![]() Some screens can be set up to render SDR almost indistinguishably in either SDR or HDR modes. What’s more, SDR content is handled poorly in HDR mode. But the Neo G9 isn’t quite as dramatic an upgrade over the old G9 as you might expect from the huge uptick in dimming zones and doubling up on peak brightness. It’s also much harder to pick up on the backlight issues that are so very obvious on the desktop. At its best, HDR content seriously sizzles. The final piece of the puzzle is HDR performance. ![]() But if you can afford this 49-inch monster, you can probably stretch to the equally expensive graphics board to go with it. Normally, that would be a significant problem. Running at 240Hz, the Neo G9 feels lightning-quick, provided you have the megabucks GPU required to drive it at really high frame rates. Even using the most aggressive of the three levels of user-configurable overdrive offered in the Neo G9’s OSD menu, there’s no discernible overshoot. We’re not sure how Samsung has managed to create such fast VA panels of late. It’s no slouch when it comes to competitive online shooters, either. In that context, the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 delivers arguably the best visual experience on the PC today. Graphics-heavy titles such as Cyberpunk 2077 or Witcher III are what the G9 does best. For sheer gaming immersion, the crazy 1000R curve, huge 49-inch proportions, and relatively high resolution combine to deliver an experience that few, if any, screens can match. All of what made the original G9 so fabulous remains. The question of whether it’s an issue worth putting up with in return for the in-game experience is tricky. But at this price point, it’s surely a serious flaw. You could say, so what? This monitor isn’t designed for serious content creation or office work. Even uglier, if something like a bright dialogue box pops up across the divide between light and dark elements, the result is a gradient of brightness across the box.įor the record, all this applies to both SDR and HDR modes and, on the Windows desktop, it’s all rather messy and distracting. Or let’s say you move a small, bright object over a dark background. But by way of example, if you position a bright white window next to an all-black window, the adjacent edge of the former visibly dims. ![]() Admittedly, they’re most visible on the Windows desktop rather than in-game or watching video. But the Neo G9 has its own, surprisingly crude, backlight-induced image quality issues. Visible halos around small, bright objects are the sort of issue you expect from full-array dimming. The results are never going to be perfect. Put another way, an algorithm has to decide how bright any given zone should be based on the image data. The problem with any backlight-based rather than per-pixel local dimming technology is that compromises have to be made. Nor, to be entirely candid, is it the technical tour de force we’d been hoping for. That HDMI 2.1 interface may come in handy one day, but right now this epic panel isn’t a good fit for any console. And remember that, for now, neither the Microsoft Xbox Series X|S or the Sony Playstation 5 support the G9’s extreme ultrawide aspect ratio and resolution. The full 240Hz action is available only via DisplayPort. So you can enjoy up to 144Hz refresh over HDMI, including 120Hz with the latest consoles. As for additional upgrades, the Neo G9 now supports HDMI 2.1.
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