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The Samsung CHG90 is a massive 49-inch 3840x1080 monitor that features an exceptional balance between picture quality, responsiveness, and the amount of display space. It runs a curved and color-accurate VA panel.
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Pros
Pro Good for gaming
Samsung CHG90 offers better gaming performance then the overwhelming majority of 40”+ competitors, as this 144 Hz monitor offers highly responsive gameplay with reasonably well-handled motion.
Additionally, due to the monitor's aspect ratio of 32:9 you’ll have a wide field of view in the games, like the CS: GO, DOTA 2, League of Legends, and the Star Wars Battlefront.
Pro Good picture quality
The monitor’s native contrast ratio, peak brightness, gamma, color accuracy, and color uniformity are superior to what the overwhelming majority of competitors on the market offer.
It can display amazingly beautiful images, with a wide range of vivid and accurate colors, rich and intense blacks, and some eye-catching intermediate tones that look genuinely accurate. Colors pop, and look crisp because of the monitor’s peak brightness of 331 nits, which, combined with the CHG90’s high color uniformity, makes the colors appear consistent across the entire panel. Dark scenes look deep because of the monitor’s native contrast ratio of 3756:1 which manages to make its blacks appear truly dark. Mid-tones look life-like as the monitor’s gamma is less than one percent off from being perfect.
Additionally, the Samsung CHG90 can display a higher variety of colors than the majority of its competitors because it uses a true 10-bit panel that allows it to reproduce more than a billion colors.
Furthermore, the monitor’s color inaccuracies are such insignificant, that the human eye can't see those since the panel’s average color error dE is only 1.13.
Pro Supports HDR media
Combining its color gamut, HDR peak brightness, and native contrast ratio with the full HDR10 support the Samsung CHG90 outperforms the absolute majority of its competitors when it comes to the HDR media playback.
When working with HDR media, Samsung CHG90 can display almost 90% of pure HDR colors of the DCI P3 color space because of the monitor’s wide color gamut. Such DCI P3 coverage is an infrequent feature for a general purpose monitor. DCI P3 is the color space used in HDR media production.
Moreover, the monitor has enough luster to highlight vivid objects in the HDR mode where its brightness peaks at around 600 nits.
Additionally, the Samsung CHG90 is among a handful of monitors that support HDR10.
Pro Highly responsive
The Samsung CHG90 is among the most responsive monitors on the market as its input lag was measured at an amazingly low value of 4.6 ms.
Monitor’s input lag is significant in gaming as it shows how much time does a monitor needs to process a frame generated by a computer’s graphics card.
Pro Massive amount of display real-estate
The Samsung CHG90 is a fantastic tool for productivity as its 49-inch 3840x1080 display offers enough real-estate to place three Google Docs side by side comfortably. The monitor will also come in handy for those working with massive Excel sheets because of its large on-screen area.
Furthermore, the monitor’s Picture-by-picture mode allows the Samsung CHG90 to display pictures from different sources simultaneously. Such feature will make your life much easier if you use a laptop alongside your desktop computer.
Additionally, you can manage and organize your workspace using the Samsung’s Easy Setting Box.
Pro Suitable for web designers and photographers
Because of its full sRGB coverage, the Samsung CHG90 is an excellent tool for media artists, such as web designers and photographers that work in the sRGB color space.
Additionally, Samsung CHG90 is suitable for those who make videos for web applications, like YouTube and Twitch, as those also use the sRGB as a default color space.
Pro Handles motion quite well
The Samsung CHG90 displays good-looking motion with only some minor traces of motion blur following fast-moving objects on the screen as the monitor’s pixels need only around 10.8 ms to change their color. Such rapid pixel transition is achieved because of the monitor’s full pixel response time of 10.8 ms.
Additionally, the monitor doesn’t suffer from any noticeable ghosting.
Furthermore, the motion looks smooth because of the monitor's 144 Hz native refresh rate, which ensures that the Samsung CHG90 displays a new frame every seven milliseconds.
Pro Supports FreeSync 2
FreeSync eliminates tearing and reduces stutter because allows the Samsung CHG90 to synchronize its refresh rate to the framerate of your AMD graphics card.
FreeSync 2 is an advanced AMD’s technology which combines adaptive synchronization with HDR. AMD claimed that only the best HDR monitors would be compatible with FreeSync 2.