Samsung’s OLED TVs are lastly getting Nvidia G-Sync help

Nvidia G-Sync—the corporate’s proprietary anti-tearing frame-sync function—isn’t only for displays anymore. To be truthful, it hasn’t been simply for displays for a very long time. Loads of gaming laptops and a few high-end LG televisions have supported the tech since means again in 2019. In the present day, nevertheless, Samsung says all its new OLED shows (each Odyssey displays and TVs) are appropriate with G-Sync.

G-Sync is most helpful if you’re taking part in a graphics-intensive sport and the body charge persistently dips under the utmost refresh charge of your display screen. By syncing the refresh of the show to the frames being output by your PC—that means the refresh charge itself dips decrease as wanted—you get a smoother visible expertise with out tearing. G-Sync is a proprietary model of tech that’s typically known as variable refresh charge. (AMD’s model, which is open to nearly any show, known as FreeSync.)

Samsung says that the brand new Odyssey OLED gaming displays for 2026 will help G-Sync, which not wants devoted {hardware} on the monitor facet. That flexibility additionally lets it work with 2026 Samsung OLED TVs, with the S85H, S90H, and S95H introduced at CES 2026 all highlighted. Relying on the precise mannequin and measurement, the refresh charges of those OLED TVs are between 120Hz and 160Hz.

There have all the time been PC players who attached their desktops or laptops to lounge TVs, and quite a lot of use smaller high-end TVs as options to massive displays. However methinks the development is on the rise, particularly since units just like the Steam Deck and its numerous handheld options are really easy to dock to TVs and switch into big-screen gaming machines. The second-gen Steam Machine anticipated in a number of months (with an AMD GPU, so FreeSync as an alternative of G-Sync) may deliver much more consideration to PC video games on greater TVs.