Dell's Jaw-Dropping 8K Monitor Now Available to Order

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Would you pay $5,000 for a monitor? I wouldn’t, especially one that isn’t OLED. But if you are totally nuts (or merely rich), you may want to consider Dell’s new 8K monitor. Measuring at about 32”, the screen features a resolution of 7680x4320 at 280ppi. How do 4K flicks look upscaled to 8K, anyway?

Dell's exquisitely detailed UltraSharp 32 8K monitor is now up for grabs — if you just so happen to have a spare $5,000 lying around, that is. Now on sale direct from Dell, the (decidedly unsexy sounding) UP3218K may cost an arm and a leg (and another leg), but it promises an insane amount of detail and excellent color accuracy. The display itself is packed inside of a relatively staid exterior typical of Dell monitors. At 31.5 inches, the 7680x4320 resolution comes out to 280ppi. Aside from packing a crazy 33.2 million pixels into that space, Dell is touting the UP3218K color accuracy as one of its strong points.
 
Really irks the hell out of me to call them 4K and 8K monitors when they're not 4K and 8K but because bigger numbers mean more to stupid people they'll market them as such and that's that. I'm talking of course about how we've always used the vertical resolution as the format indicator but a few years ago someone started using the horizontal because it's a bigger number and so we're stuck with it now.

The truism in my sig just gets more true by the second. ;)
 
Let's see..."4k" = 8.3M pixels..."8k" = 33.2M pixels.

A 1080ti can just BARELY drive 4k@60Hz in "most" games. So you're gonna need at least quad SLI to hit 60Hz. And quad-SLI is a thing of the past. And quad-SLI scaling sucked.
 
SvenBent said:
or settle for console fluid CINEMA quality of 24fps :D
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Well, it's mostly linear...so if you get 60Hz at 4k, you should get around 15fps with a single 1080Ti...so with a good 70% scaling, you might hit 24fps at 8k with a pair in SLI.
 
heatlesssun said:
Nope, not anywhere near max settings for modern games for sure. 4k will be the target for high end gaming for some years. With prices like this, 8k isn't a factor for gaming.
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Yeah, was just curious if you could even get near it....didn't really think so.
 
Would you at least be able to completely turn off anti-aliasing with this pixel density?
 
Aside from the cost and the ability to drive it with current video cards at a high enough frame rate, this would have to be a very beautiful display. As a computer monitor, I would think you'd be able to tell a difference between 4K & 8K. 32" @ 15" away.

Not too practical yet, but damn would it be nice to have.
 
Ur_Mom said:
Aside from the cost and the ability to drive it with current video cards at a high enough frame rate, this would have to be a very beautiful display. As a computer monitor, I would think you'd be able to tell a difference between 4K & 8K. 32" @ 15" away.

Not too practical yet, but damn would it be nice to have.
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4-Way SLI, I would think, would be needed.
 
RogueTadhg said:
4-Way SLI, I would think, would be needed.
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I've cranked up the eye candy on several games in the past. Ultra settings, 8xAA/16xAF, highest resolution I could... Couldn't play the game. Sometimes, it'd hit 1FPS. But, damn it looked good. :D

I'd love to see [H] get one of these and just go balls to the wall. Ultra high settings across the board. Just see how much punishment they could get. Then, dial it down to real playable numbers @ 8K. How limited are we with these video cards and what do we have to sacrifice to play at 8K.
 
Ur_Mom said:
I've cranked up the eye candy on several games in the past. Ultra settings, 8xAA/16xAF, highest resolution I could... Couldn't play the game. Sometimes, it'd hit 1FPS. But, damn it looked good. :D

I'd love to see [H] get one of these and just go balls to the wall. Ultra high settings across the board. Just see how much punishment they could get. Then, dial it down to real playable numbers @ 8K. How limited are we with these video cards and what do we have to sacrifice to play at 8K.
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If they were to benchmark on a 8K monitor, that would definitely separate [H] from the pack. And then Kyle (or whomever) wouldn't need to buy another monitor until next year.
 
Yeah I don't want a 32" 8K monitor. I could be talked into a 32" 4K monitor, but not more than $500. $5000 for this thing is just insulting.

Pusher of Buttons said:
Jesus, would 1080ti SLI even drive that properly?
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Might be time to figure out how to hack 1080ti's to accept 3 way SLI again.
 
8K. Now we're talkin' media bandwidth if a 10 minute video of 4K at 60FPS is roughly 650 meg using H264.
 
I have zero interesting in that kind of resolution, especially on a monitor that small.

IMHO, 4k doesn't even make sense until you start getting up to about 40" and that's when you are sitting right in front of it.

Some day in the distant future, the GPU capacity to drive ultra-high resolutions on high DPI screens to the point where we no longer need AA might arrive, but until that day, ~95 to 110 dpi is the sweet spot for desktop use. Going above that is just going to waste your pixels on the desktop if you have to use scaling, and the extra pixels are better used for greater size and more immersion in games than they are for increasing DPI.

I mean, as it stands, even the top single GPU on the market can just barely handle 60hz at 4k on some titles, and not at all in others.

8k is just a marketing figure at this point, and DPI has become the next "megapixels" driving people to go bigger for no reason.
 
Betaboy1983 said:
8K. Now we're talkin' media bandwidth if a 10 minute video of 4K at 60FPS is roughly 650 meg using H264.
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That's why we have H.265:p

At least Dell gives a no bright pixel guarantee for that money, but it's still 60Hz and no HDR. I'm guessing this is mainly for artists?
 
I'm sure the photographers in [H] are drooling over this monitor. I'm not a photographer.

And $5k for a monitor? YEOWCH!!!!! Way too rich for my blood and leagues beyond what I need or want at this time.
 
Older games will likely run just fine at 8K. I still play Command & Conquer 3 which has a max of 30 fps. It looks real good at 4K; I wonder what it will look like at 8K? My main concern is the video cable: how long can it be?
 
I don't question some professional users spending 5k or more on a monitor, in this price range I would go Ezio as my monitor source not Dell.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
I have zero interesting in that kind of resolution, especially on a monitor that small.

IMHO, 4k doesn't even make sense until you start getting up to about 40" and that's when you are sitting right in front of it.

Some day in the distant future, the GPU capacity to drive ultra-high resolutions on high DPI screens to the point where we no longer need AA might arrive, but until that day, ~95 to 110 dpi is the sweet spot for desktop use. Going above that is just going to waste your pixels on the desktop if you have to use scaling, and the extra pixels are better used for greater size and more immersion in games than they are for increasing DPI.

I mean, as it stands, even the top single GPU on the market can just barely handle 60hz at 4k on some titles, and not at all in others.

8k is just a marketing figure at this point, and DPI has become the next "megapixels" driving people to go bigger for no reason.
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On top of that, there really needs to be some sort of compatibility mode or 3rd party zoom in utility to cover programs that WILL NOT scale properly. At 8k they'll practically be invisible.
 
yep it's an 8k monitor.

lets see the stand. a bad stand can break a great monitor. look at the samsung 4k monitors.

great screen poor stand.
 
$5K is too much.

OLEDS burn in. I know this because I have some that are burnt in. Never again, don't care how inky the blacks are.

As to 8K being "too much" it's not if you're working on 4K video and want to see all the pixels without scaling AND the apps you're using.
 
Tiberian said:
Really irks the hell out of me to call them 4K and 8K monitors when they're not 4K and 8K but because bigger numbers mean more to stupid people they'll market them as such and that's that. I'm talking of course about how we've always used the vertical resolution as the format indicator but a few years ago someone started using the horizontal because it's a bigger number and so we're stuck with it now.
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Just wait, soon they'll measure pixels in the diagonal cause it's yet a bigger number.
 
heatlesssun said:
Nope, not anywhere near max settings for modern games for sure. 4k will be the target for high end gaming for some years. With prices like this, 8k isn't a factor for gaming.
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4k hdr will be THE target console games next
 
Master_shake_ said:
yep it's an 8k monitor.

lets see the stand. a bad stand can break a great monitor. look at the samsung 4k monitors.

great screen poor stand.
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As long as it supports a VESA mount, who cares? You can put it on whatever stand you want at that point.
 
Merc1138 said:
As long as it supports a VESA mount, who cares? You can put it on whatever stand you want at that point.
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looks sturdy.
 
Considering that you are 100% GPU bound at 4k and above, It will be years before we're going to see a GPU that can push 32MP of screen real estate on just current gen games, not to mention future tech.

The PPI is god damn fine tho, and pretty much what we really want, regardless of the resolution bump.
 
The PPI might just be big enough to hide any scaling artefacts, so a lot of resolutions should look 'relatively' native.

However, I am more for high refresh and HDR over high resolution. 4k/144hz/hdr (preferably not IPS, TN or VA) is my next monitor upgrade target.
 
oldmanbal said:
Considering that you are 100% GPU bound at 4k and above, It will be years before we're going to see a GPU that can push 32MP of screen real estate on just current gen games, not to mention future tech.
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It will be interesting to see if games like Doom can run just fine at 8K. But with an 8K screen with high ppi, you have the option of running games at 4K and 1080p
 
All the early-adopters who jump on the 8k bandwagon are going to scream when I buy next month's 9k. ;)
 
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