First Look: Now With OLED, the Samsung Odyssey G9 Ultrawide Still Sizzles

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OLED gaming monitors have become increasingly common, and for good reason: OLED screens are in a league of their own, and they outclass IPS displays in almost every category. So how do you stand out in an increasingly crowded field? Go bigger, of course—or, in Samsung’s case, go wider.

On a recent visit to the Samsung 837 flagship-showroom-turned-retail store in New York City, PCMag got an opportunity to go hands-on with the company's upcoming ultrawide, the Odyssey OLED G9. While we were impressed by its dazzling display and giant wingspan, it remains to be seen if the massive monitor will justify its equally giant asking price of $2,199.

With a highly slim profile, the super-ultrawide Odyssey OLED G9 stretches to a 32:9 aspect ratio, and at 49 inches on the diagonal, it’s also the first of its kind. The "dual quad HD" display (5,120 by 1,440 pixels) wraps around your field of vision with a gentle 1,800mm curve. Also expressed as "1800R," this curve is the radius measurement of a circle that would be created by a hypothetical ring of these monitors placed edge to edge. The lower the millimeter count, the tighter the curve is.

But a curve is nothing without stunning visuals to go along with it, so the new monitor takes advantage of Samsung’s Neo Quantum Processor Pro, which instantaneously analyzes images and automatically adjusts brightness while amplifying contrast on a pixel-by-pixel level, the company says. We’ve seen similar AI upscaling techniques used on other Samsung monitors, like the Odyssey Ark.

Though it doesn’t reach a 4K pixel count (the native resolution is a little less than a million pixels short), you won’t even notice that there could be more pixels thanks to the vibrancy and clarity of the OLED panel.