Perhaps the best Black Friday deal on a high-end gaming monitor has arrived. Amazon is offering the massive 57″ Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 Dual 4K UHD gaming monitor at the exclusive price of $1399.99. That’s $200 less than everyone else’s gaming monitor Black Friday deal and nearly 50% off the retail price. Keep in mind that there is no other monitor to compare it with. If you’re looking for the biggest and sharpest super ultra-wide gaming monitor on the planet, this would be it right here.
57″ Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 Dual 4K Monitor for $1399.99
The 57″ Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 is the first 57″ Dual 4K UHD monitor on the market, boasting an eye-watering 7680×2160 resolution, or the equivalent of two 4K UHD monitors stacked next to each other. Despite the display being so large, you’re treated to a pixel density of 140ppi. To put that into perspective, it’s as sharp as a 32″ 4K monitor. Wow.
The Odyssey Neo G9 is equipped with a Mini LED backlight paired with a quantum dot (QLED) panel. Like its namesake suggests, mini-LED panels have smaller LEDs than traditional LED LCD monitors, so you can squeeze in more lighting zones. Mini-LED monitors are also much brighter than OLED monitors, which is very important because larger monitors are generally dimmer than smaller ones to start. Local dimming combined with higher brightness improves contrast ratio and HDR and is also useful in overpowering glare and reflections.
What’s good about “Mini LED”, “QLED”, and “Local Dimming”?
The QLED panel enables this TV to retain strong color accuracy and good dynamic range even at peak brightness levels. The local dimming feature allows different zones to dim or brighten independent of each other, thus allowing the TV to deftly handle scenes where the brightest whites and the darkest blacks occur simultaneously. Mini LED panels allow for even more precising local dimming because the controller zones are smaller and more numerous. The Neo G9 has 2,048 zones.
The Samsung Neo G9 isn’t a one trick pony, and all the other specs live up to what we’d expect from a top-end gaming monitor. The display boasts an aggressive 1000R curve that practically hugs you as you play games. Curved panels are useless with small monitors but extremely helpful with super-wide ones. It also features a 1ms response time and 240Hz refresh rate. It is HDR1000 certified, which means that it can maintain peak brightness up to 1,000nits. It’s explicitly FreeSync Premium Pro certified (although it will probably also work in G-Sync compatibility mode).
Obviously the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 isn’t a monitor for everyone. You need a rather generous gaming budget. Also, not all games support this resolution and aspect ratio. Some games will have letterboxing to compensate. Finally, gaming at dual 4K UHD resolution is extremely GPU intensive. Make sure you have a good graphics card that can handle the load. We’d recommend something no less powerful than an RTX 4070 Ti.
Looking For More Black Friday Gaming Monitor Deals?’
Take advantage of some fantastic Black Friday pricing on the best gaming monitors, from high-end monitors with OLED panels, 240Hz refresh rate, and 4K resolution to perfectly capable 1080p 144Hz gaming monitors that fall well within the tightest of budgets. Whether you’re intending to use the monitor for your gaming PC or PlayStation 5 console, there’s definitely a perfect monitor for everyone.
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Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn’t hunting for deals for other people at work, he’s hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
