Samsung to release 21:9 34" 100hz HDR Freesync monitor *UPDATE*

[Notional]

Samsung to release their ultrawide 34" HDR Freesync monitor later this year.

 

So Samsung has just released a youtube video, showing off their 34" ultrawide HDR monitor due later this year. We first heard about this monitor in December last year, but very little information has been given about it. Samsung however has released a video showing off their 2016 models, including this very interesting monitor.

 

So let's start off with specifications of the Samsung CF791:

• 34" 21:9 size/aspect ratio
• 1500mm radius curve
• 3440x1440 resolution
• Contrast: 3000:1
• 4ms VA panel
• 100hz
• Quantum Dot technology used in Samsung's tv's to create HDR support
• Adaptive Sync/AMD Freesync support (max 100hz, min hz not published, but hopefully under 50hz so it can utilize Low Framerate Compensation)
• DisplayPort, and HDMI both support Freesync

 

Samsung's Quantum Dot in their 2015 tv's provided a colour gamut within DCI P3, but not quite Rec.2020. So what colour space/gamut this particular panel supports is unknown. It should surpass the standard Rec.709 though. It claims 125% sRGB gamut, but sRGB is not an impressive colour gamut. Hopefully this is the same version of Quantum Dots used in their 2016 models though.

 

Watch the presentation here, and to view the monitor.

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My thoughts:

 

I'm personally a huge fan of curved ultrawide monitors. Both curved and ultrawide sucks for tv's, but for a monitor it makes sense: you sit in the sweet spot, the ultrawide gives amazing gaming experiences, as well as a workstation setup similar to a dual monitor setup. Because the screen is so wide, a curve makes the monitor more natural to look at.

 

So far pretty much only the Acer XR341CK (and the updated XR342CK) has been useful ultrawide monitors with freesync. LG's have supported it too, but with such a small variable refresh window like 55-75hz. As long as this Samsung monitor will provide a min refresh under 50hz, the experience should be superb. Why 50hz? Because at 50hz and below, AMD's Low Framerate Compensation kicks in. It works similarly to a Gsync module, by doubling the frames to work at below the panels refresh rate. So say your fps is 32hz, when LFC will simply show the same frame twice, making the monitor run at 64hz. I don't know if LFC can do triple frames though.

 

This will also be the first ultrawide monitor to feature HDR, which is basically a wider colour gamut + higher contrast + higher bitrate. So I assume this will be a 10bit panel with either a very high light emission and/or a very low black hue. Rec.2020 is apparently the holy grail and might not be possible until we see HDR OLED's or outright Quantum Dots OLED's. Until then this will do.

 

So is this the perfect monitor? Well damn near it is. OLED + Rec.2020 would have made it better, but no such thing exists yet. LG's LM340UW3 panel, which is a 34" 3440x1440 144hz panel, won't be out until 2017 with monitors hitting the stores a year from now the earliest. Whether that will have any type of HDR is uncertain, but hopefully CES 2017 will be flooded with HDR monitors.

 

Question is how this VA panel will fair against an IPS panel?

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UPDATE:

 

Samsung has released official stats, and it is not impressive at all. The monitor is NOT HDR, due to too low brightness (nits), as well as a pathetically low 8 bit colour processing. That's correct, this monitor can only do the standard 16,7 million colours. HDR requires 12/14 bits of colour, but 10 bits would be a bare minimum. How Samsung is supposed to show the wider gamut of colour using the existing 8 bit colours is beyond me. This entire monitor sounds like a gimmick more than a useful monitor for anything at this point. I am sorely disappointed.

 

The monitor is out the 25th of November in the US. No announced date for anywhere else.

 

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Source:

https://youtu.be/8SYeb2zQ6fI

Update source: http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/curved/34--cf791-wqhd-monitor-lc34f791wqnxza/

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

I went to best buy the other day and the 82" Quantum Dot TV was $10,000

 

Not sure if I can afford this but ok lol

[Notional]

2 minutes ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

I went to best buy the other day and the 82" Quantum Dot TV was $10,000

 

Not sure if I can afford this but ok lol

Well it's 82", what did you expect?

 

I'm tired of 1000+$ ultrawides. Hopefully this can change things up. After all, all other ultrawide gaming monitors are LG based, so they have to pay whatever LG wants. Now we might finally get some real competition. Samsungs last ultrawide 34" was not particularly cheap either, but still.

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

2 minutes ago, Notional said:

Well it's 82", what did you expect?

 

I'm tired of 1000+$ ultrawides. Hopefully this can change things up. After all, all other ultrawide gaming monitors are LG based, so they have to pay whatever LG wants. Now we might finally get some real competition. Samsungs last ultrawide 34" was not particularly cheap either, but still.

*cough cough* acer predetor x34 *cough cough*

 

There aren't too many companies that make ultra wide..

Lemme list them all and tell me if I missed one 

 

Asus

Dell

Acer

Samsung

LG

 

[Notional]

3 minutes ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

*cough cough* acer predetor x34 *cough cough*

 

There aren't too many companies that make ultra wide..

Lemme list them all and tell me if I missed one 

 

Asus

Dell

Acer

Samsung

LG

 

All of those except Samsung, uses the same LG IPS panel though.

[Doobeedoo]

Hmm not fan of ultra-wide and curved monitors so nothing special to me though. But HDR does pose interest.

Though that Dell 4K OLED 120Hz pokes my interest way more  

But yeah those kind of monitors will be quite expensive for some time. I'm curious to see how much 1080p@240hz will cost.

[patrickjp93]

Oh come on! This late in the game and it's only 1440p ultra wide?! Where are the 2160s?! We even have DP 1.3 that can drive it at 85 Hz!

[awesomeness10120]

1 minute ago, patrickjp93 said:

Oh come on! This late in the game and it's only 1440p ultra wide?! Where are the 2160s?!

 

[SurvivorNVL]

5 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

Oh come on! This late in the game and it's only 1440p ultra wide?! Where are the 2160s?! We even have DP 1.3 that can drive it at 85 Hz!

I am still personally wanting a 3840x2400 or 5120x2160(technically 4K UW).

[PlayStation 2]

9 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

Oh come on! This late in the game and it's only 1440p ultra wide?! Where are the 2160s?! We even have DP 1.3 that can drive it at 85 Hz!

Personally I wanna go backwards and get a 144hz 1360x768 monitor.

[patrickjp93]

2 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Personally I wanna go backwards and get a 144hz 1360x768 monitor.

You can get 165Hz 1080p, so why?

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, patrickjp93 said:

You can get 165Hz 1080p, so why?

Personal preference. I'm already used to my TV so eh.

[Belgarathian]

That's amazing... Betting $1000+ USD launch. 
 

Would still buy it though if I was Team Red at the moment. 

[ddrkreature]

25 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

Though that Dell 4K OLED 120Hz pokes my interest way more  

But yeah those kind of monitors will be quite expensive for some time. I'm curious to see how much 1080p@240hz will cost.

Sony's PlayStation 3D monitor. 1080p, 240hz.

 

List price is $500. Refurbed is 110 usd

[WereCat]

1 hour ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

*cough cough* acer predetor x34 *cough cough*

 

There aren't too many companies that make ultra wide..

Lemme list them all and tell me if I missed one 

 

Asus

Dell

Acer

Samsung

LG

 

And AOC has also new ultrawide baby coming out.

[DocSwag]

All I want is a nice Vega GPU paired with a curved 3440x1440 freesync 144hz monitor. A curved 3440x1440 freesync 100 he monitor with HDR would be nice too.

1 hour ago, patrickjp93 said:

Oh come on! This late in the game and it's only 1440p ultra wide?! Where are the 2160s?! We even have DP 1.3 that can drive it at 85 Hz!

Who knows where those are.... I personally don't need the extra ppi but I'm sure some people would rather have the higher resolution.

 

To be fair though, it is 1440p ultrawide with 100 hertz refresh rate and HDR. I don't think that's been seen before.

[patrickjp93]

15 minutes ago, Arokhantos said:

 

When 4k runs smooth with any modern game 60 fps minimum and 8k gaming starts to become a thing.

It does if you abandon AA.

 

5 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

All I want is a nice Vega GPU paired with a curved 3440x1440 freesync 144hz monitor. A curved 3440x1440 freesync 100 he monitor with HDR would be nice too.

Who knows where those are.... I personally don't need the extra ppi but I'm sure some people would rather have the higher resolution.

 

To be fair though, it is 1440p ultrawide with 100 hertz refresh rate and HDR. I don't think that's been seen before.

Uh, Acer Predator anyone?

[DocSwag]

1 hour ago, patrickjp93 said:

It does if you abandon AA.

 

Uh, Acer Predator anyone?

I don't believe the x34 had HDR though. Correct me if wrong.

[vanished]

2 hours ago, awesomeness10120 said:

 

"but it is resolution is too low"?  

/s I have to think about it sometimes too or I'd mess it up a lot...

Spoiler

 

[MoonSpot]

Nice.  They're including freesync almost as a standard loadout, and why not after all?  I think 2 of the monitors they showcased didn't include it.  It'll be interesting to see what the prices are going to be like. 

I for one did not like the "gamer" TN monitor.  From what few shots they showed with a game running it looked like garbage because the...pixel grid (?) was way too obvious.  I wouldn't use it if it was given to me.  IPS or get out.

[rattacko123]

I want a 120hz hdr 1440p 16:9 oled freesync display, that would be the perfect display for me.

[ThreePinkApples]

Oh hello there Mr. Monitor, I've been expecting you c:

 

(Although, if the lower limit of Freesync on this one isn't 35 or lower, then I'll have to let it go :c )

[Notional]

10 hours ago, patrickjp93 said:

Oh come on! This late in the game and it's only 1440p ultra wide?! Where are the 2160s?! We even have DP 1.3 that can drive it at 85 Hz!

Acer is launching a Freesync monitor that's 37.5" 3840x1600 resolution:

 

 

[Notional]

5 hours ago, aerandir92 said:

Oh hello there Mr. Monitor, I've been expecting you c:

 

(Although, if the lower limit of Freesync on this one isn't 35 or lower, then I'll have to let it go :c )

Don't worry as long as it's 45-50hz min. you're good. Due to LFC, freesync will work down to like 10hz, which is already way past what's usable in gaming anyways. If you wanna get nerdy, you can read how LFC works like Gsync here:

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Radeon-Software-Crimson-Improves-FreeSync-and-Frame-Pacing-Support

[patrickjp93]

30 minutes ago, Notional said:

Acer is launching a Freesync monitor that's 37.5" 3840x1600 resolution:

-snip-

Not exactly 21:10, but better than 21:9!

 

No tilt or pivot and no VESA mount?! Damnit Acer!