![]() Like with the Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 S32BG75, there are reports that enabling local dimming worsens the response times. 'Faster' and 'Extreme' have too much overshoot. Enabling VRR locks you out of any overdrive setting, and the response time is quick with it, and if you don't use VRR the best overdrive setting is 'Standard' because it performs similarly. There's minimal blur trail behind fast-moving objects, but there's significant overshoot with dark transitions that leads to inverse ghosting. The Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 has an excellent response time at its max refresh rate of 240Hz. Overall, native HDR content looks great, but HDR looks washed out on desktop if you leave Windows HDR enabled. With local dimming disabled the EOTF is terrible and all scenes are too dark. The EOTF on 'Low' follows a similar pattern, but it isn't as aggressive with crushing blacks. The EOTF is also similar with Local Dimming set to 'Auto', as you can see here. These results are in the 'Custom' Picture Mode with the Brightness at its max and Local Dimming set to 'High'. Setting Local Dimming to 'Low' actually makes real scenes brighter because it raises the overall black level, but small highlights don't pop as much. The real scene brightness is low considering it gets bright with small highlights, so that means content with bright objects all over the screen doesn't get the brightest. There's also a sharp cut-off at the peak brightness, causing a loss of fine details in bright scenes. Unfortunately, the EOTF doesn't follow the target PQ curve well as it crushes blacks and over-brightens brighter details. Samsung advertises Quantum HDR 2000, but this isn't a real VESA certification, and it doesn't hit 2000 nits. It's brightest with small highlights as they pop against a dark background, but it gets dimmer with larger areas due to its ABL. ![]() It's very similar to the Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 S32BG75, and with most real content, it's not as bright in HDR as the Sony INZONE M9. The Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 has decent HDR peak brightness. If you find the aggressive ABL too distracting to use on the desktop, it's better to disable the local dimming as there isn't any variation in brightness and it's still bright enough to fight glare: The measurements are from after calibration in the 'Custom' Picture Mode with the Brightness at its max and the Local Dimming on 'High'. Setting it to 'Auto' has the same real scene brightness as 'High'. Setting the local dimming to 'Low' results in a higher real scene brightness of 401 cd/m², but highlights aren't as bright. This means that there's a variation of brightness with different content, like when you minimize and maximize windows on the desktop, and there's also some blooming around small bright objects on a dark background, like the mouse cursor. It's enough to fight glare in a well-lit room, but it has an aggressive Automatic Brightness Limiter with Local Dimming set to 'High'. The Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 has impressive peak brightness in SDR. These videos along with the video above were done with the Local Dimming on 'High'. ![]() We also filmed our TV real content videos for reference from straight on and from the side. It doesn't look any different with VRR enabled or not, but there's flicker in dark scenes with VRR enabled and a low frame rate (see Variable Refresh Rate section for more). Overall it's a good implementation of local dimming, but the off-angle issues take away from its overall performance. Highlights also transition between zones well and the algorithm keeps up with fast-moving objects. Unfortunately, the blooming is worse when viewing from an angle and you don't need to be far off-center for you to notice it, so you need to sit in front of the monitor for the best performance. There's a bit of blooming with subtitles and with the mouse on a dark background, but it isn't an issue with most content or games. The uniformity with Local Dimming on 'High' is great as there's minimal blooming around bright objects. Setting it to 'Low' results in less black crush because it raises the black levels more, but highlights aren't as bright, so there's a trade-off when deciding which setting you prefer the most. It also makes small highlights pop against a dark background, as long as they're big enough to turn on a dimming zone, otherwise, they look crushed. Setting Local Dimming to 'High' deepens blacks, but there's black crush that causes a loss of fine details in dark scenes. The Mini LED backlighting provides better control over the local dimming zones compared to traditional edge-lit monitors. It features Mini LED backlighting with a 46x26 array for 1,196 zones. The Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 has decent local dimming, and it's very similar to the Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 S32BG75.
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