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how do you decide between 4k and ultrawide why not both
introducing the lg 5k ultrawide
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historically there have been mostly two
different pixel counts for ultra wide monitors
2560x1080 which takes your standard 16x9
1080p monitor and stretches it by a
third and 3440 by 1440 which does the
same thing to a wqhd monitor both of
them have an aspect ratio of 21x9
except it's not actually 21x9 it's more like
21 and a third by nine so
64 by 27 but i guess that didn't sound
as sexy on the marketing materials and also i guess it's easier for people to
understand 21 by nine since most people are pretty familiar with how 16x9 looks
so that means that visualizing 21x9
isn't as much of an uh stretch of the imagination as calling it
seven by three would have been anyway none of that is the point all of that
stuff pales in comparison to the beast that we've got today
this ladies and gentlemen is lg's 34
wk95 uw i think the wk is for work like
work in it because this thing boasts over 11 million pixels that are so close
to each other that if you tried to pass your body between them you would have to
go through one cell at a time it is a
lot of pixels and yet lg still doesn't call this resolution 5k they call it
5k 2k because they already make a 5k
monitor which has 3 million more pixels all in the vertical direction
so ima cho even though there are 5 000 horizontal pixels here really this
is more like a 4k ultra wide something that we've never seen before and a true
5k ultra wide should have a resolution of something like
6820x2880 but let's not get ahead of ourselves here because 5k 2k is plenty
sweet as it is its pixel density of 163
pixels per inch is almost exactly the same as a 27 inch 4k monitor putting it at
apple retina levels from a reasonable viewing distance of 21 inches which
means you will be blown away by the crazy sharp text assuming that is that
your pc can actually drive this many pixels
so if you're plugging the monitor into the displayport port man i wish they had
come up with a different name for that on your 10 series NVIDIA or rx 400
series or newer AMD graphics card then you are
golden if you're relying on the HDMI 2.0 ports
then you are basically sol you'll be capped at 3440 by 1440
since even though 3840x2160
is available you can select it that is a 16x9 aspect ratio meaning it is
squishville so say no to HDMI
as for if you're using the Thunderbolt 3 port probably on your laptop that's
where things get really interesting because when we reviewed the lg 5k ultra fine we
learned that while it worked perfectly at full resolution with our 2016 macbook
we could only get about four and a half of those k's on a Windows machine the
reason was that the available Thunderbolt 3 chipsets at that time only
supported displayport 1.2 which doesn't
have nearly enough bandwidth for 5k at 60 hertz it only worked on the macbook
because apple cleverly used the capacity from the chipsets of two side-by-side
ports to push all those pixels through but that changed ostensibly in early
2018 when Intel released a new Thunderbolt 3 chipset called titan ridge
that supports displayport 1.4 which can
handle full 5k at 60hz or even 8k at
30hz off of a single port so uh okay
that's great Linus how do i know if i have a titan ridge
good question if you want a one cord solution to
connect your laptop to an external display and potentially even charge it
at the same time what you need is both a
2018 model laptop that has the new titan ridge Thunderbolt 3 implementation you
can check with your manufacturer to find that out and a discrete GPU since titan ridge
isn't designed to work with Intel's integrated graphics
and even if you have all that there's still no guarantee that it will
charge your laptop so if you're a Windows user and a one
cable laptop docking feature is a big focus for you
be sure that you've got a compatible machine or you will be disappointed oh
and by the way you can wipe that smug latte mustache
smirk off your face's 2018 macbook users because currently mojave has a bug
preventing this monitor from working properly for you too
the good news is that once these little details are ironed out
this thing will not disappoint its color accuracy is fantastic out of the box we
measured color differences that were on average indistinguishable to the human
eye despite this not being a 10 bit panel thanks in part to lg's nano cell
tech which if you're not familiar works on a similar principle to quantum dot
but kind of the opposite so it filters out all the colors except the intended
rg and b and its HDR capabilities are what i
would describe as not bad
now bear in mind that the 34 wk95 uw
only manages a peak brightness of 600 nits while 1 000 nits is required
imo for a true okay this makes a really
big difference HDR experience but at the very least it does sport the
new vasa display HDR 600 certification
which demands 90 coverage of the dci p3
gamut a threshold that it crosses with ease the biggest deficiency with this
panel at least on our particular unit was
uniformity though and it was worst along the left edge and in the corners which
are a little darker than the rest of the display and you could also make the
argument that given the 1500 price tag the looks of the monitor are
clean but a little less premium than they could be
with that said though personally i'd rather my money went towards a better
panel and backlight solution than fancy casing for the most part anyway
so bottom line should you buy this monitor
i guess that depends on who you are if you're a gamer
you're gonna find this thing pretty hard to drive like especially in triple a
titles and i would strongly recommend a higher refresh rate lower resolution
alternative but if you specifically want large format
and very high resolution the 34 wk95 uw really is a best of both
world solution that does a reasonable job of justifying its 1500 price tag so
go for it because the rest of the really big computer displays out there are 4k
and even though they have a lot of pixels at this kind of size
4k won't be nearly as sharp as this and
for my part anyway i prefer the ultra wide aspect ratio it's kind of like
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