Friday, January 6th 2017
Dell Unveils 32", 8K UltraSharp Monitor
At CES 2017, Dell has unveiled yet another addition to their monitor product line, and this one is drool worthy: an 8K, 32" UltraSharp monitor, with an insanely high resolution of 7,680 x 4,320 at 60Hz. Labeled as the world's first 32-inch 8K resolution display with Dell PremierColor, the UP3218K offers 1.07 billion colors and packs in more than 33 million pixels - four times as many as a 4K display and 16 times more than Full HD. That means it offers a PPI rating of 280 - which translates into "very high" settings for a desktop screen.
The display covers 100 percent of the Adobe RGB and sRGB color gamut, offers a brightness of 400 cd/m2 and has a contrast ratio of 1,300:1. Connectivity options include 2x DisplayPort 1.3 connections, 4x USB 3.0 ports (1x BC1.2 charging capability) and an audio line-out connection.
Now if you ignore the fact that Windows scaling doesn't work that well, and that having to upscale your desktop to make any real use of this display on a normal desktop environment basically defeats the purpose of having it in the first place, you can probably convince yourself that you need this piece of technology right away. But then, you also have to consider that buying this monitor will have you selling all two of your kidneys, and you'd probably have to find another one somewhere else (it comes with a price-tag of $4,999 when it goes on sale on March 23). Also do the math on the serious, serious hardware you'd need just to drive any real games at this 8K resolution, and... You get the picture.
This is an amazing, sleek-looking proof of concept, but it's probably still too early for any serious adoption of this kind of display technology.. That said, someone has to push the game forward, and Dell has at least proven they can do it.
Source:
Techspot
Now if you ignore the fact that Windows scaling doesn't work that well, and that having to upscale your desktop to make any real use of this display on a normal desktop environment basically defeats the purpose of having it in the first place, you can probably convince yourself that you need this piece of technology right away. But then, you also have to consider that buying this monitor will have you selling all two of your kidneys, and you'd probably have to find another one somewhere else (it comes with a price-tag of $4,999 when it goes on sale on March 23). Also do the math on the serious, serious hardware you'd need just to drive any real games at this 8K resolution, and... You get the picture.
This is an amazing, sleek-looking proof of concept, but it's probably still too early for any serious adoption of this kind of display technology.. That said, someone has to push the game forward, and Dell has at least proven they can do it.
67 Comments on Dell Unveils 32", 8K UltraSharp Monitor
I have an Xperia Z3 with a 1080p screen, and indeed I have no use for a higher resolution on my phone if it means a lower battery life.
But desktops don't have this problem, and so truly a higher resolution is always nicer (If you are willing to pay for it). Sorry, but I get mad when people say "Can't tell" or "No difference". That is just people telling themselves it's not better so they can feel good about themselves.
Crossfire and SLI don't scale that well on 3 GPUs generally. You get at best 90% to 100% additional performance from adding the second GPU but less additional performance as an overall percentage with the third GPU as you did by adding the second GPU so let's say you get 2.5 times the performance of a GPU with a triple GPU then what you are saying is that 2.5 times the performance of a Vega (or a 1080) is enough for 8K in games which is 4 times the number of pixels of 4K?
No, not even with Tri-Titan XP for gaming.
We are a long way away from gaming on 8K. I doubt it will be possible on silicon no matter what the lower process node we can wrench out of this nearly obsolete material.
You will see none of that resolution at 32"... Maybe at 50" or higher but at 32", the most you need or can even see, will be like 2560x1440..
However good luck with Java/Flash applications and web pages. Is going to be a horror running those properly.
I can see close up just as well as cdawall, but I'm just fine for far distance viewing too.. and everything in between D:Unfortunately, as much as we want faster panels, IPS just can't go much lower than 4ms with current tech. I personally don't notice any blurriness with my older 8ms IPS screens, so I'm fine on that front. The bigger worry for me is the scaler/TCON/interface conversion step, where there have been recorded cases of a 50+ms extra delay there... That's a literal continent worth of extra lag for gaming!
As for it being 8ms or less right now, I'll point to the current crop of 15.6" 4K panels that are shipping in laptops: they do 8ms or less already. This 8K panel is basically a higher-end, 32-ish" variant of those (4 of em stuck together). Likely cut from the same substrate, but 4x bigger.From experience, not really.. in fact, unless the developer has been particularly idiotic and put in very small bitmaps, both scale rather well.