Dell 5K Monitor Hands-On

da_l3g3nd · 5 September 2014 04:32

Just bought a 4K panel? Well guess what, it’s obsolete already.

Yes, Dell’s new UP2715K packs in an astounding 5120x2880 pixels into a 27-inch Crystal Clear panel. That’s roughly 14.7 megapixels, versus the measly 8.3 megapixels of your 4K panel. Yes, 70 percent more pixels. Can you even run this over DisplayPort? Of course not. To push this many pixels, you need to use not one, but two DisplayPort 1.2 ports. For this demo, Dell had the monitor running off of a Quadro K5000 card. And I misspoke. The video being shown here was actually a 5K resolution H.265 video, but it showed considerable compression artifacts from being upsampled. Price? Unknown, but you know it won’t be cheap. Availability? By the end of this year, so you maybe you’ll get it under the tree if you’re a good nerd. Bad nerds, as we know, get stuck with low res TN panels and a lump of coal.

RD274 · 5 September 2014 05:37

5k? How about they just manufacture cheaper qHD panels instead.