now this isn't my first kick at the 5K
can I actually spent well over a month
with the 5K retina iMac and while I did at one point install Windows on the Mac
using boot camp thanks to the imac's let's say lack of upgradeability there
were some experiences that I couldn't properly evaluate the first time around
the most important of which being game performance on Enthusiast grade Hardware
at 5K something that won't be an issue in today's video about the Del
up2715k monitor the 5K display you may
plug in in any way as long as you can afford to pay sounds okay let's get
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start with the physical overview it comes packed in an environmentally
conscious cardboard packaging with the panel the stand and a metric wack ton of
cables two mini DP to DP two DP to DP
One Mini DP although that's 4K only more on that later and one USB 3 A2B also a
power cable assembly is simple just click the confidence inspiringly
well-built metal stand onto the back of the monitor where you'll also find the
option to use a standard vase amount if you want and then you're good to go good
to go with what you might ask good question let's do the physical tour and
spec stuff now starting at the front the up2715k is a 27in 16x9 aspect ratio
display that runs at the otherworldly resolution of 5120 by 2880 the 218 pixel
per inch IPS panel sits behind an edgo edge sheet of glass that helps distract
from the monitor's relatively large bezels in a world where the Mantra seems
to be Slimmer is better but then I doubt most folks will be distracted by the
bezels when they've got that screen to look at it boasts a contrast ratio of
1,000 to1 100% srgb color space coverage
and 99% Adobe RGB coverage with a true
10bit panel and a 12-bit 3D lookup table to back it up oh and on top of all that
it features the full gamut of adjustments tilt height swivel and autor
rotating pivot hm
moving to the left we find a Harmon Carden logo that by itself is completely
meaningless but combined with the surprisingly decent onboard speakers
built into the bottom of the display impressed me then further around an SD
card reader whose type is not specified in spite of the amusing amount of detail
in the Dell manual about completely irrelevant things like the pinouts of
DisplayPort and USB 3 ports but I have to assume it's SDXC since they do say
it'll handle up to 1 tbte car cards either way it's a welcome addition which
brings us around to the back where there are some simple things like the charging
only USB port here on its own power in
the Uplink and four data usb3 ports one with a bit more clearance for larger
connectors and a very unusual input
configuration the first thing you'll likely notice is the absence of anything
but DisplayPort ports with the next probably being the weird color coding on
one of the full-size ones here's how this works if you're insane or just
doing it temporarily I guess then you can plug a single DP cable into the big
blue port or the mini one but you'll be limited to 4K 60 htz hence the insanity
if that's your long-term plan for this monitor if you value your money at all
and you realize that if you'd wanted to run 4K you'd have been better served by
a native 4K display then you're going to want to plug two DisplayPort 1.2
compatible ports off your AMD NVIDIA or Intel graphics card into both of the
fullsize ports make sure you've got the latest drivers with 5K support and
you're going to be ready to rock my GTX 980 SL test bench required no extra
configuration plug-and play Baby which I legitimately wasn't expecting my early
experiences with tiled displays uh you may have guessed by now that there are
effectively two separate monitors in here with two side by-side tiles since
unlike Apple Dell couldn't create their own ton and display interface since it
had to work with standard video card was not too positive with the up2715k
other than an occasional half width bio screen and longer than normal delay when
all tabbing out of applications I didn't notice any issues yay but at this price
not noticing issues isn't good enough it has to knock your socks off I'll start
by saying I was pretty impressed by the onscreen menu lots of modes including a
low Blue Light reading mode and adjustments including six axis color
sliders for the custom calibration mode although if the included calibration
report is anything to go by most people likely won't need them since my monitor
managed Delta ease of less than two pretty much across the board indicating
excellent color accuracy and I didn't notice any backlight bleed either which
was pretty nice and while I was disappointed that Dynamic contrast ratio
cannot be turned off the built-in dead pixel Checker absolutely blew me away I
noticed while I was digging around in there that the only options for Pixel
response time are normal and fast although I couldn't tell the difference
between them at all anyway but I actually don't mind that for a couple of
reasons first I never really recommend cranking overdrive since I personally
find the artifacts on the Leading Edge much more distracting than motion blur
behind a moving object and second because the motion blur on this monitor
is surprisingly good for an IPS monitor and while I couldn't test input leg
since my tester relies on HDMI the gaming experience as far as
either of those things are concerned is great mate
but what about trying to game at that 5K resolution Linus well great question one
word wrecked actually okay not quite that bad it's it's not that bad but
forget about running games at Max details Tomb Raider 2013 was run at
Ultra with no motion blur ultimate with tress F was a stuttery mess Crisis 3
managed very high textures and medium settings across the board and Shadow of
Mordor did okay at very high without
motion blur and at medium textures it should be noted that in all of these
games I turned antialiasing off manually if it wasn't already for two reasons
number one are you insane my 980s were already suffering and number two is that
while at 4K I like two times anti-aliasing at 5K I really don't see
the point at all I seriously cannot tell the difference and I guess the word
seriously is a great segue into this conclusion this monitor is a serious
piece of gear for serious users at least the ones who are serious about accepting
the limitations of it that come along with its astonishingly sharp pixel
density at 32 in on the Acer
b326hk I found 4K barely usable but
usable without scaling so you will need scaling on this one 150% was borderline
and 200% was great for me and in Windows
I feel like that single-handedly defeats the purpose of the upgrade in the old
days we upgraded monitors to get more pixels to put stuff on it made our
virtual workspaces bigger but with 200%
scaling there is no advantage in this regard over a 1440p 27in monitor so when
steam's game list looks like it's full of you know titles about 144k Warfare it
feels like a bit of a poor investment for such a steep asking price when you
consider that Apple includes a computer in the package for a few hundred more
bucks if you're willing to give up some flexibility in terms of upgrades and
that by the time scaling is pretty much fixed across the board maybe another
couple of years much more affordable options will be available so this one
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