MSI has unveiled a world's first gaming monitor at CES 2025, and this monitor sports the gorgeous QD-OLED pixel technology from Samsung.

Samsung reveals a trio of Odyssey high-end gaming monitors for CES 2025 The Odyssey G8 and G6 have 27-inch panels, one with a 4K resolution, the other with a 500Hz refresh rate The new Odyssey G7 is an 'industry first' 5K 40-inch OLED monitor Samsung has taken the covers off a trio of Odyssey gaming monitors for CES 2025,

Samsung has a 500Hz OLED gaming monitor, and I had the chance to try it out for myself at CES 2025. It's incredible.

27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors seem to be like buses: you wait ages for one and then three turn up at once. Asus, Samsung, and MSI are all announcing the industry’s next-generation QD-OLED gaming monitors that offer the benefits of 4K OLED 240Hz panels at the smaller 27-inch size instead of 32 inches.

When Samsung unveiled the world’s first 27-inch 4K gaming OLED monitor on Thursday, Engadget’s Igor Bonifacic predicted that other vendors would soon follow suit. (After all, Samsung is also the biggest supplier of OLED gaming monitor panels.

Samsung has announced its new monitor lineup for 2025, including the Odyssey OLED G8 (G81SF), which is said to be the world's first 27-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate. This announcement comes alongside (or even before) similar reveals from other manufacturers like MSI, which also unveiled a monitor with similar specifications.

Alienware is joining Asus, Samsung, and MSI in making a silly “world’s first” claim — all four of them are now set to launch a genuinely exciting new wave of 27-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitors with an excellent 240Hz refresh rate.

Samsung Display has the first OLED panel with 4K resolution on less than 30 inches. Asus and MSI also use the new version.

Dell has cut the price on an exceptional Alienware 27-inch gaming monitor with a QD-OLED panel. Here's why you'll love it.