Samsung's Wild New Odyssey Lineup Includes A 1,100Hz Gaming Monitor
Samsung has unveiled a new lineup of Odyssey gaming monitors at Gamescom, including a 1,100Hz display. These high-end monitors feature advanced refresh rates and OLED technology aimed at professional esports players.
Why it matters
The release marks a significant technical milestone in display hardware, pushing the boundaries of human visual perception in gaming.
Also shown off was the 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9.
Samsung Samsung has been showing off a quartet of gaming monitors at Gamescom, and they're equipped with frankly ridiculous technology that we puny humans are arguably not even capable of truly appreciating. But hey, they sure are fun to write about.
There's glorious overkill wherever you look with this lot, but let's start with the 27-inch Odyssey G6, which Samsung has proudly dubbed the world's first 1,100Hz gaming monitor. The final refresh rate makes the finished G6 (somewhat hilariously) an extra 60Hz smoother than the 1,040Hz prototype Samsung unveiled ahead of CES last year. In either case, we are firmly in the territory of talking about refresh rates that are way beyond what the human eye is even able to perceive, but this monitor is clearly intended for the most hardcore esports edge cases only.
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