Samsung LS49CG954SUXXU Odyssey Smart OLED 49″ Gaming Monitor
Samsung LS49CG954SUXXU Odyssey Smart OLED 49″ Gaming Monitor – 5120×1440, Speakers, HDMI 2.1, 0.03ms, 240Hz, Full Smart Platform
A new era of OLED gaming
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CoreSync & Core Lighting+Enhance your screen surroundings. With CoreSync technology, a game’s on-screen colors are projected into your real world to further immerse you into the setting. With new Core Lighting+, add amazing color to your setup for an instant vibe shift. | Elevated design sets a new standardSlim Metal Design Upgrade your gaming station with razor-sharp design. Featuring a premium and modern metal finish measuring at just 4.5mm at its thinnest, Odyssey OLED’s unmatched design will suit your stylish sense. | Auto Source Switch+With Auto Source Switch+, your monitor detects when connected devices are turned on and instantly switches to the new source signal. This helps you get to your game action faster without flipping through multiple input sources. | Awarded by expertsCES Innovation Awards – Honoree The Samsung Odyssey G95SC is the world’s first 32:9 aspect ratio OLED gaming monitor. Reviewed.com – Editors Choice “The Odyssey OLED G9 is close to gaming perfection as any monitor I’ve ever reviewed…” T3 – Platinum Award”…it offers one of the best and most immersive experiences around.” Stuff – 5 stars “…this is easily one of the best, most spec-packed monitors ever made.” |
| Weight: | 12.9 kg |
| Dimensions: | 23.6 x 119.4 x 52.9 cm; 12.9 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Samsung |
| Model: | LS49CG954SUXXU |
| Colour: | Silver |
| Batteries Included: | Yes |
| Manufacture: | Samsung |
| Dimensions: | 23.6 x 119.4 x 52.9 cm; 12.9 Kilograms |
Prons
1. Some may find 49″ useful due to the enormous amount of workspace where working in Adobe Premiere Pro might be very useful.
2. Samsung did a great job with spec and capabilities. The refresh rate and screen quality is just amazing.
Cons
1. Price.
2. 49″ screen due to the curvature takes awful lot of space, so that needs to be taken into account.
3. Due to the fact the stand also takes up too much desk space, you will find yourself buying a desk mount, ie. Ergotron. Other cheap knock offs (tried those) are not worth the effort. I had to bite the bullet and bought v.expensive Ergotron albeit worth every penny.
Hope this helps make the right choice. If you decide for two 27″ screens, go for the ones offering 144Hz and 1ms refresh rate at minimum.
This is cheaper and better than the competition, which is surprising since Samsung are usually nowhere near as cheap as its competition, but this monitor is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else that I could find similar to this.
It felt like a no-brainer, and right they were; this monitor is absolutely fantastic. The quality is blowing my mind still today, the speed is great, the way my games look … I can’t express how beautiful they are. GTA V with the graphics mod known as NVE (Natural Vision Evolved) looks out of this world on ultra settings. Microsoft Flight Simulator on ultra is beautiful, WoW even looks insane on this monitor.
Most importantly, however, I bought this monitor for sim-racing. It’s exactly what I needed for that, and ticks all of the boxes. I have no issue with motion, colour range, brightness / darkness or any of that stuff. The one thing this monitor scored quite low on was black uniformity but for me I’ve not noticed that it’s bad at all, perhaps I need to be a completely dark room to spot that; I usually have a lamp on.
I’m no expert when it comes to knowing what I’m on about with monitors which is why I let the experts provide the data and I made my decision based on that.
No regrets at all, it looks awesome (front and back) and has completely changed how I race and how I write code.
Setting up was fun (not) but i have it working how i want it to,
out of the box the monitor was dull i had to go into settings adjust the input in my case display port, then pick to the picture mode i wanted sRGB i disabled active-sync, then adjusted the Brightness. this worked for me it may not for you.
I found the best way of getting the monitor out of the box was to put the stand and arm together then attach it to the monitor and lift it out of the box then place on my desk.
Ok so far i’m happy i will update in one month.
Thank you for your time.
Up date it’s now 06/02/2023 the monitor is great no problems no pops or crackling. I’m vary happy with my monitor, I will up date if anything happens goos or bad.
Many faults HDR darkens the screen so you cannot use it, full 5210 x 1440 works @ 60Hz. Screen can also start flicker turn dark and lock up. These are just 3 of many faults with the Samsung G9 many more become apparent when you do some research on the internet PC forums. The price is way too high for a monitor with so many issues. I was looking for a good experience but sadly did not find it so returned after 24 hours.
Please do your research before buying this particular monitor although other Samsung monitors I have owned have been quite satisfactory.
This screen is amazing. Mostly for office usage IMHO. The issue with games and even movies is that there simply isn’t a lot of them that can run on the maximum resolution. I have one pixel that turns green when I enable HDR, but I don’t even notice it with all the screen space available. Would buy again if I had to do this over.
Ok, you can use 3 inputs and split two in the same time , however is not automated and you have manually each time to unsplit then activate two of them and good luck remembering what input is what.
Total idiotic thing to create such of setup behavior.
I wanted to use two sources from a laptop as split screen and the third as one full screen with other PC.
It was a nightmare to try to do what I wrote before and then ended up in removing one source and the split screen .
If they only had a simple idea to make some profiles that you can only switch/rotate from a dedicated button, but I guess for that you need to brain.
What else. The 240 is a gimmick cause even if you try to install the monitor driver and your card can output that is still based on particular settings that you can chose. I will need to stick to the 120.
Also the amount of time spent to actually calibrate it on some acceptable nuances was way longer than should be.
Overall the eyes are getting tired faster that using a 34 inch so probably I should tried a 38.
I do regret getting it.
The monitor is still plagued with issues from it’s rocky launch, my screen has the common issue where certain colours being displayed on the screen can cause the entire screen to go in to this weird greyed out ‘pixelated’ mode – mine appears to not be as bad as others as I’ve been sent videos which cause other G9’s to bug out on but mine doesn’t – it’s still not acceptable for the price.
I also occasionally have Windows Sleep issues where the monitor does not awake – if you get this hold Ctrl+Shift+Win and press B, it should come back (the key combo resets your GPU drivers, thank me later), again not acceptable for the price.
There’s other issues too, NVIDIA Linux drivers do not support DSC (compression), so at full resolution you can’t have full refresh rate, it’s one or the other.
Now that the negatives are out of the way, the positives are also great – the monitor looks fantastic in both HDR (really good) and SDR (still great), the responsiveness is very snappy and always feels fluid, and the physical build quality of the monitor itself also feels great (though it’s hefty!).
As a final note for PS5 users – don’t get this monitor just for it. If you do have a PS5 and a PC though, you need an EDID adapter to run the monitor at 120Hz and 1080p (you still can’t have 1440p), doesn’t seem to be needed on Xbox.
Would have been nice if it was right model, it was older model mk1
look like amazon warehouse dont check items as this was older model in wrong box
it you had it in split screen mode it would not always work, bit pain if want two 27″ screens.
sometime could not select 10bit, had to flick through 60/ 144/ 240hz to get working
also sometime flicker as screen image image would glitch which i read on the internet reviews with old model
picture was nice even tho it had only 10 dimming zones, there was bit of a glow on edges
and some do clip in the ultra wide so huds are off the screen but if ran in 27″ 34″ mode seems ok in these mode but no gsync if in split screen mode
was running 2080 super get 50fps in the ultra wide 5000 res
also some stuck pixels
the monitor when attached to the stand did not seem very stable, when the desk was knocked the monitor wobbled quite a fair amou
Expensive but has made a huge diference to my work flow.