Samsung Smart Monitor M90SF Review: the 4K OLED hybrid

I measured a maximum of 980 peak brightness nits in a 1 % and 850 nit window in a 4 percent window, approaching the request of Samsung of 1,000 nit. It is no place close to 2,000 nits (or more) that you can climb a large OLED television, but for the current OLED monitor harvest, it is very bright. It is a huge update compared to a typical IPS monitor when it comes to watching movies.

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As usual with OLED monitors, it is not terribly bright in the standard definition interval (SDR). I measured it to only 233 maximum brightness Nits. This is darker than a high-quality LED or mini-guiding monitor, which can sometimes get up to 400 or 500 nit. You may want it to be brighter if you are in a lively room.

The colors, however, are fantastic, covers 91 percent of Adobergb and 98 percent of P3. I would calibrate this screen if you intend to use it for a serious color classification. The colors were not as accurate as I saw in other OLED monitors, especially in the predefined color tone mode, “Warm1”. Switch to “standard” mode has helped slightly, bringing the delta-e to 1.86. I would have liked to see the precision of the highest color, however, above all because the OLED monitors are excellent for content creators.

By the way, I was unable to access HDR when I am connected to a MacBook, which seems to be a popular option for the aforementioned content creators. I also met a frustrating macOS bug that automatically made every video automatically, which it was Netflix or YouTube. Fortunately, none of these problems occurred in Windows.

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At its original $ 1,600 price, it is madly expensive. They are $ 800 more expensive than M8 M80FAnother 32 -inch Smart 4K monitor with many of the same features. The inevitable discounts will make the stomach easier and I do not recommend buying M90SF at full price.

You are still paying a few hundred dollars more than the Samsung Odyssey G8, which is also a 32-inch 4K OLED monitor and has a fastest update rate of 240 Hz. If you are not sure you will constantly use those extra features, it is better to save your money by purchasing the Dell 32 Plus QD-Oled or one of the many good OLED Games monitor there. Heck, you can buy a rather incredible TV for those cash.

You are paying more for those intelligent features and the possibility of transmitting without being connected to a PC. There is more, like the impressive pair of speakers on board and a nice 12 megapixel webcam. Those are not things that you will find on your average game monitor. So, for the right person, who seems to be an person like me – who is worth one more prize.