Dell Previews 27-inch ‘5K’ UltraSharp Monitor: 5120x2880
by Ian Cutress on September 5, 2014 3:16 AM EST- Posted in
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UHD is dead. Not really, but it would seem that displays bigger than UHD/4K will soon be coming to market. The ability of being able to stitch two regular sized outputs into the same panel via MST is now being exploited even more as Dell has announced during its Modern Workforce livestream about the new ‘5K’ Ultrasharp 27-inch display. The ‘5K’ name comes from the 5120 pixels horizontally, but this panel screams as being two lots of 2560x2880 via MST.
5120x2880 at 27 inches comes out at 218 PPI for a total of 14.7 million pixels. At that number of pixels per inch, we are essentially looking at a larger 15.4-inch Retina MBP or double a WQHD ASUS Zenbook UX301, and seems right for users wanting to upgrade their 13 year old IBM T220 for something a bit more modern.
| Displays Sorted by PPI | ||||
| Product | Size / in | Resolution | PPI | Pixels |
| LG G3 | 5.5 | 2560x1440 | 534 | 3,686,400 |
| Samsung Galaxy S5 | 5.1 | 1920x1080 | 432 | 2,073,600 |
| HTC One Max | 5.9 | 1920x1080 | 373 | 2,073,600 |
| Apple iPhone 5S | 4 | 640x1136 | 326 | 727,040 |
| Apple iPad mini Retina | 7.9 | 2048x1536 | 324 | 2,777,088 |
| Google Nexus 4 | 4.7 | 1280x768 | 318 | 983,040 |
| Google Nexus 10 | 10 | 2560x1600 | 300 | 4,096,000 |
| Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro | 13.3 | 3200x1800 | 276 | 5,760,000 |
| ASUS Zenbook UX301A | 13.3 | 2560x1440 | 221 | 3,686,400 |
| Apple Retina MBP 15" | 15.4 | 2880x1800 | 221 | 5,184,000 |
| Dell Ultrasharp 27" 5K | 27 | 5120x2880 | 218 | 14,745,600 |
| Nokia Lumia 820 | 4.3 | 800x480 | 217 | 384,000 |
| IBM T220/T221 | 22.2 | 3840x2400 | 204 | 9,216,000 |
| Dell UP2414Q | 24 | 3840x2160 | 184 | 8,294,400 |
| Dell P2815Q | 28 | 3840x2160 | 157 | 8,294,400 |
| Samsung U28D590D | 28 | 3840x2160 | 157 | 8,294,400 |
| ASUS PQ321Q | 31.5 | 3840x2160 | 140 | 8,294,400 |
| Apple 11.6" MacBook Air | 11.6 | 1366x768 | 135 | 1,049,088 |
| LG 34UM95 | 34 | 3440x1440 | 110 | 4,953,600 |
| Korean 27" WQHD | 27 | 2560x1440 | 109 | 3,686,400 |
| Sharp 8K Prototype | 85 | 7680x4320 | 104 | 33,177,600 |
Dell has been pretty quiet on the specifications, such as HDMI or DisplayPort support, though PC Perspective is reporting 16W integrated speakers. If the display is using MST to combine two outputs, that puts the emphasis squarely on two DP 1.2 connections. There is no mention of frame rates as of yet, nor intended color goals.
Clearly this panel is aimed more at workflow than gaming. This is almost double 4K resolution in terms of pixels, and 4K can already bring down the majority of graphics cards to their knees, but we would imagine that the content producer and prosumer would be the intended market. Word is that this monitor will hit the shelves by Christmas, with a $2500 price tag.
Source: Dell
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naxeem - Friday, September 05, 2014 - link
Knowing Dell and their QA dep. with UP3214Q, we'll probably be better staying away from this monitor for good. Replyddriver - Friday, September 05, 2014 - link
You might have been unlucky but I've had a number of high end Dell monitors and never had an issue with them. Or maybe you are psychic? Advising us all to stay away from a product not even tested yet? Replynaxeem - Friday, September 05, 2014 - link
I don't talk about "high end Dell monitors", but "4K Dell monitors", as in UP3214Q which proved to be junk. That device went trough no QA department and Dell's handling of that problem was a disaster:check out this epic thread: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/periph...
And check Amazon.com reviews. Reply
hughlle - Friday, September 05, 2014 - link
What has that got to do with an unreleased untested product? You're simply speculating, it means absolutely nothing. Replyimaheadcase - Friday, September 05, 2014 - link
Exactly, Dell makes many great monitors. Just because one monitor might have had issues with some people does not mean to dismiss it. I'm using two dell monitors now that are perfect for me. Replyddriver - Friday, September 05, 2014 - link
Nice, hopefully it will perform well in reviews. Good color accuracy and uniformity will make me buy this absent hesitation. ReplySamus - Friday, September 05, 2014 - link
15 million pixels. Wow. I wonder if you'd even be able to tell one was bad at that density. Replywillis936 - Friday, September 05, 2014 - link
With that many pixels I'm sure it would be an anomaly to get a new display without at least one dead pixel. Replymeacupla - Friday, September 05, 2014 - link
and here I thought 2560x1440 27" was already very crisp.I guess they are sticking to 27" to keep costs down? Reply
ddriver - Friday, September 05, 2014 - link
Actually that resolution at that size makes up for quite big pixels, at least compared to what we got used to seeing on mobile devices. I've been furious for years that lousy phones got high density display while professional grade monitors were still jagged by huge pixels, but I guess the yields were still not quite there yet to produce big displays with high density. Or maybe they figured they will make more money out of booming mobile devices, now that the frenzy has settled and production has ramped up, they started devoting to big monitors as well. Reply