason compatible and able g-sync
and able for windowed and full screen love it just even Windows animations are
so smooth 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 out a lot 240 frames per
second so there will be no excuses for losing now to be clear at 32 inches
1440p is not super high pixel density
but it's so much better than 1080 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 you know get
rid of any vivid color boost or black
equalizer like whatever nonsense you just want to see the srgb values as they
were intended by the game developer and it goes and you know vomits a bunch of
you know bright colors in your face or whatever but this is great you know it's
a funny thing like I marvelled 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 right here that's curious
my HDR profile was set to like 30
percent or something like that out of the box and because HDR assigns a
luminance value per pixel you definitely want
that set to a hundred percent on your display that looks a lot better donut
now you're not gonna get those dazzling you know highlights you know direct
suddenly reflecting off of things on a vase HDR 600 display like you would on a
1000 display but it still does look notably better than a vase a 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 proof miss when
it comes to sightseeing you know I can
be 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 like the only thing disturbing
the smoothness is the kind of jarring camera distance shifts that's it it's
like 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
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
these pupils or anything like that but his control stick is like very
well-defined almost no discoloration on the leading
or trailing edges a little bit of blue on the leading little bit of orange on
the trailing overall really good expect
to see a full follow up over on the LTTE 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 realized that
a it's time to go home and B this is already like 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 g9 but we're off to a real good start here