Samsung has followed up on its popular Samsung Odyssey G9 with the Odyssey Neo G9, which brings some huge improvements.
There are few gaming monitors out there more luxurious than the Samsung Odyssey G9. The massive 49-inch monitor rocked a massive 5,120 x 1,440 resolution with a 240Hz refresh rate and even backed it up with an HDR 1000 rating. However,2021 is a whole new year and now we’re getting the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9, which takes everything that the Odyssey G9 did and turns it up to 11. We’re talking about better lighting, an HDR 2000 rating and a move to Mini-LED technology, which makes the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 one of the most advanced gaming monitors we’ve ever seen. However, not only will you need one of the best gaming PCs – probably something like the RTX 3080 as a minimum – the Neo G9 is even more expensive than it was last year. The Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 will be available around the world on August 9 2021, and will launch for a blistering $2,499 (about £1,809, AU$3,386). And if you’d like to get your hands on it right away, preorders will open on July 29 2021. This is, by far, one of the most expensive gaming monitors on the market, but it does bring a lot to the table that other gaming monitors simply can’t match. To our knowledge, this is the only gaming monitor with an HDR 2000 rating, which means it knocks the socks off of even the Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ, and will probably provide the best HDR in a gaming monitor today – though we need to give it a bit more testing before we can back that up. This is definitely a gaming monitor that you should only buy if you have a bunch of money burning a hole in your pocket. But, we can say that it will feel like an extremely luxurious product. We went hands-on with the Samsung Odyssey G9 in a dark room in the back of Samsung’s flagship store in New York, and so we can’t really go too in-depth with the overall design aesthetic. But we can say it doesn’t seem to have changed much. The back of the monitor is still a white plastic with a big RGB light ring in the back, and the bezels seem basically the same size as they were last year.
