Personally, I barely lose curiosity above 240 Hz in relation to monitor refresh charges. After all, I hung up my aggressive shooter aspirations a decade or extra in the past. However if you wish to be actually, really aggressive, you may’t have too many hertz. Which is why the brand new Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 is massive information. It is the world’s first 500 Hz OLED gaming monitor.
We have seen 500 Hz panels earlier than, in fact. However they’ve all been LCD panels—and if I bear in mind appropriately, 1080p LCD panels at that. Yuck. The brand new 27-inch Odyssey OLED G6 fixes that not solely courtesy of OLED panel expertise, but in addition 2,560 by 1,440 or 1440p decision.
Meaning it will make a reasonably good all-round gaming panel, which is one thing you may’t all the time say about, as an example, a 1080p LCD monitor based mostly on a TN panel with garbage viewing angles.
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What’s extra, Samsung charges the panel at 300 nits for full-screen brightness, which is a step up on the 250 nits of most if not all earlier Samsung-based gaming displays. On that foundation, it could be utilizing Samsung’s newest super-bright QD-OLED panel tech, as introduced at CES.
For positive, it is enabled Samsung to up HDR score from the standard HDR 400 True Black to HD500 True Black. You additionally get the standard OLED advantages, together with 0.03 ms response occasions.
Mixed with the five hundred Hz refresh, that ought to make for nearly the clearest and most responsive movement rendering of maybe any show tech we have but seen on the PC. There’s, inevitably, a catch. The Odyssey OLED G6 is at the moment listed on Samsung’s web site at $1,488.
That is a faintly ludicrous value for a mere 27-inch 1440p panel, even one this quick. Lengthy story brief, you may need to be completely determined for that improve in pace and response to significantly take into account this monitor when you may practically purchase a pair of 32-inch 4K OLEDs for a similar cash and nonetheless have a really nippy expertise, plus a bigger and extra immersive viewing expertise and much better pixel density, to not point out massively improved multi-tasking for non gaming apps.
After all, it’s also possible to get a 49-inch ultrawide OLED with precisely the identical pixel density as this new Samsung for about $900. That is primarily two 27-inch 1440p OLEDs fused collectively and makes this Samsung appear to be an awfully rum deal—until you are all about that refresh.
