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Samsung Odyssey G80SD review (Patreon)

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2024-08-14 13:37:41
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Samsung's new 32" QD-OLED monitor with 4K 240Hz, an added matte anti-glare coating, and a range of Smart TV functions and extras

A few review updates

Thanks to reader feedback we have made a few updates to the review.

  • 1. It was pointed out to us that the ECO and Standard preset modes allow the screen to remember different settings for SDR and HDR. This is a massive improvement over our previous experience where you had to switch between different modes. This also overcomes the bug where peak brightness in HDR was not being remembered. We have no idea why this doesn't work for the other preset modes like Custom 1 and the game modes, but our recommendation is to stick with ECO mode and configure SDR and HDR from there. it makes everything a lot easier. We've updated the HDR section of the review to account for this.

  • 2. we've added a pinned comment to our best settings video to reflect this change too. You can still follow all the rest of the guidance, you just don't need to worry about configuring two different preset modes and switching between them any more :)

  • 3. we also updated the calibration section of the review, calibrating the screen in ECO mode as well which oddly produced better colour accuracy results than we had obtained in custom 1 mode. Also a good improvement. Newer ICC profile now uploaded here.

  • 4. We have added clarification in the review that the screen does support HDMI ARC sound output as well as Bluetooth audio connections. that makes life easier for external devices and games consoles, although still a bit odd that a headphone jack was omitted.

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Comments

HOkay

Oh boy, currently got a 10% off offer running on Samsung UK website which brings it down to £989.10. It's pretty tempting at under £1k! I couldn't see any mention of whether it's VESA mountable in the review so I just need to check that out.

HOkay
>>146559667

Oh damn, another £100 off for trading in literally any monitor by the looks! Oh boy. You don't know off hand if it's VESA mountable do you?

HOkay

Minor typos: "on that note you can’t’ even get" "Samsung have made is easy to switch" "provide a range of measured to help"

TFTCentral
>>146559667

their website lists 100mm x 100mm wall mount in the specs and there are relevant holes on the back if you remove the stand :)

TFTCentral
>>146569927

thanks. corrected although the first one was fine: "Oh, and on that note you can’t’ even get to the preset modes within the 'Game mode' operation from the main OSD"

HOkay
>>146559667

Thank you! I found it's another 5% off if you buy with the crappy Samsung app & use another code, so it's £854.14 now, & yet I'm still hesitant 😬

HOkay
>>146569927

Ha, no worries! It was an incredibly small one that one! I'm also well behind today, only one child up & we should have left 25 minutes ago. Oh well!

TFTCentral
>>146559667

haha, discount on top of discount! That's a really good price for an OLED in the UK, I'd snap that up i think :)

TFTCentral
>>146569927

haha, one of those days. I woke up to a load of clarifications and corrections I needed to do on this review. A drawback of the screen being so complicated and with a lot of oddities. back to reviewing another screen now :)

HOkay
>>146569927

Nothing deal-breaking for this one I hope! Have a good day, I'll continue to wrestle with children & eventually rock up to work at some point

dude

Thank you for your work :) With so many modes and colorspace choices it makes it really hard to find the best combination for the best gamut coverage and volume. Are you considering a test of the g60sd ?

TFTCentral
>>146608458

Stick with native colour space for the widest gamut if that’s what you’re after. You may want to consider using auto mode in SDR for clamping back close to sRGB if accuracy is a focus there No plans for the G60SD I’m afraid

Tomáš Sánik

Hey, did you try "Automatically manage color for apps" settings in windows 11? It works on this monitor. You can use native color gamut in SDR with this settings enabled and there is no oversaturation I think.

TFTCentral
>>146703895

No I didn’t try that. Will look in to it as a potential way to clamp colour space from software side of things (you can do similar with AMD cards), although not everyone has windows 11 we should keep in mind

HOkay
>>146559667

Well, I hesitated too long & it went out of stock so that made my decision for me...until it came came back in stock yesterday...& for who knows what reason it was £10 cheaper again! In case anyone else in the UK cares, it was £844.55 in the end, with a very crappy 20" VGA-only old monitor I still had lying around as a £100 trade in, on top of the current 10% discount + a 5% discount for using their crappy app.

David Schmelzer

I dont know if im just going crazy but my greys have a lil yellow tint or something in it, anyone knows how to fix it? :'D

Tomáš Sánik

Hey again, did you test HDR Colour accuracy with Auto or Native colour space? How do they compare in terms of accuracy? On Samsung TVs you need to use Auto to get accurate colours. To my eyes this is the case on this monitor as well.

Whicker

The new 1004 update fixed the bugged "normal" color space. Any improvement with color accuracy in this color space?

Bozodragon

Hi guys, Love the work you do :) I've just taken the plunge with a G95SD, the G9 update with the gen 3 panel. In your experience, do the panels perform more similarly by generation or by model? The refresh really doesn't have a lot to recommend it to reviewers so I don't expect you will be doing one specific to the model. As such, I am trying to determine whether I would be better off using the ICC profile for the G80SD which shares the same generation of panel, or the G95SC, the predecessor to this unit. I justified the price tag partially due to the wide gamut as I do a wide range of creative work, and the idea of one monitor to replace two was the main driver, but I'm not terribly impressed by the colour accuracy out of the box. I will play around in the mean time to see what looks best to my eye, but would appreciate an expert opinion on it!

TFTCentral
>>156838140

Hi Bozodragon. The G95SD actually uses the same gen 2 49" QD-OLED panel as the G95SC. Samsung didn't release a newer gen 3 panel in 2024 in that size. Their only gen 3 panels were the 27" and 32" panels. So that makes it more similar to the G95SC and I would expect the setup to be very similar between that older model and this newer model, where they've added their own matte AG coating to the panel. Whether or not the calibrated ICC profile from our G95SC review will help or not is questionable, but it's worth a try to see how it is.