Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 57" monitor with Macbook Pro M1 (2021)

@NextCspr - are you using it with a MacBookPro M1, M2 or M3 processer - I read a story that you need to have at least an M2 above to make it to the native resoution of the monitor via HDMI. I am wondering very much on how the picture might look like since the Displays resolution apparently is not a native resoution of MacOS and the PPI of the Display is way below the Apple Displays e.g. not Retina like. So how would you describe the picture quality e.g. sharpness and readability? THX

you can't hit that 7680 x 2160 resolution properly with both cables coming from ONE USB cable on the computer to the Dock. USB does not have enough bandwidth, so one half will drop in resolution or color fidelity.

That high a resolution requires a ThunderBolt port (which the display does not accept) or two cables from two different ports on your MacBook Pro.

Ryan3587 wrote:

The display's resolution is 7680 x 2160 and that is what is showing under the display settings. If I change it to default of 3840 x 1080 (Default), it just increases the size of the text and maybe clears it up just a tad, but then I lose all that glorious space.

What am I missing here?

There is an inherent tradeoff between

• The physical size of a display
• The physical size of text on a display
• The amount of text you can cram onto a display, or workspace (what you call "that glorious space")

The Mac probably does not know the physical size of your display, and assumes that the high resolution implies a high-PPI display that you would want to run in a Retina scaling mode.

• 24" 1920x1080 monitor => 91.8 PPI
• 27" 2560x1440 monitor => 108.8 PPI
• 27" 3840x2160 monitor => 163.1 PPI
• 27" 5120x2880 monitor => 217.6 PPI

There's a reason why commercial book publishers don't print all books in 2- and 3-point fonts – even though they can. Likewise, there's a reason why Retina "UI looks like 2560x1440" mode is a good one to use for a 27" display. Your vision is sensitive to physical size even when your monitor is capable of displaying a huge number of pixels.

In your case, your monitor has a very high pixel count (7680x2160 – as much as two UHD 4K monitors), but is big enough that it only has about 140 PPI. In Retina "like 3840x1080" mode, the Mac and monitor will physically size text "as if" you were running in native mode on a monitor with only 70 PPI. That's probably going to result in text being uncomfortably large.

I would think that given the physical size (57") and resolution (7840x2160) of your monitor, Retina "UI looks like 5120x1440 mode would be a useful setting. That would give you text of about the same size as on a 24" 1080p monitor, with the workspace of two 27" 2560x1440 pixel displays.

I don't know if the system will offer you a Retina 5120x1440 mode – since that would imply an internal drawing canvas with a resolution of 10240x2880 pixels (exceeding the Mac's specified resolution limits). But if you are using two cables to drive two halves of the same display, in such a way that the Mac thinks it is two displays, it might let you use Retina "2560 x 1440" (not "2560 x 1440 (low resolution)") mode for each half.

@NextCspr - what resolution and refresh rate do you get on your MBP - which Modell and Processor to you use? Furthermore what is your viewing distance ? I am a bit afraid the because the monitors natural resolution is not a mac native one.

Absolutely Fabulous NextCspr. I was not sure if I should even consider the monitor anymore - anyway I ordered it directly with Samsung - November 24 - expected delivery 8. December - did not arrive - they lost it somewhere and Samsungs can not resolve the matter. However, now I think this could work with the setup you outlined! Thanks again!

<<. Apple has been quite slow in support for non-Apple device resolutions. >>

Your statement as written is NOT correct.

Samsung Neo 49" G90

5120 by 1440

display interfaces:

displayPort 1.4 and HDMI (2)

That display can be connected to ANY Apple Silicon Mac and work at its full resolution, using an adapter to DisplayPort for any model, or using HDMI alone for M2 and later models.

I have the 49" Samsung G9, native resolution is 5120 x 1440. I have a brand new Mac Studio M2 Max, with lots of processor power etc. I cannot get this running on a single cable - only the dual (with one being crappy quality!)

mars148 wrote:

PLEASE APPLE address this issue in your OS so proper support at very high resolution so we can scale fonts etc and still keep high resolution

Support of very high resolution displays in MacOS works. if yours is not working, it is NOT due to a defect in MacOS.

if you have read this entire discuuion and yours still does not work, please start a NEW discussion so that your specific issues can get the attention they deserve. Readers can not follow the nuances of additional situations when posted here, because this discussion is already too convoluted.

So, I have a M2 Max with HDMI 2.1 connected to the Samsung 57" 4K/4K monitor, even though it says I'm getting the full resolution, the PPI seems lower than a regular 32" 4K monitor, why would that be?

Although graphics are generally displayed at full resolution, in most cases the TEXT (only) on large display tends to be unreadably small without Scaling. You use the Displays Preferences/Settings pane to control TEXT Scaling:

...

I picked up a 8K/10K HDMI cable, no change in quality of the text from the HDMI cable that was included in the box.

The display's resolution is 7680 x 2160 and that is what is showing under the display settings. If I change it to default of 3840 x 1080 (Default), it just increases the size of the text and maybe clears it up just a tad, but then I lose all that glorious space.

What am I missing here? My 32" 4K is clearer than this.