That £1299 price certainly seems high, but you are getting loads of tech for your money – and, remarkably, if you spend this much on alternative 4K displays you’ll get panels with poorer refresh rates. The menu is well-organised, colourful and responsive, so it’s easy to adjust different options – even if the navigation D-Pad is consistently irritating.
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Boot it up and you’ll see a row of vital information for gamers, like the refresh rate and response time settings, and loads of the key gaming toggles are immediately visible.īeyond that, you’ll find in-depth options to tweak colour and contrast settings, adjust the RGB LEDs and update the firmware. It’s a shame that the Samsung Odyssey Neo G8’s joystick is annoying and fiddly, because Samsung’s on-screen menu is excellent. Combine that with the top-notch image quality and high resolution and you’ve got a world-class gaming experience. The 240Hz refresh rate is ample for anyone except the most demanding esports gamers, and on this panel the animation is sharp and smooth. Switch over to HDR, and you’ll get more in every respect alongside the sort of backlight nuance that you just don’t usually see from gaming monitors. If you want to play games in SDR mode, you’ll get accurate colours, incredible depths and lashings of punch and vibrancy. Those are lots of numbers, but they have some straightforward ramifications. The panel’s delta E of 2.41 is good and means accurate colours, and the Samsung did a great job with rendering every part of the sRGB colour gamut and almost all of the DCI-P3 colour space, which is used for HDR content.
Switch over to HDR mode and the panel’s brightness ramps up to beyond 1400 nits and its contrast soared beyond 70,550:1. Those Quantum Mini LEDs deliver incredible black points and a contrast ratio of 9,600:1 – far beyond anything a normal IPS or VA screen can manage. The Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 lives up to its enormous potential.
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