New Samsung monitors include 57-inch 8K ultrawide and two massive QD-OLED displays

[midian182]

What just happened? Remember the days when 32 inches was considered large for a monitor? That's not really the case anymore, and Samsung is continuing to embrace the era of massive displays with a 57-inch "8K" Mini-LED model, a 49-inch OLED, and several other new products.

Samsung unveiled its slew of new monitors ahead of CES 2023, which kicks off this week. The highlight is the successor to its $2,499, 49-inch Odyssey Neo G9, a mini-LED display we awarded 95 in our review. The all-new Odyssey Neo G9 ups the screen size to an incredible 57 inches.

Samsung teased the new Neo G9 back in November when it appeared as part of AMD's Together We Advance_Gaming livestream that unveiled team red's RNDA 3-powered graphics cards. The monitor features DisplayPort 2.1, and while it's being pushed as an 8K display, that resolution in a 32:9 ultrawide monitor only applies to the horizontal dimension, making it 7,680 x 2,160, or about half the pixel count of true 8K, though that's still an impressive number of pixels, admittedly.

Like its predecessor, this is a curved Mini-LED monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate. There's also a 1ms response time, 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, and support for HDR 1000. No word yet on the price, but expect to sell a kidney for this one.

The Odyssey G95SC

Samsung also unveiled the Odyssey G95SC monitor (above), a 49-inch 5,120 x 1,440 display that it claims is the world's first 32:9 aspect ratio OLED gaming monitor. It shares many of its specs with the upcoming 34-inch Odyssey G8 QD-OLED, including the use of QD-OLED technology, a 1ms response time, 1800R curve, adaptive sync, AMD FreeSync Premium, support for Samsung's Gaming Hub, and VESA's HDR True Black 400 certification. The larger monitor also comes with a faster 240Hz refresh rate—the Odyssey G8 QD-OLED tops out at 175Hz.

Port-wise, the two monitors both offer Mini DisplayPort, Micro HDMI 2.1, and USB-C charging of up to 65W. Again, Samsung has yet to announce any pricing for these displays.

The Samsung ViewFinity S9

Elsewhere, Samsung announced its first 5K monitor, the 27-inch ViewFinity S9, which offers a 5,120 x 2,880 resolution on its IPS display, a 99 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut, and HDR 600 support. Aimed at creators, the monitor also boasts a 4K webcam, HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C ports, and it can be calibrated using the SmartThingsApp and a smartphone camera.

The Smart Monitor M80C

Finally, there's an updated version of Samsung's Smart Monitor. The company has released several versions of this display, which tries to combine the best elements of modern smart TVs and monitors. The new Smart Monitor M80C has a 32-inch 4K display, a 16:9 aspect ratio, and a detachable SlimFit Camera. There's also a new personalization feature, and, like other models, it can run Microsoft Office 365 applications via a virtual machine without the need for a PC connection.

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[VitalyT]

8K is 7680 x 4320, and 7,680 x 2,160 is only half as many pixels.

It has been 5.5 years since Dell released UltraSharp UP3218K, and still the only real 8K monitor on the market. What on earth is going on?

 

[psycros]

8K is 7680 x 4320, and 7,680 x 2,160 is only half as many pixels.

It has been 5.5 years since Dell released UltraSharp UP3218K, and still the only real 8K monitor on the market. What on earth is going on?

Same as always: a solution in search of a problem.

 

[VitalyT]

Same as always: a solution in search of a problem.

Are you talking about the problem of not having 8K monitors?

How about:

- Editing 8K videos
- Watching YouTube 8K natively (without having to connect a huge and expensive TV)
- Playing occasional games (that do not need high refresh rate)
- Enjoying reading perfect font rendition on the screen
- 8K photos look incredible realistic

Here's a good review:

 

[Tams80]

8K is 7680 x 4320, and 7,680 x 2,160 is only half as many pixels.

It has been 5.5 years since Dell released UltraSharp UP3218K, and still the only real 8K monitor on the market. What on earth is going on?

No real need for them?

The amount of power required just to run those resolutions, and the amount of storage required to record in 8k, but even just distribute 8k is still so much that it is very expensive.

And for consumers it's really the case of diminishing returns. 'SD' to HD was a very clear improvement. The move to 'FullHD' was also very apparent (though less so, and HD is still watched and used by many today). The move to 4k was quite apparent, but most people do need to pay attention to really notice the difference.

The difference between 4k and 8k... I've seen 8k and other than being able to stick my nose against the display and barely be able to see the pixels on a massive TV... I couldn't tell the difference from 4k.

 

[kiwigraeme]

Since many Samsung has a production problem with it's QD-OLED tvs being curved ( ie bent ) - lets see how they do curved ones - TBF -monitors and more acceptable thicker

 

[Burty117]

Are you talking about the problem of not having 8K monitors?

How about:

- Editing 8K videos

So professionals only

- Watching YouTube 8K natively (without having to connect a huge and expensive TV)

As opposed to your huge and very expensive monitor? And this runs into other issues like, would you even notice the difference? YouTubes relatively broken HDR support and how good the encoding is.

- Playing occasional games (that do not need high refresh rate)

So the absolute minimum GPU you'd need is a 4090 of which, modern games would still need to support DLSS to make it run smoothly at 8k anyway. I've always wanted to spend thousands on an 8k monitor to play Half-Life 2.

- Enjoying reading perfect font rendition on the screen

Oh yeah, whenever I see a 4k screen I think to myself "damn, that font rendering is terrible! It looks all jagged and wrong".

- 8K photos look incredible realistic

Again, as opposed to the "unrealistic" photos on a 4k screen?

Here's a good review:

Is it though? Is it a good review? He's not exactly famous for great reviews. He just gets sent stuff and does no real objective testing, he just sorta shouts and looks impressed at pretty much everything he ever gets sent.
In that YouTube video alone:
2:18 - reminding us Windows scaling needs to work properly otherwise you can't read anything, older programs will have major issues.
2:39 - "keep in mind, you'll have to go off my reaction here"...
3:32 - Proceeds to zoom into the 8k photo, because he couldn't see the extra detail when being viewed natively.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it is a lovely display, but I don't think the resolution is what's making it look that good, it's a very well tuned IPS SDR monitor. At 280ppi it has a higher pixel density than modern iPad's, you can't see the pixel's on those even inches away from your eyes. Let alone a monitor that at 32 inches, is probably at least 20 inches away from your eyes.

Being an older screen it requires two DisplayPorts to run and I've seen issues with this setup, GPU's struggling to get both streams in-sync, accessing BIOS can be more of a half screen affair.

With maybe the exception of professional level monitors, I don't see 8k taking off anytime soon. Truthfully 4k hasn't really taken off yet, 1440p is only just sorta getting into the mainstream and 1080p still easily reigns supreme.

Maybe in 10-15 years when GPU's can handle it and decent panel's can be had for under a grand, then maybe we'll start to see some uptake on 8k.

 

[toooooot]

I bet dead pixels arre almost invisible in 8k displays

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Are you talking about the problem of not having 8K monitors?

How about:

- Editing 8K videos
- Watching YouTube 8K natively (without having to connect a huge and expensive TV)
- Playing occasional games (that do not need high refresh rate)
- Enjoying reading perfect font rendition on the screen
- 8K photos look incredible realistic

Here's a good review:

The last thing I think of when looking at a 4k display is "man look how jagged it is, I wish there were even more pixels".

Alos, LOL you think 8k TVs are expensive? A decent 8k monitor will be MORE expensive then a TV. All so you can watch the same bitcrushed youtube videos.

 

[wiyosaya]

I just want a normally sized monitor - not an oversized monitor that attempts to sell itself because its full of bling.

I have to wonder what the PC world has come to when every manufacturer wants every single dollar enthusiasts earn and tries to attract buyers with nothing more than bling and astronomical prices that seemingly impute "the best" to products that carry astronomical prices. IMO, its has gotten as bad as subscription TV was with 500 channels of crap that I never watched for one "low monthly price."

Honestly, I feel like I am being pandered to by cheap night creeps waving shiny trinkets and skin in my face. No thanks!

 

[Tams80]

I just want a normally sized monitor - not an oversized monitor that attempts to sell itself because its full of bling.

I have to wonder what the PC world has come to when every manufacturer wants every single dollar enthusiasts earn and tries to attract buyers with nothing more than bling and astronomical prices that seemingly impute "the best" to products that carry astronomical prices. IMO, its has gotten as bad as subscription TV was with 500 channels of crap that I never watched for one "low monthly price."

Honestly, I feel like I am being pandered to by cheap night creeps waving shiny trinkets and skin in my face. No thanks!

Ummm, there are plenty of smaller monitors that have really good specs at cheap prices now. It's never been a better time.

 

[ddferrari]

8K is silly at the moment. We've barely mastered 4K and that content is about as abundant as reasonably priced GPUs.