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.

The MPG 272URX QD-OLED and the MPG 272QR QD-OLED X50 are the world’s first 27-inch QD-LED gaming monitors with DisplayPort 2.1a.

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.

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,

I was really expecting Samsung to go bigger with its OLED gaming monitors this year. Not so, at least not yet. Instead, the company is focusing on blazing-fast speed. Like MSI and Asus previously announced,