Dell's groundbreaking 8K monitor the last time
I checked out one of these was on a crowded show floor and to say that that
one was a little pre-production would be
an understatement but Dell has been hard at
work for 4 months on their apptly named
up3218k and the the finished product is now in
our hands for evaluation as a Content
creation device a Content consumption
device and last but not least we uh might fire
up some games on
it Synergy is the software that lets you
share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers check it out now at
the link in the video description wait for
it I went too early here we go it's
alive 8K resolution at 60 HZ everything
about the ultra shark up 321 is either
state-of-the-art like the aluminum build quality hyper thin infinityedge TM bezel
and glass front or it makes state-ofthe-art
look like an antique the specs of this
thing are absolutely unreal it comes
tuned out of the box with an individual calibration report that promises Delta e
values of less than two and full
yes 100% coverage of the Adobe RGB color
space it's got 400 nit Peak brightness
which is Rock Solid for a non-HDR panel
although a little more on that later and a static contrast ratio of 1,300 to1
which is outstanding for an IPS panel type but that ignores the most obvious
calling card of this utterly unique
product the 8K resolution 10bit 60 HZ
panel I mean this is so far out ahead of
the curve that we don't even have a display interface that can handle it yet
like early 4K displays with DisplayPort
1.1 inputs it needs two connections to
the computer to run at its maximum 60 HZ
refresh rate but there's a big difference these are DisplayPort
1.4 four ports well hold on a minute lonus DP 1.2 can handle 4K 60 HZ no
problem and 1.4 has about double that
bandwidth why do we need two of those
ah because 8K is more than twice as many
pixels as 5K four times as many as 4K
and I'll whopping 16 times the pixel
count of 10 80P we are talking
33 megapixels 60 times per second and until
video card makers Implement DSC or
display stream compression the only way
to push this many pixels is going to be to add more chords I have some good news
too though Dell has a lot of experience
building high-end displays and it really
shows unlike early dual input 4K monitors
there's no flakiness where half of the display looks a little different from
the other half or where one side will refuse to turn on sometimes in fact you
can even just yank out one of the cables
and the only effect that you'll see is that the entire display will now be
running at 30 HZ instead of 60 and from
what I've seen plugging it back in is an equally seamless transition
and all of this experience carries over to the physical design as well in spite
of the panels weight heat and power consumption
characteristics they managed an internal power supply with passive Cooling and
all the Creature Comforts that creatives are used to height adjustment tilt
swivel and even pivot are all built into
a base that just exudes quality and they
include a vase amount for you as well
not only that but while you're typing or moving your mouse around there is next
to no screen wobble which is really hard to do with a panel this heavy the four
port built-in USB hub is pretty much a
bonus at this point though if I was to criticize something I wouldn't mind some
basic built-in speakers for emergencies
okay enough about all of that though let's talk about actually using it the
first thing I wanted to do was fire up an 8K wallpaper which believe it or not
in spite of all the advertised 8K wallpapers are pretty freaking hard to
find took me about 20 minutes that would
be a nice touch D including some like
dope AF highly detailed desktop
backgrounds cuz once I got that fired up it looked freaking amaz balls I mean
seriously face this close to the display
and you're basically is she naked on that
balcony no no no she's not but the crazy
thing is that I can tell in terms of
configuration The Sweet Spot for scaling seems to be in the sort of
250% range if you have pretty sharp eyes
and uh yeah I mean I guess it's really
easy to get going so let's have a look at some content
creation High DPI scaling still isn't perfect across the board on Windows 10
creators update but Adobe Premier Pro
scales perfectly looks absolutely razor
sharp and I have no complaints as far as
this particular Suite goes but this is
one time when being ahead of the curve
it has the potential to be a little bit
rough because uh unless you've also
dropped you know 7 plus ,000 on your uh
you know red rocket X accelerator card and a high-end GPU if you're working
with Native 8K content there is pretty
much no way that I can see that you're going to be able to play back this kind
of footage in real time anyway losing
some of the benefit if you're playing it back at a quarter or 1/8 resolution of
investing in an 8K display but of course
that's only true if you're talking about the footage before you've exported it so
let's go ahead and Export the footage and just watch it
back okay so now we're talking this cool as a
cucumber chunk of 8K footage of our DIY
desk PC project which was shot on the Red Epic W with the helium sensor that
burkel set to music looks fantastic on
this display the 8K viewing experience is unlike anything else in that you can
sit as close as you want to the Monitor
and you still can't perceive any drawback other than that maybe it
captured too many little details like specks of dust that you wouldn't have
necessarily wanted to show with that
said on the subject of drawbacks um all
of this is if you can find any 8K content we used our own for reasons
Beyond convenience there just isn't much
but how about 8K gaming I don't know
about you guys but for me one of the greatest things about PC gaming is that
getting a better video card and uh higher resolution new monitor is a great
way to breathe life into Old titles
giving them a visual Fidelity that not even the developer would have been able
to experience as at the time of creating
them unfortunately in this
case there were some drawbacks to go
along with the phenomenal image quality
I actually don't blame Dell for any of this the input leg and pixel response
times of their AK display are about as
good and feel about as good as you'd expect but even with top-of-the-line GTX
1080ti graphics cards in SLI with liquid
cooling to boot either the driver or the
game engine whoa that was fun seems to
just choke on something all the time and
crash as often as not and this is even true for relatively lightweight titles
like Team Fortress 2 so is there a
customer for this thing at 5,000
us well high-end users used to spend
that kind of money on larger displays
and higher resolution to increase their
working space for program layouts and
their canvas size for their projects
that is where legendary displays like dellz own 3007 wfp got their popularity
going from a 1280 by 1024 17in LCD which would have been
pretty typical at the time to one of those beasts was like moving from the
closet under the stairs on privet drive to Buckingham freaking Palace but
nowadays you can get something the same size as this with a usable resolution
for literally an order of magnitude less
money I mean obviously it costs more than that one for something with color
accuracy approaching this guy but we're still still paying a big premium for a
couple of things number one is sharpness
though to Dell's credit that is a sharpness that absolutely crushes even
outstanding displays like LG's ultra fine 5K on paper though in my honest
opinion in person the difference is not as noticeable as you might hope and
number two for being the first one on
the block with an eight K
display so then especially with that
last point in mind is there a customer
for this product well you bet there is
because when it comes to pcmr bragging
rights there is no limit as far as I can
tell and this is the
Ultimo Synergy is a software download
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