Samsung’s pricey gaming monitor, the Odyssey OLED G9, is now available to buy and is out of its pre-order phase. Earlier this month, Samsung made the monitor available to pre-order, but didn’t mention an official launch date.
As it turns out, the launch date is today, June 26. As with the pre-orders, you can buy the Odyssey OLED G9 from Best Buy or directly from Samsung. If you can afford to buy it or even want to spend the money. At $2,199, the Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 is an expensive piece of tech to add to your gaming setup. But Samsung promises an unparalleled gaming experience with vivid visuals and a design to match.
The Odyssey OLED G9 is the “world’s first OLED gaming monitor” that you can buy
It may or may not matter to you that this is the world’s “first” OLED gaming monitor. What likely does matter to some though is that the monitor is OLED, big enough to capture all your game content, and it has the specs to provide a good experience.
At 49-inches with a Dual Quad High Definition resolution of 5,120 x 1,440, there’s a lot of screen real estate for whatever you’re playing. It also offers a 240Hz refresh rate to keep things standardized with the other Odyssey G9 monitors that Samsung sells. Though, you will probably need a pretty powerful PC to hit frame rates that high with such a big screen at that resolution.
We haven’t tested this thing ourselves, but we’d venture a guess that even without those peak frame rates, games probably look pretty good. You just need to have the desk space, and the cash reserves to work this thing into your own setup. The Odyssey OLED G9 will work with PC as well as consoles, though it’s probably not the best option for console gamers since they don’t support ultrawide aspect ratios.