Monday, November 17th 2014
Dell to Price its 27-inch 5K Monitor Under $2,000
Dell plans to launch the first consumer 5K monitor some time in December 2014, priced at just under $2,000 a pop. This comes in the wake of Apple launching the first consumer product with a 5K display, its latest iMac Retina all-in-one desktop. Dell's UltraSharp UP2715K is a 27-inch display with 5K (5120 x 2880 pixels) native resolution, which lends it a staggering 218 ppi of pixel density. Compare that to the 157 ppi of 28-inch Ultra HD monitors. 5K is four times as many pixels as WQHD.
The UltraSharp UP2715K features a 10-bit IPS panel, with 99 percent Adobe RGB and 100 percent sRGB palette coverage, and a 12-bit LUT. It offers viewing angles of 178°/178°, 8 ms response time, 350 cd/m² maximum brightness, and 1000:1 static contrast-ratio, with dynamic mega-contrast. The display needs two DisplayPort connections for sufficient bandwidth, to beam those many pixels at 60 Hz. There's also a mini-DisplayPort, but using that would either cap resolution at 3840 x 2160 @ 60 Hz, or drop refresh-rate at the native resolution.
Source:
TFT Central
The UltraSharp UP2715K features a 10-bit IPS panel, with 99 percent Adobe RGB and 100 percent sRGB palette coverage, and a 12-bit LUT. It offers viewing angles of 178°/178°, 8 ms response time, 350 cd/m² maximum brightness, and 1000:1 static contrast-ratio, with dynamic mega-contrast. The display needs two DisplayPort connections for sufficient bandwidth, to beam those many pixels at 60 Hz. There's also a mini-DisplayPort, but using that would either cap resolution at 3840 x 2160 @ 60 Hz, or drop refresh-rate at the native resolution.
19 Comments on Dell to Price its 27-inch 5K Monitor Under $2,000
That said, 10-bit IPS panels are great regardless of resolution.
Besides, text at small point sizes is a lot more demanding than video images. Once you've used a high-resolution smartphone or tablet, the text on a standard 96 DPI computer monitor looks blurry around the edges in comparison.
The question is: Do you need to game at 5K? I might go so far to say that you don't see any difference whether it is 2560x1440 or 5120x2880 on the same screen-size while gaming. So why not doubling each pixel for gaming and enjoying high-DPI while on the desktop? 2560x1440 is easy, even for midrange cards now...