As part of its CES 2022 catalog, Samsung has announced the first gamign monitor capable of displaying images at 240Hz at 4K. This makes it a very forward-looking monitor, since for now there are no GPUs that can move 4K games at 240 frames per second.
The curved gaming monitor, dubbed the Odyssey Neo G8, will arrive sometime in 2022 and is packed with next-gen features. It is a 32 ″ curved panel, with a 1000R curvature that equates to an enveloping effect. His 4K resolution It has a size of 3.840 x 2.160, a refresh rate of 240Hz, a response time from gray to gray (GtG) of 1ms, and Samsung Mini LEDs for a maximum brightness of 2.000 nits,
A forward-looking 4K gaming monitor
This Samsung monitor will also be compatible with Nvidia G-Sync and FreeSync Premium Pro for AMD cards. Since for now there is no connector that can handle 240Hz at 4K resolution, but HDMI 2.1 can merge two display streams through the VESA standard called Display Stream Compression (DSC), effectively enabling the ultra-high refresh rate through of two independent connections. An image would be generated at 240 frames per second, but they would be interleaved and real quality could be lost as it is not a true native 240 Hz.
DisplayPort 2.0 could have handled this scenario as well, as it supports uncompressed 4K 240Hz, but that standard is still missing despite being approved over a year ago. Products with this new connector could arrive in the second half of 2022.
This monitor has neither a release date nor a price. It all seems for now a proof of concept as much of the technology that is being taught at CES 2022. The existence of this monitor could encourage Intel, NVIDIA and AMD to develop graphics cards that allow these frame rates at 4K resolution, although it would be within a few generations and limited to the most premium.
