- Samsung didn't have final packaging ready for our
sponsored unboxing of the Odyssey G7 monitor,
so they sent us something even better.
A flipping crate.
Let's get this puppy open and have a look
at the little brother to what is arguably
the god of current gaming monitors, the Odyssey G9.
(loud clang)
Inside then we've got a nice sturdy base.
A height adjustable stand, so on top
of the basic adjustments like tilt it's got
a little bit of swivel built in there.
It can also pivot.
Goes up and down.
This is nice.
Nice little cable management doodad-a-ma-jiggy right there.
We've got DisplayPort, power brick,
USB 3, and the power cord and.
Big reveal.
The new G7, even though it shares the same name
as the old G7, is a very different beast.
Instead of being a 1440p curved panel,
it's actually a 4K flat panel this time around.
Boop!
And that goes on a little something like that.
And these are nice captive screws,
so you never have to worry about losing them.
And since we're back here, it's a perfect time
to talk about a couple of other features.
So we just take this plastic trim piece,
clip it together, and clip it on.
And you can see that under it is actually an RGB ring.
This has a feature that Samsung calls CoreSync
which allows the LED lights at the back
to synchronize with the content
that's being displayed on the screen.
So there's technologies that exist
that do this already, but many of them are third party.
Now it's built right into the monitor.
The other big one is HDMI 2.1.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
We've got not just DisplayPort here, but also HDMI 2.1,
so that means a maximum of 4K 120 hertz.
Meaning that this could be a perfect pair
for both a gaming PC and a console if you were
in say a dorm room or something like that
and you had limited space for a secondary TV.
Oh, well no, that's about it.
We're set up.
All we gotta do now is plug it into power
and then connect our gaming PC.
Oh, hey that's fun.
We need a worthy gaming computer
if we're gonna be at 4K 144 hertz.
Oh yeah, did I mention that?
On DisplayPort it can go up to 4K 144 hertz.
So I'll be interested to see if they're
using display stream compression to get us 4:4:4 color,
or if we're gonna have to resort
to chroma subsampling in order to do that.
The display should intelligently switch
between inputs, but DisplayPort, particularly when
you first attach it, is notoriously finicky,
so it wouldn't surprise me if we had to give
the system a quick reset before it grabs it.
Let's see if it picked up that 144 by default.
I see 120 is definitely...
Yup!
There it is!
4K, 144 hertz, absolutely no configuration
and we're running at eight bit color,
RGB, full dynamic range.
Perfect.
This is an HDR 400 monitor, so for any games
or videos that support HDR you will be able
to accept an HDR signal, though it should be noted
that for the best HDR experience you will prefer
something more like the Odyssey G9
which can handle, if I recall correctly
Samsung rates it at 2,000 nits peak
brightness compared to 400 on this one.
Another thing we can confirm in the Nvidia
control panel is support for G-Sync.
This is a G-Sync compatible monitor.
It's also FreeSync Premium Pro certified.
So what that means is if you don't happen
to have the absolute latest and greatest
graphics card that can push 4K 144 frames per second,
when your FPS does dip the display
will dynamically adjust its refresh rate depending
on the FPS that your machine is putting out
which helps to smooth animations
and reduce tearing and stutter.
This is an IPS type panel which means
that whether you're looking at it from
a fairly extreme angle like I am
so that you guys can see the front as well,
or even up or down, it's gonna
look pretty flipping fantastic.
Oh boy, come on.
You can do it.
- [David] Look at that frame rate.
- Pow pow pow, oh no.
What we're looking at right now
is not the performance of the game.
CS:GO even at 4K is gonna
run well on a card like this.
But what we want to see is as we're panning
the camera around, how crisp does the image stay?
If there's text on this wall for example
as we pan back and forth, can we still read it?
Wow.
Yes.
This is definitely faster than the TN panels of old
in terms of the pixel response times.
So you get very little if any smearing
as you're moving around and as objects
are moving across the screen.
You'll particularly notice that sort of thing
with a really dark object on a light background
for example, but you can see here there's almost
nothing in terms of smearing or ghosting behind it.
Like these right here in particular, we should see
discoloration behind them, but it's not there.
Not to the eye anyway.
A camera with a proper pursuit setup
is going to be able to see it.
To be clear, I'm not setting up
a pursuit camera setup right now.
It's just something I've looked at
a lot of times over the years.
This is very very solid.
And this, my friends, is a perfect example
of where technology like G-Sync
and FreeSync comes into play.
So you'll see, we'll go up as high as
120, 144 FPS, so we're really taking advantage
of that full refresh rate of the monitor,
but we'll also dip down as low as.
95?
Yeah, there we go.
We're right around 90 frames per second in this area.
Man that's smooth.
I love that a G-Sync is no longer
an extra 150 bucks or whatever
to get it built into your monitor.
Just being able to take a FreeSync Premium Pro
panel like this one and run G-Sync or FreeSync on it.
Not being bound to whatever
graphics card vendor I've locked into.
Much better experience for the end user.
That would be really cool if the feature
was just built into the monitor.
"Correlating.
"Turn the LED lighting at the front and back
"of your product on or off."
Oh okay, no.
Display effect.
Rainbow flash, double flash, breathing.
Looking good.
And actually, no, I think it might be here.
We just gotta change it to static and go to CoreSync on.
Oh cool!
Well that's an advantage.
Not having to have it run unlike software on your machine.
So let's see, I just have a full
white display on right now.
So that makes sense.
So let's fire up Doom Eternal.
Okay!
That's pretty cool.
So when it turned green,
I'll show you what I was looking at.
These, so seems like it grabs
the brightest part of the scene as opposed
to the overwhelming color of the scene.
Which is a novel way of doing that.
I would expect right now it would be more of a white.
Yup.
So it has a bluey-white 'cause when
the whole screen was white it was this color.
Oh shoot, this plate part came disconnected again.
- [Andy] There's RGB lighting.
- Oh, I didn't even notice that!
What?
Oh that's cool.
Going flat on the 28 inches was definitely
the right move for Samsung.
A curve on a big display makes a ton
of sense and increases immersion.
But on a smaller one like this.
Not that 28 inches is "small" but it's definitely
smaller than the G9 at 49 inches.
On a smaller one like this I think flat makes more sense.
Some people prefer it.
And thankfully for them there are
curved options out there, but for me personally
flat at this size makes a little bit more sense.
No, I'm not gonna die.
You just watch.
(Andy and David laugh)
Well that's fine.
This is as good a time as any to switch over to the Xbox.
We're just gonna turn on the Xbox and we
should get prompted to switch our input.
Let's fire up the Xbox.
There we go.
- [Andy] Aye!
- On the right display it is downright gorgeous.
- [David] Wow!
- Shut up!
Now I'm gonna crash just to spite you guys.
(crew oohs)
And that's pretty much it for the G7.
The big features again then are its
4K 144 hertz without any chroma subsampling,
support for G-Sync and FreeSync so so matter
what flavor of graphics card you want
to hook up to it, you are freakin' good to go.
And of course their CoreSync functionality
which synchronizes the lighting at the back
of the monitor so that it'll shine off the wall
with what's being displayed on the screen.
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