Dell UP2715K - 5K Monitor - Review

[Baasha]

The world's first Dell 5K Monitor (Dell UP2715K) Review:

Dell UP2715K Review

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[skipsneeky2]

Awesome video and wow@67fps average in BF4 on medium on 4x980.Guessing you pretty much had deferred aa off?Bet it still looked beautiful.

Maybe 4x 980ti 6/12gb could allow you to run high and sit over 80 average ?

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Amazing. It's just weird how stagnant monitors have been until like the last 6 months. Things are moving forward nicely now.

Just wish IPS panels could have TN speed.

 

[skipsneeky2]

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Just wish IPS panels could have TN speed.

The day that happens,count on pretty much every respectable gamer buying one and never touching 4k.Would be next to no reason for a upgrade.:awe:

 

[VulgarDisplay]

The day that happens,count on pretty much every respectable gamer buying one and never touching 4k.Would be next to no reason for a upgrade.:awe:

I want a 4k IPS with 120hz and 2ms response time thanks.

 

[skipsneeky2]

I want a 4k IPS with 120hz and 2ms response time thanks.

Oh that will be a wait for sure,as beast as it would be imagine the system needed for it today.:awe: Didn't 1440p just come out with IPS@120hz?Or wasn't that led?Maybe it was 144hz? You could sell tickets today to a show where the masters of the impossible power a 4k 120hz IPS gaming rig.:biggrin:

Perhaps when such a monitor is released,there would be enough gpu power where sli mid range cards could pull off powering such a monitor.

 

[KaRLiToS]

Nice Baasha.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Saw Baashas BC2 video with the 3 way monitor setup and 4x titans,it looked beast.Got me to thinking that perhaps that would be a perfect game to run on that 5k monitor.I couldn't even get that game up to 1200p to touch 1gb vram usage and that is with max settings and AA in-game.It is impossible on a peasant resolution lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMk-ZDyUMto This is the one lol. He didn't touch 3gb on that set up!

 

[lopri]

Very nice. Does it get warm?

 

[lopri]

BTW there is a registry fix for Adobe CS5/CS6 for high PPI monitors.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

That is the resolution to I plan to go to after I'm finished with 1440 144Hz. How does 1440p look on the monitor? Does it upscale well?

 

[lavaheadache]

4k and mst left such a sour taste in my mouth that it will be a while till I try to go with a high PPI display on a windows OS again

 

[Rvenger]

4k and mst left such a sour taste in my mouth that it will be a while till I try to go with a high PPI display on a windows OS again

Same here. Some games it looks gorgeous but most of the others I experienced crashing, tearing and some horrible font scaling issues. I returned my 4k Acer and holding on to my 1440p IPS.

I am sure once the software and hardware catches up 4 -5k will be a really nice experience, right now it takes too much work to actually get it working properly.

 

[Z15CAM]

wow@67fps average in BF4 o

Heh! How about a 100 fps average in BF4 with a $300 QUNX 2610 2560x1440 IPS display at 60Hz !

Of course I've got an excuse for running Water Cooled 290X's in CF.

 

[Baasha]

Thanks guys!

Awesome video and wow@67fps average in BF4 on medium on 4x980.Guessing you pretty much had deferred aa off?Bet it still looked beautiful.

Maybe 4x 980ti 6/12gb could allow you to run high and sit over 80 average ?

Yes, I'm waiting for the next set of GPUs as I mentioned in the video - hopefully they will have 8GB of VRAM.

I was running 4K Surround before this which is actually a much higher resolution than 5K (24.8MP vs. 14.7MP). The 4x GTX-Titan Black SC which had 6GB of VRAM did okay as I showed in my benchmark thread but there were several issues with the MST monitors (x3) and such an insane resolution. Plus, since I wanted to record more gameplay, I found myself coming back to 4K (1 monitor) to do that since I couldn't really play @ 4K Surround AND record @ 4K - although I did do that in a couple of videos which was just badass!

That is the resolution to I plan to go to after I'm finished with 1440 144Hz. How does 1440p look on the monitor? Does it upscale well?

I don't know how 1440P looks but I tried 4K on it and it works great. No issues with stuttering screens etc. Just set the resolution and go!

The obvious downside, as I mention in the review, is the dual DP 1.2 connections for 5K. DP 1.3 won't become mainstream for at least another year so I didn't want to wait that long.

4k and mst left such a sour taste in my mouth that it will be a while till I try to go with a high PPI display on a windows OS again

It seems like you must have gotten one of the early batches of the UP2414Q.

My monitors (since I had 3 of them) hardly had any issues - even in 4K Surround. I did have the intermittent half screen not showing up etc. but overall, they were fine.

Of course, now the 4K options are dime a dozen.

This 5K monitor has NONE of those issues despite being an MST display. No half-screens, no cold-boot issue, and no flickering nonsense when changing resolutions etc. It just works out of the box w/ the two DP 1.2 connections @ 5K as advertised.

Ultimately, I asked myself, "What is better than a 5K monitor? Why two of them of course!"

 

[palladium]

Ohh didn't realise the video on youtube was yours!

Just wondering how does things like contrast ratio and panel uniformity compare with your previous 30inchers? I am looking to get one but its mostly for work and movies; I only play dota2 and civ5 nowadays so I hope 2x7970 will do the job....

Also what are your experiences on using high PPI displays in Win8.1? Do you have to use built in scaler in windows (which I heard is horrible)?

Nice video btw!

 

[Lepton87]

Ohh didn't realise the video on youtube was yours!

Just wondering how does things like contrast ratio and panel uniformity compare with your previous 30inchers? I am looking to get one but its mostly for work and movies; I only play dota2 and civ5 nowadays so I hope 2x7970 will do the job....

Also what are your experiences on using high PPI displays in Win8.1? Do you have to use built in scaler in windows (which I heard is horrible)?

Nice video btw!

2x7970 for 4K? I wouldn't try it I think that's enough graphics power for 2560x1440 but not more. 5K would be even worse.
UPDATE: I didn't notice that you don't play graphically intensive games so it might be ok for you.

 

[uclaLabrat]

Oh that will be a wait for sure,as beast as it would be imagine the system needed for it today.:awe: Didn't 1440p just come out with IPS@120hz?Or wasn't that led?Maybe it was 144hz? You could sell tickets today to a show where the masters of the impossible power a 4k 120hz IPS gaming rig.:biggrin:

Perhaps when such a monitor is released,there would be enough gpu power where sli mid range cards could pull off powering such a monitor.

We'll have all that as soon as OLEDs hit...OLED refresh rate is like 1000 fps or thereabouts.

 

[SirCanealot]

We'll have all that as soon as OLEDs hit...OLED refresh rate is like 1000 fps or thereabouts.

Unfortunately they're not that perfect yet.

OLED displays on phones still run at 60hz and still suffer from a little motion blur. Although, they did manage to clock the Note 3 display to 75hz for the Oculus Rift 2, which was quite promising!

But yes, I'm said there's still no OLED monitors on the horizon, but my BenQ BL3200 at least has decent contrast ratios...

 

[Black Octagon]

Unfortunately they're not that perfect yet.



OLED displays on phones still run at 60hz and still suffer from a little motion blur. Although, they did manage to clock the Note 3 display to 75hz for the Oculus Rift 2, which was quite promising!
...

You are correct, though my suspicion is that this is because they haven't till now been engineering panels for phones to have high refresh rates as a key feature. Maybe that's naive optimism on my part, but still...

 

[uclaLabrat]

Unfortunately they're not that perfect yet.

OLED displays on phones still run at 60hz and still suffer from a little motion blur. Although, they did manage to clock the Note 3 display to 75hz for the Oculus Rift 2, which was quite promising!

But yes, I'm said there's still no OLED monitors on the horizon, but my BenQ BL3200 at least has decent contrast ratios...

Yeah, I saw one of the new TVs (I think it was the 55" LG...yeah it is, check link below) had a refresh rate of 120 Hz...I thought that was weird. Turns out I was wrong on the native refresh rate, I thought it was 1000 fps, but the wiki page rated them at .0001 s, so 10,000 fps? Pretty impressive.

I'm guessing the electronics driving it will have to be upgraded or adapted, but 240 Hz screens should be no problem, and I can't imagine needing anything faster than that.

http://www.displaymate.com/LG_OLED_TV_ShootOut_1.htm

That site has a pretty good run down of the technical specs of the LG monitor, including a pretty impressive demonstration of the motion blur (or lack thereof).

 

[Black Octagon]

OLED monitors can't come fast enough to the consumer space. Shame that LG's attentions seem very focused on TVs for now