Samsung Cranks Out a 500Hz OLED Gaming Monitor

Samsung has announced a caller acceptable of Odyssey gaming monitors, starring with the Odyssey OLED G6, a 27-inch, 500Hz show that the institution says has 0.03ms effect time. The caller display, which is joined by 2 caller Odyssey G7 curved gaming monitors, is disposable to bargain for $999.99 connected Samsung’s website and Amazon.

Wait, you ask, doesn't Samsung already person an Odyssey OLED G6 with an absurd refresh rate? Why yes, it does, and it's $100 cheaper, to boot. But its refresh complaint is simply a specified 360Hz! (Actually, there's an adjacent cheaper 240Hz model, too.) Would I ever beryllium capable to archer which is which by watching them? No, but listen, 500Hz is simply a bigger number, and bigger is better.

In each seriousness, the caller OLED G6 having an adjacent higher refresh complaint for this show feels much similar a stunt than a worth proposition. Digging astir successful the specs, I'm not seeing a bully crushed to driblet an other $100 connected it. It has the aforesaid QHD (2560x1440) resolutiion, the aforesaid HDR10+ support, the aforesaid dual HDMI 2.1 ports. Samsung lists the older 360Hz model's brightness arsenic measuring 250 nits, portion the caller 1 is 300 nits and VESA DisplayHDR TrueBlack 500 certified, truthful that's something. It's besides Pantone Validated for close colors and tegument tones; truthful it mightiness look a tad spot better, but it would beryllium hard to accidental truthful without seeing them side-by-side. Think of it arsenic being much similar a PC spec bump than a wholly caller display.

We mightiness arsenic good tally down immoderate different details. Around the backmost of this screen, you'll find an obligatory ringing of RGB lights and immoderate ports – 2 for HDMI 2.1 and 1 for DisplayPort 1.4, on with 2 USB-A ports, a USB-B port, and a headphone jack, The OLED G6 uses Samsung's Auto Source Switch+, which is fundamentally its mentation HDMI ARC, switching inputs for you erstwhile it detects that different connected instrumentality has travel online. The full happening sits connected a height-and-tilt-adjustable basal that tin pivot and swivel, too. (That's each worldly you'll find connected the older G6, too.)

As for the caller curved displays, Samsung released its caller Odyssey G7s successful 37-inch ($899.99) and 40-inch ($1,199.99) versions. Unlike the OLED G6, it's casual to spot what's caller here; principally, that they're bigger than the G7 line's existing 27-inch and 32-inch models. In astir ways, the displays are the aforesaid arsenic 1 another, featuring VA panels, a 1000R curve, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro support, VESA DisplayHDR 600 certification, and 1ms effect time. They each person 350 nits of brightness and enactment HDR10+ Gaming, too. Physical dimensions aside, wherever they disagree from 1 different is successful resolution, surface ratio, and refresh rate: The 37-inch exemplary is simply a 165Hz, 16:9 surface with 3840x2160 resolution, portion the 40-inch mentation is 21:9 with a 180Hz refresh complaint and 5120x2160 resolution.

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge. Inside of him determination are 2 wolves: 1 that thinks it wouldn't beryllium truthful atrocious to commencement collecting crippled consoles again, and the different who besides thinks this, but much strongly.