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Dell Previews 27-inch ‘5K’ UltraSharp Monitor: 5120x2880
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Dell Previews 27-inch ‘5K’ UltraSharp Monitor: 5120×2880

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 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 2560×2880 in a tiled display.

5120×2880 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 2560×1440 534 3,686,400
Samsung Galaxy S5 5.1 1920×1080 432 2,073,600
HTC One Max 5.9 1920×1080 373 2,073,600
Apple iPhone 5S 4 640×1136 326 727,040
Apple iPad mini Retina 7.9 2048×1536 324 2,777,088
Google Nexus 4 4.7 1280×768 318 983,040
Google Nexus 10 10 2560×1600 300 4,096,000
Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro 13.3 3200×1800 276 5,760,000
ASUS Zenbook UX301A 13.3 2560×1440 221 3,686,400
Apple Retina MBP 15" 15.4 2880×1800 221 5,184,000
Dell Ultrasharp 27" 5K 27 5120×2880 218 14,745,600
Nokia Lumia 820 4.3 800×480 217 384,000
IBM T220/T221 22.2 3840×2400 204 9,216,000
Dell UP2414Q 24 3840×2160 184 8,294,400
Dell P2815Q 28 3840×2160 157 8,294,400
Samsung U28D590D 28 3840×2160 157 8,294,400
ASUS PQ321Q 31.5 3840×2160 140 8,294,400
Apple 11.6" MacBook Air 11.6 1366×768 135 1,049,088
LG 34UM95 34 3440×1440 110 4,953,600
Korean 27" WQHD 27 2560×1440 109 3,686,400
Sharp 8K Prototype 85 7680×4320 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 tiling to divide up the transport workload over 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