an odyssey neo g9 she's a beaut
if the samsung odyssey g9 is the mother of all gaming monitors than this
this right here is her grandma this is the odyssey neo g9 and samsung
sponsored this video where we're gonna be taking it for a test drive it's got
everything that you liked about the original odyssey g9 it's got a 240hz
refresh rate high resolution g-sync freesync compatible panel obviously it's
49 three king inches diagonally
but with an extra trick up its sleeve this one has a mini led backlight and if
it is anything like samsung's qled neo tvs
i am ready to be really impressed
i feel lucky just to have one of these let alone be doing a sponsored video of
it the g9 was basically impossible to get the entire time that
it was the ruler of the roost and samsung seems to have taken a bit of a
hey if it ain't broke don't fix it approach here
that's why we're seeing the same aggressive 1000 r curve i mean look how
freaking curved this thing it's absolutely incredible the same rated one
millisecond response time and the same 5120 by 1440 resolution that's a great
balance between being dense enough that you're not going to see individual
pixels sticking out like a sore thumb but also somewhat reasonable to drive
with a modern graphics card though you will be treating yourself to a 30 70 or
greater in order to properly power this thing
probably 30 80. but hey you treated yourself to uh to a
neo g9 so you can handle it
oh
love the screws are already pre-threaded into the holes for me that's really nice
whoops okay that setup process really wasn't that involved other than
don't take the panel out of the box until you've attached the stand to it
see you later box oh i forgot how heavy this boy was
oh i mean everything's in here 49 inch display
mini led backlight the power supply is internal
it's just a lot of gear in there
actually before we move around to the front the cosmetic ring is the same but
the RGB lighting at the back can now synchronize with what's being displayed
on screen so it can actually kind of put a glow on the wall behind the monitor
that reflects what's happening in the game which is kind of cool
if you're into that sort of thing also before we turn it around i feel we did a
bit of a disservice just talking about the mini led upgrade because we've got
displayport 1.4 that we already had that's how we run 240 hertz 5120 by 1440
with display stream compression but also now we've got HDMI 2.1
now i actually don't know from samsung's materials if we're going to be able to
run full resolution with a single HDMI link but we're certainly going to try it
it's also got a built-in usb 3 hub and
that's about it so let's go ahead and get all that stuff plugged in cable
managed cable management's pretty slick got your headphone hanger back here as well boop
a little something like that although this thing is so big
i don't know that i would want to reach around behind it to get at my headphones
just like that love it just be careful with the cable
management right because this is a height adjustable monitor
so you don't want to have too much tension on these because you might end up pulling the the plugs out and with a
locking connector like displayport there is the potential that you could
damage your cable or the socket
whoops oh my goodness it's so wide right out of the gate it fired up then but
that doesn't necessarily mean that it's running optimally so if we go into our
not that display settings we can see that we're actually running at only
144 hertz i don't quite know why that is yet but i
promise you i will figure it out if i had to guess i would say it's because
the HDMI connection is what got picked up first it's got a nipple style navigation for
the menu so we're just going to go into our sources here i definitely prefer
this and you can see yep it picked up our HDMI link first so it looks like
that might be limited to 144 hertz
still respectable but displayport is going to be a better experience
i know why i didn't plug dp in on the other side uh there it is it has picture
in picture and picture by picture well how handy is that so many desktop
monitors don't support that anymore i can see why they do it because you could
totally just have your desktop over here and then have your laptop set to another
input or something like that and you know just have them have use it as
two monitors it's not its wheelhouse that's not the
best possible use of a display of this caliber but it's definitely there
oh well there's a refresh rate toggle in
the menu i can see why they would default it to
120 though because you have to have a graphics card that supports display
stream compression in order to run it at 240. oh
oh yeah i'm just going to unplug that HDMI cable it got confused again
beautiful oh silky smooth of course that's not new
let's talk mini led in the original odyssey g9 they had 10 local dimming
zones which means that whenever you were moving around a bright object on a dark
background say for example a mouse cursor you would see enormous
halos around it and they were particularly noticeable when you were
viewing them off axis now they have ramped that up to
2048 zones you are still going to see some bloom
that's the cold hard truth but
unlike the previous generation model now
it's only going to be applicable to something like an edge case where you've
got oh i don't know a black ms paint
window and you're moving a white icon around on it compared to before when it
was actually noticeable in content actually you know what the off axis
performance is not bad either it's better horizontally than it is
vertically but given that you'll normally be
sitting in front of it like this i i can see why they would have tuned it
that way you know what we should do we got to turn off the studio lights
yeah let's let's kill them no no we're trying to make it look bad
right now here comes a worst case scenario i know i know it's sponsored by samsung but
people got to know what they're buying so yeah okay perfect so what you can also
see here is that there's a bit of a trail behind it so you can actually see how they've
tuned the reactivity of the individual zones
so it's fast but it's not instantaneous
this is an absolutely worst case scenario tiny white dot moving around on
a black screen but people should know what they're getting that being said though you can really see the difference
samsung's new panel makes on the neo g9 when you put it next to an edge lit
panel like this one straight on from a reasonable viewing distance it's much
harder to make out that's pretty impressive no andy i'm fairly certain
that that is the dumbest idea ever he's like hey you know what be a good
use case for this monitor you game on half of it and then you make the other
half just white and then you don't have to get a light for your streaming
that's it
it would work
no i do not accept it he's not serious you
guys and he knows better than that man this monitor has so much dynamic
range that honestly i feel like when the game
plays around and makes the scene respond kind of like your eye would so if you
look up at the sky this all kind of goes too dark it feels unnecessary it feels like i
could just let my eye do the responding and the monitor could display pretty
much all of it now a big contributor to the improvement
in image quality over the last generation auto cg9 is that even though
samsung doesn't have a certification to back this up they're rating the new neo
g9 at 2 000 nits that is double what
they rated the original g9 at and while it isn't basa certified it is vde or
verbran deutscher electrotechnica institute certified so this contributes
not just to greater brightness but when combined with quantum dot color this
should create greater color volume than last year's model as well plus with all
the local dimming zones you can see very clearly once we're looking at actual
content you don't see them anymore like if we
have a mouse cursor sure it's noticeable
not in actual gameplay now this is a game that looks absolutely
fantastic in HDR
oh sorry sorry sorry
sorry like is that not fantastic
racing games we already did a video with the last gen one just showing what an
amazing racing game experience you have with a monitor like this but the
immersion is just incredible like when you're sitting a
reasonable distance from it it's hard for me to host the video from here just
because it reflects all the sound back at me but when you're sitting a reasonable distance from it it takes up
probably a solid 80 percent of your field of view
there's nothing short of going to a head-mounted display that is going to
achieve that the way this does and then you don't get the resolution
like it's very screen door effects still by these standards
HDR is definitely working but do maternal yeah default resolution of like
640x480 not gonna look great on a display like
this oh boy
here we go got some performance metrics at least we
got lots of FPS's hey hey that's more like it
oh man this is yup
very noticeably HDR for a gritty like ugly brown game
it's like really pretty
oh look at this that looks freaking awesome compared to
the last generation odyssey g9 it's not like this is a complete game changer
they both offer an outstanding HDR experience 240 hertz
um essentially half of 5k right like it's
5k but it's mega ultra wide
so if you already have one of those it's not like you're going to swap it out for this but if you're in the market for an
immersive gaming monitor this one's got all the bells all the
whistles all the kitchen sinks all those things that people want in
their products for whatever reason why do people want bells whistles and kitchen sinks
it's weird and you'll find the link for it down below thanks again for watching thanks
to samsung for sponsoring this video and thanks to LTT Store for just having such
outstanding merchandise at such fair prices
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