Dell & I forgot whom else, released a 5K monitor last year, was over $4,000 (maybe ($5,000) & were sold out in no time, were accepting pre-sales.
NVIDIA has been stating for at least 2 years that 4K was the future of gaming, and now that the chance is getting close, these prices won't hold. The initial price is just like any new item, example, GPU's. When new, are expensive, to recoup some R&D cash. After awhile, a 3rd party corporation comes in with essentially the same monitor, only throws in a TN panel rather than IPS & shash 50% off the price, then the war is on, pricing will dip.
It's a crying shame when 4K monitors (at 60Hz) are typically selling for
less than 2K monitors. I mean, 4K is 4x the pixels of 1080p, while 2K is only 1080p x2. One would think that the 4K model would be more expensive, yet it's backwards, paying more for less pixels, some of these 4K monitors (like mine) has a 1ms refresh rate, the best one can get.
If these newer 4K monitors for the price runs slower than 1ms, then for sure it's not worth having. I'd imaging these are going to be fast. Not to worry, NVIDIA will have the GPU's to push these monitors, some with dual 1080 Ti's are likely set to go, any 10 series card is DP 1.4 capable. It's about time that DP 1.4 monitors hit the market, it's has been a standard for over 2 years w/out the hardware to take advantage of that speed. Which is something else to consider. Most of with 1070/1080 (to include Ti for both) has no idea of how fast our cards can run at DP 1.4, because wh haven't had any monitor to match that speed, there may had been a DP 1.3, I believe primarily for medical imaging usage. Therefore, our cards may be faster than we think, especially in a SLI configuration.
Not to worry, time is the answer, these OEM's wants to sell these to the wealthy & upper middle class who has the cash first, then once there's more competition (again, one may have a TN panel), pricing will drop. Think about it, just 5 years ago, how many of us had 4K (or 2K) monitors? Now both are everywhere. often on promo, my Samsung 4K could had been $224.99 at Costco on Black Friday 2016, but I didn't think to look, felt that 4K wasn't in my budget. I eventually got the same monitor for $299.99 (Samsung 28" U28E501D). One of which Samsung placed a similar model number on for most every big brand retailer, and sold the one on their site (the core version) for $100 more. It's a 2015 model, lacking USB ports, but it gives me 4x the real estate (pixel count) over the 24" ASUS sitting in the other corner that was $30 more in 2014. What more could I want for $300?
Now, these will never drop that low, yet I'd say that $1,000 won't be far off the mark come 12-18 months, there's also 5K monitors on the market. Dell having one, they may want to make it push the same limits, unless these are for professional usage only.
Things will be OK, remember that many of us has GPU's that'll do
8K (including the GTX 1060) & that'll be the next big release afterwards (at 60Hz for awhile) for the OEM's, once they can profit from 144Hz technology for 4K. No need to hit the panic button over an initial release, I'd bet that some who has didn't have the 1st issue with dropping $1,000+ for a CPU (Intel or AMD Threadripper).
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