- [Linus] Samsung display demanded
that I open this package
and take a look at what they and MSI have come up with.
And you know what I have to say to that? Demanded?
What makes them think that they can tell me what to-
- [Writer] They sponsored the video!
- [Linus] I see.
And it's a pretty exciting one
because inside this box is a world's first, it's a laptop.
A laptop with a 240 Hertz display, but wait, there's more!
See how it's on but the screen's still black?
It's OLED and it runs at 1440p resolution,
making this basically the dream display
that I've been asking manufacturers to build for years.
Now, all it has to do is live up to my lofty expectations.
The competitive advantage of a high refresh rate
display is pretty well understood at this point.
There's the intuitive benefit that is,
if your display updates more frequently
obviously your eyes will get a more up-to-date view
of what's going on in the game, compared to your opponent,
but there's a less obvious benefit as well.
By reducing the delay or the latency
between moving your hand
and the changes being reflected on screen.
You experience an improvement in input control,
that helps especially with tracking fast moving targets.
To be clear, this is not enough to turn a novice into a pro,
but if you wanna take advantage of every competitive edge,
you'll find a high refresh rate display beneficial
for everything from fast-paced shooters,
like Doom Eternal to even racing games like Forza.
We could cite our own findings for this,
but we don't have to
because we're not the only ones to explore it.
In an experiment from Hanyang University
published in 2019, 12 participants in their twenties
and thirties were selected to play aim hero.
And in a narrow play field
with a refresh rate of 144 Hertz,
participants were found to be firing just
over 3% faster, with 3% more accuracy
than that same monitor set to 60 Hertz.
When the play field was widened,
the results are even more dramatic with participants playing
on 144 Hertz firing 4.5% faster with nearly
13% higher accuracy compared to their 60 Hertz scores.
But high refresh rate alone is not enough.
Take this display for example,
It was cobbled together using a scaler from ZisWorks
and a generic 4k LCD laptop display.
Way back in 2017,
We had this thing going as high as 480 Hertz.
I mean, that sounds like a pretty responsive
gaming experience, right?
But the pixels themselves were so slow
that they wouldn't even be finished transitioning
to their new state, when the next input signal came in
turning everything into a blurry mess,
as soon as you started panning the camera around.
And while modern gaming LCDs have come a long way,
to overcome this effect, they still rely
on tricks like pixel overdrive and backlight strobing,
each of which comes with their own drawbacks
like visual anomalies and reduced brightness.
but OLEDs like this one
have naturally much faster response times.
Samsung rates this particular panel
at roughly 10 times the speed of its LCD counterparts.
That means that aside from the buttery smooth animations
that we can expect with a 3070 TI
driving it at up to 240 Hertz,
the image clarity as fast moving objects are going
across the screen is on par or better
than the best desktop gaming displays, even compared
to the best CRT displays OLED offers superior clarity
making them a near enough alternative for all
but the fussiest of retro gamers.
We did a full video recently,
comparing OLED and CRT that actually
has an extra detailed look at David setup
over on Floatplane.com if you're into that.
Man, that clarity though.
Oh, it's so sharp.
Whoa, what the crap is this guy.
F, ah, there we go.
Well, what the-
OLEDs are also well known
for their ability to turn off individual pixels.
I've been a cheerleader for this technology
since the first time I laid eyes on it back in 2013.
And it's because the high contrast that's enabled
by perfect black levels does as much
for the perceived resolution
as increasing the actual pixel count.
Man, does that ever create an immersive atmosphere
for darker games?
Like stray, doesn't it?
Oh, no.
Kitty. I haven't actually played this yet
but it looks great on this, on that subject.
It feels like for years we were stuck
with either 10 ADP or 4k as our options for laptop panels.
And it was so frustrating to me because at honestly
anywhere from 13 to 17 inches
the ideal resolution is actually 2560
by 1440 or 2560 by 1600.
You get rid of the blockiness of 10 ADP
but without putting the additional strain
on your GPU that comes with 4k
at least if you wanna run at native resolution
and someone, namely Samsung display, finally listened.
So not only do we get 240 Hertz OLED,
but it runs at 1440p meaning
that the 3070 TI in this machine will be able to
drive modern games to look their best.
And the core I7-12800 HK
in here is actually a really important key to this as well,
because when you're really trying to push upwards
of a hundred, 120 frames per second
CPU performance limitations
that you otherwise wouldn't notice
start to rear their ugly heads.
Man, does that look sharp or what?
Like, can you make out a pixel with your eye, Brandon?
- [Brandon] No.
What just happened?
Like I said, it's not gonna turn you
into a pro all of a sudden.
Yep. I have no idea what happened there
but apparently I won, so maybe I lied.
Maybe it does turn you into a pro gamer overnight
it doesn't
but a couple of fun side effects of OLED are
that if you're playing a game like stray, for example
that takes place mostly in the dark.
Your overall system power consumption will actually go
down a small amount.
And since OLED displays don't require a backlight,
Samsung helpfully points out that the amount
of blue light that they emit
in the 415 to 455 nanometer wavelength
range is actually greatly lessened.
Here, take a look at this shiny little disc right here
is a bend pass filter that only allows light
through in the 436 nanometer wavelength.
When we hold it up to a camera and look at an LCD display
you can see how much blue light is coming through.
But when we use the band pass, filter on our OLED display
you can hardly tell that it's on at all.
Neat right?
by using dark mode in applications that support it,
OLED can reduce power consumption
and reduce eye strain caused by blue light.
Anyway, the ability to control pixels individually comes
with a plethora of other benefits
with a brightness floor of only 0.005 nits.
There is a vast expanse of potential colors
that can be displayed that normally wouldn't be possible.
And with a great number of colors
comes a greater perceived contrast.
This is a phenomenon we've talked about before
and it's called the Helmholtz-Kohlrausch effect,
where colors like yellow and green appeared darker
than other colors like red and magenta.
You see our eyes treat saturation and hue
as though they're the same thing as brightness,
Silly eyes, That's not how light works
eyes more like lies.
Am I right?
Well, this effect becomes increasingly pronounced when
these colors are on a background that shares a similar level
of lightness, like this gray that you're looking at here.
Using a backlight causes blacks to increase
in lightness, changing them to more of a shade of gray.
This reduces contrast causing all colors
but especially yellow and green,
to appear dimmer by comparison.
This defect in our eyeballs or more realistically
in our brain's perception,
is being taken advantage of by this laptop.
It can actually appear brighter
without needing to be brighter
and dimmer screen equal more battery life,
battery life and laptop, good!
Good like colorful banana from LTTstore.com
and the obvious other benefit of more accurate
more rich color is in creative applications.
Like, look at this.
Here is the upcoming ChannelSuperFun where
Dennis attempts to hide in my house again
doing a lot of damage to my house.
Like, look at this.
What is logistics dragging up my driveway?
Here's a hint.
It's not a Valencia chair.
It's Dennis and Colton.
Whatever its capabilities are,
MSI is marketing the Raider GE67 HX as more
of a gaming machine than a creator machine.
So why don't we take a look at it over on the left.
We've got USB A, USB C, as well
as a headphone microphone combo jack, tons of cooling
more cooling at the back,
along with two and a half gig ethernet, Thunderbolt, HDMI,
and power in and over on the right,
We've got an SD card reader and two more USB type ports.
And there's this delightful little RGB underglow thing over
at the front.
It weighs just over five pounds.
That's 2.4 kilos if you're into that kind of thing.
So it's not a super lightweight laptop by any means
but it's not gonna be a complete back breaker to
carry around either.
When you consider the power
inside it it's downright reasonable.
There are a few different configurations of this model
but on top of our Intel core I7-12800HX
and 3070 TI laptop GPU.
In ours, we've got a one terabyte NDME gen four
by four with another fourth gen slot open for expansion,
16 gigs of DDR 5, 4800 mega transfer per second,
Ram wifi, 60 a 99.9 wat hour battery
which is the legal limit to carry onto a plane.
And as we mentioned before
the display is 15.6 inches with a resolution of 1440p.
And if you haven't been following
along it's OLED, freaking OLED, freaking finally!
Other configurations bump the graphics card
up to a 3080 or 3080 TI,
can include up to an I9-12900HX,
up to 32 gigs of Ram, and come with windows 11 pro instead
of home with prices starting at 2300 us dollars.
So you can check out the links to this guy down below.
Big thanks again to Samsung display
for showing us the future of laptop displays
and for sponsoring this video, if you wanna see more
why not check out our Neo G9 showcase.
It is very long and very curved
which is not something I knew I wanted.