Today Amazon has dropped the price of the 49" Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 gaming monitor to $1799.99, a hefty $400 price drop from its original $2200 MSRP. This is the lowest price we've ever seen and beats out the price we saw on Amazon Prime Day by $100. If you're looking for the best ultra-wide monitor that money can buy, there's no need to look elsewhere.
49" Samsung Odyssey OLED G9: The Best Ultra-Wide Gaming Monitor
The Odyssey OLED G9 replaces the Neo G9 as Samsung's latest and greatest flagship gaming monitor. The most noticeable upgrade from the Neo G9 is the quantum dot OLED panel. The previous gen Neo G9 utilized a Mini-LED panel, which was already a step above the IPS panels you'd find in most other high-end gaming monitors. OLEDs, however, blow away any other type of monitor in terms of HDR, black levels and color rendition. Samsung's QD OLED panel is even better. Quantum dot technology produces higher peak brightness levels compared to traditional OLED TVs without losing the color accuracy and range and wide viewing angles that OLEDs are known for.
Samsung's OLED G9 also offers plenty of other features you'd come to expect in a premium gaming monitor, like a blazing fast 0.3ms response time, 240Hz refresh rate, HDR True Black 400 certification (which, by the way, is a higher rating than even HDR1400), both HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort connections, and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro support (it's also NVIDIA G-Sync "compatible).
Although the OLED G9 isn't a true 4K monitor, it still has plenty of pixels packed into the 49" display. This is an ultra-wide monitor with the same resolution as two 27" monitors stacked next to each other. In fact, the horizontal pixel count (5,120 pixels) is actually greater than a traditional 4K monitor (3,840 pixels). That, combined with an 1800R curve, allows for maximum immersion during gaming.
Obviously the Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 isn't a monitor for everyone. You need a rather generous gaming budget if you want to add this to your rig. The cost keeps many us gamers at bay, but certainly the barrier to entry has been signficantly lowered with this deal today.
