Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED G80SD review
When it comes to peculiarly off-target premium PC displays, Samsung has form. With the new Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED G80SD, a 4K 240Hz OLED panel, the company stays true to that dubious tradition. This thing is baffling.
If you'll forgive a digression and just as a quick reminder, perhaps the most egregious offender in Samsung's back catalogue of monitors misses is the Neo G9, a 49-inch mini-LED monster that shipped with some seriously shonky firmware, has been updated numerous times since, but remains fundamentally broken. It's hard to imagine what you'd think about all that had you forked out $2,000 for the thing.
At the same time, Samsung has also produced some frankly glorious displays, including the G9 OLED and the other Neo G9, the 57-inch dual 4K thing. And, yeah, that's a lot of G9s. Samsung's monitor branding is hopeless.
More broadly, it's hard to know what to make of Samsung as an overall entity. On the one hand it's a technological colossus, striding multiple segments from cutting-edge chip production to OLED display panels and high performance SSDs. It's also one of the world's leading smartphone, laptop, and TV makers.
Screen size: 32-inch
Resolution: 3,840 x 2,160
Brightness: 250 nits full screen, 1,000 nits max HDR
Color coverage: 99% DCI-P3
Response time: 0.03ms
Refresh rate: 240Hz
HDR: HDR10
Features: Samsung QD-OLED 3rd Gen panel, Adaptive Sync, 1x DisplayPort 1.4, 2x HDMI 2.1, SmartTV, phase-change cooling
Price: $1,299 | £1,099
It's unique in that regard and is capable of some quite magical things. Meanwhile, it can't sort out something basic like monitor firmware on a very expensive display. It's all rather odd. Anywho, with that in mind, where does the new Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED G80SD fit into the tech triumph-or-tragedy spectrum?
You'll probably have guessed by now it's somewhere towards the wrong end of the scale. But hold that thought while we cover off some basic speeds and feeds. The Odyssey G8 OLED G80SD is Samsung's take on the
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