Samsung has announced the availability of no less than three new high-tech additions to its market-leading Odyssey range of gaming monitors – including the world’s first OLED screen capable of supporting 500Hz refresh rates.
This ground-breaking OLED model is the 27G60SF: a 27-inch 16:9 screen that also boasts a QHD (2,560 x 1,440) native resolution and an ultra-fast GtG response time of 0.03ms. The new Odyssey OLED G6 is certified to the VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 performance level, too, while its inputs support variable refresh rates in both the NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro systems.
The Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 is the first OLED monitor with 500Hz refresh rate support.
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The 27G60SF uses Samsung’s own Quantum Dot twist on OLED technology, which experience suggests should lead both to purer colors (thanks to the technology’s pure RGB configuration) and enhanced brightness. Samsung confirms, in fact, that the Odyssey OLED G6 will be capable of hitting an impressive peak brightness of 1,000 nits. At the same time that its use of self-emissive OLED pixels should mean that it delivers beautifully pure, deep black colours.
Your connection with and appreciation of the 27G60SF’s seemingly extreme contrast should be enhanced, too, by its use of one of Samsung’s renowned Glare Free screens, which manages to remove almost all reflections.
The Odyssey OLED G6’s colors, meanwhile, have been Pantone Validated to ensure their accuracy, and it’s the latest Samsung monitor to benefit from the brand’s unique OLED Safeguard+ technology, where a combination of complex image analysis and an innovative “pulsating heat pipe” system that evaporates and condenses coolant behind different parts of the image for greater efficiency to stop the screen falling prey over time to permanent screen burn.
The two other new models in Samsung’s Odyssey monitor range are the 37 and 40-inch Odyssey G7s. Despite the similarity of their names, these two models aren’t just essentially the same monitors but with different screen sizes. The 37-inch Odyssey G7 features a steady 165Hz refresh rate and a native 4K UHD resolution of 3840×2160, yielding a 16:9 aspect ratio, while the 40-inch Odyssey G7 steps up the refresh rate to 180Hz, and switches to a WUHD resolution of 5120×2160, yielding a 21:9 native aspect ratio. It also uses its extra width to deliver split-screen gaming options not available on the 37-inch.
The 40-inch Odyssey G7 features a 21:9 aspect ratio, 180Hz refresh rate support, a 1000R curved screen, and a 1ms response time.
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Both screens feature though, the same 1000R degrees of curvature and 1ms quoted GtG response times, as well as VESA DisplayHDR 600 certification for their high level of clarity. They also both support the AMD FreeSync Premium Pro variable refresh rate system; auto source switching; CoreLighting+ technology that can enhance your gaming experience by using rear mounted LEDs to output ambient lighting capable of tracking the game image content; and the ability to tilt and adjust the screen’s height.
All three of Samsung’s new Odyssey monitors are available to buy now from Samsung’s website, with the 27-inch Odyssey OLED G6 costing $999.99, the 37-inch Odyssey G7 costing $899.99, and the 40-inch Odyssey G7 costing $1,199.99.
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