Customer Ratings & Reviews

This monitor is packed with features and is gorgeous to look at. It is not quite perfect, however. First of all, as a gaming monitor which is of course the primary function and intent, it is phenomenal. Color reproduction is flawless, black levels are perfect, refresh rate is stunning. With a proper GPU you can push up to 240hz and never see a single tear in the frames. I have a 4070 Super and have been playing Starfield a lot lately. At 4k and on ultra settings it is buttery smooth and looks incredible. A game like that really takes advantage of the HDR and OLED qualities with all the black of space and the varied lighting on different planets. It really is stunning. On the other end of the gaming spectrum, I’ve also spent a lot of time with Cities Skylines II which involves a massive number of small details that are truly brought to life on the 4K resolution. The semi-matte finish is unobtrusive and does a great job dispersing light and reducing glare. In fact, this is one of the only screens I have that has virtually no glare whatsoever. The backside has an RGB light ring around the VESA 100x100 mounting point that can be customized in the settings to many different color options and schemes, and the body itself is a very thin high-quality metal. It includes an ultra high-speed HDMI cable, DP 1.4 cable, USB upstream cable, an unfortunately large glossy white power brick, and a full motion stand that is also a metal construction allowing for easy tilting, height, and rotation adjustments. I use a desk mount arm for it and since it is fairly lightweight it was an easy install. One of the most unique features it has is the ability to function like a TV set with a Bluetooth remote and built in wifi with streaming app support on the Tizen OS. It works great once you can get a Samsung account setup which for some reason is required to use any of the streaming apps. Doing so should be pretty easy, but it took me half a dozen tries just to get the email verification step to properly complete and was so frustrating I initially gave up entirely. A few hours later I tried again and somehow got it working which allowed me to get into my streaming apps and sign into each one. It’s a bit of a gimmick particularly since the built in speakers are subpar, but the remote can be pretty handy for navigating the various settings screens and changing inputs quickly. Whenever no motion from a mouse or input is detected, it quickly goes into a screen saver mode to protect itself from burn-in and resumes just as quickly once you want to get going again which adds an additional layer of comfort for keeping that OLED screen looking great. If you want an absolutely beautiful, responsive 4K screen for your gaming delights and have a desire to watch TV afterwards then this is the one you’ve been looking for. Requiring a Samsung login to use any additional apps is a bizarre and frustrating choice that tarnishes the experience a bit but it’s still a gorgeous screen and that fact more than makes up for that shortcoming.

TLDR - The Samsung G80SD is a monster of a screen. The colors/brightness/response time/refresh rate/resolution all come together in an amazing package of PC gaming monitor. If you have the budget, and can stomach the silly smart features, give it a look! Cons - I usually start with the Pros, but there is only one large con that I have with this display. The idiotic inclusion of “smart” things. It wants a wifi connection and you to login to a Samsung account, which admittedly is easy enough to skip over. This is a GAMING display that needs to have the ability to show the inputs included as best as it can, and nothing else. I feel like if they didn’t include wifi/bluetooth/speakers and all of the “smart” software, it would have saved a bit to make the display cost easier to take. (The OSD has SO many settings due to the “smart” stuff, BUT having a remote is, in my opinion, the only saving grace for the smart features. Being able to navigate the OSD options with a remote goes SO much quicker than using buttons/the little sticks that might be included these days) Pros - Everything else about this monitor is pretty much a pro. I came from a 144hz 32” 4K VA (1MS) panel to this beauty. I feel like my eyes have needed a recalibration after using this display for a bit. Everything is SO fast (I do have a 7900XTX to push the pixels quickly) and reactive that I’ve needed to adjust my input timing slightly. (I’m also an “old” gamer at 35) The SDR brightness can actually hurt my eyes, and HDR stuff is SO good. I’ve personally never seen contrast like this. Even games that don’t have HDR stuff built in, Windows goes ahead and enables some sort of quasi-HDR, and even good old DotA2 colors are new and pop way more than before. I also set my settings down to get 200-300fps in BF2042, and I swear my KD has slightly improved once I got used to the quicker reactions of this monitor. The design is solid, great stand (can get it right at the right height and angle easily), not too heavy, the body is crazy thin, and the included lighting in the back is very cool. The included HDMI cable works well with my 7900XTX, running HDR/10bit at 4K 240hz with freesync premium pro enabled. Overall, the dumb inclusion of the “smart” junk isn’t enough to completely remove a star, and the gaming experience is just so good that it's not enough to warrant losing a star. If you’re in the market for an ultra high end 4K display, you can count on the G80SD to fit the bill!

Decent monitor. I was aware of the smart features, so I feel I can't be too critical of them. But I sure did not like them. I was using this is a monitor and having to swap to the PC and get 2 pop ups, that you need the remote to remove or have your screen half blocked for like 15 seconds, got old fast. I had some issues too with 3 pink 0's popping up as an overlay more than once, I don't know how they appeared and only went away after unplugging the monitor for a few minutes. Nice screen though, the matte coating is actually not bad and grainy like some and really helped with the light in my room. If you have a bright room and want a 4K OLED this is the one. I returned mine in the end just because it wasn't what I wanted. But if you have a bright room and like smart features, this is the 32" 4K monitor to get.

It is really a dumb idea for a monitor to be smart. It feels like you bought a very expensive 32 inch smart TV with all the features you never asked for, which you also truly don't want. Especially when the user interface and experience is absolutely abhorrent. Too bad because the screen quality is actually very cool. I had to return it because the "smart" firmware made the monitor hard to use for dumb professional work.

The display is nice when it works properly. But it will flicker occasionally for several seconds on any input/PC/cable I use. That's really bad considering this is marketed as a gaming monitor. HDR and 240Hz seem to make the problem worse. I bought this monitor to compliment my RTX 4090 and am extremely disappointed. I always ensure my graphics drivers and monitor firmware are up to date, and I use high-bandwidth cables. I also have a thin black line flickering on it, three and a half months into owning it. Samsung support tried to tell me it was the cable, even though I told them it was on the monitor's home screen. If I wasn't tech savvy I would have never gotten the warranty support I need. Whether the technician will fix it remains to be seen. The smart features are just unnecessary bloat added to increase the price. Why would you need to watch Netflix natively from a device whose purpose is to be plugged into a PC? Would would want to pay full price for a game just to stream it directly to your monitor? Menus are convoluted and hard to navigate. This is the first Samsung display I've ever purchased and I will never buy one again. Don't make the same mistake as me. Buy an LG OLED instead.

Yikes, where do I begin… How does a monitor that has a great picture only get two out of five stars? Here’s how: This is more a TV without a built-in tuner than an actual monitor. I’ve heard that technically you can use the monitor without connecting it to your WiFi, but the entire start up process is filled with steps trying to get you to create a Samsung account, log in to your streaming service accounts, connect your monitor to your WiFi so it can be a “smart” device. The out of box experience is nothing like you’d expect for a gaming monitor, and I mean that in a bad way. Speaking of the monitor acting like a TV, it comes with a remote. That’s the only way to turn the monitor on. There are no buttons on the monitor. Even my OLED TV has buttons behind the screen if I need to turn it on without the remote. The remote is a small, thin, USB-C charged remote that you need to use every time you want to turn the monitor on or off, and it’s more annoying in practice than it sounds. The UI options are disturbingly bad. Want to lower the brightness to use the monitor in a dark room? Cool! Everything dims…except the UI. Every time you do something with the remote that pulls up the UI, expect blindingly white UI components despite having dialed in the brightness for a dim room. FPS display? Nope, my 8 year old Acer Predator can do this no problem, but there’s no meaningful options on this expensive monitor. Virtual aim point? Not something I typically use, but my Acer’s was useful, this is a few comically large green and red presets that obstruct the screen and are useless. And…that’s it. No, really, aside from a Virtual Aim Point, the only other options you get are Screen Ratio, Minimap Zoom, Sound Output and More Settings. But how does the monitor work? In the handful of days I’ve had it, I’ve gotten garbled static multiple times for a fraction of a second. It’s rare, but it happens. And that’s using the Display Port cable that the monitor ships with. None of that matches the quality of experience I would expect with a monitor of this price. Insult to injury, Samsung support is abysmal. In trying to address a single issue with the monitor, I had to speak with multiple agents, getting a new support ticket each time. At no point did any agent ever reply to any e-mail I sent to their ticket. Every e-mail I sent would almost immediately be replied to with my own e-mail being sent back to me, and I’m genuinely unsure of whether any of my e-mails were ever even seen by a Samsung agent. But back to the image: How is it? It’s pretty great. But if you expect to go to blurbusters.com’s UFO Test and see a beautiful image, it really isn’t that much better than my eight-year-old Acer Predator’s prefomance. Between Samsung’s support, the monitor’s horrible UI, remote, limited options and occasional garbled static, I don’t even want this monitor in my house. I’m returning it. I do want a nice gaming OLED monitor eventually, but when I do get one, it will not be a Samsung.