Just days after LG announced its CES 2025 line of monitors, Samsung is doing the same. The company has just introduced several new models and perhaps the most impressive of them is the Odyssey OLED G81SF. It is a 27-inch 4K monitor with a maximum refresh rate of 240Hz, a response time of 0.03ms, a glare-free display, and backlighting with 52 color options. Samsung also includes a number of burn-in protection measures to ensure the Odyssey G81SF's display looks pristine for years to come. The G8 is likely to use Samsung Display's latest and greatest OLED panel.
Next up is the Odyssey OLED G60SF, also a 27-inch OLED monitor, with a QHD resolution and an impressive 500Hz refresh rate that Samsung says “effectively eliminates lag and motion blur for ultra-smooth gaming during critical moments”.
In 2025, Samsung will also finally launch the Odyssey 3D monitor that it first showed off at CES for at least the year. It allows you to experience 3D images. without any special glasses using a lenticular lens on the front panel. “Eye tracking monitors the movement of both eyes using a built-in stereo camera, while visual mapping continuously adjusts the image to improve depth perception,” Samsung said in its press release. The Odyssey 3D only comes in a 27-inch 4K size; The larger 37-inch screen mentioned last year has apparently been scrapped. The company says it offers “a fast gray-to-gray response time of 1 ms and a refresh rate of 165 Hz.”
That's it for the gaming-focused monitors, but Samsung is also announcing two others that are more focused on everyday productivity. The SmartMonitor series finally goes OLED with the new Smart Monitor M9. And this year, Samsung is adding a ton of ai capabilities, including ai Picture Optimizer. Just like on your TVs, this feature “analyzes input signals to determine the type of content being viewed, such as games, videos, or productivity apps, and automatically adjusts display settings for the best viewing experience.” . This also works for games and can detect the genre of what you are playing.
ai Upscaling Pro can make low-resolution content look sharper with the M9's 4K resolution, and the monitor has a maximum refresh rate of 165Hz. That's a significant improvement over the M8, which maxed out at 60 Hz. Samsung says moving to OLED also enables a new “ultra-thin” design for the M9 Smart Monitor that should take up considerably less desk space.
The latest monitor announced (at least for today) is the only model in the group that is not OLED. The new 37-inch ViewFinity S8 has a 16:9 aspect ratio, a built-in KVM switch, 90W USB-C pass-through charging, and covers 99 percent of the sRGB color gamut. The maximum brightness of this 4K display maxes out at 350 nits, which should be perfectly adequate for anything you do on a desktop.
Prices and release dates are yet to come, but The edge It will be in Las Vegas for CES 2025 in a matter of days. So you won't have to wait much longer to see first-hand impressions of the new Samsung monitors.
