Getting 8K displays to work with Windows 10 PCs can be difficult, as Dell is finding out.
But playing with 8K on PCs is a discovery process for Dell, which shipped the first-ever 8K display -- the Dell 32 UltraSharp 8K Monitor -- last week. The small initial stock of the $5,000 display sold out in a few days.
The display won't work on all PCs and needs specific hardware and display ports. But Dell is finding out that more hardware than it originally thought can handle 8K graphics, including AMD's Radeon Pro WX 7100 workstation GPU.
The 32-inch display shows images at a resolution of 7680 x 4320 pixels. The monitor shows stunning colors and features 33.2 million pixels and more than a billion colors.
But being first to market has its own shortcomings. The display has a 60Hz refresh rate, not enough for gaming or fast-moving video because new frames draw slowly. The monitor is mainly aimed at applications like image manipulation, engineering, and space exploration, where static and deeper images matter more.
Dell willingly admits that this monitor isn't for everyone or for all PCs. But the company is learning more as it works with GPUs, connectors, PC configurations, and drivers.
There is only a handful of GPUs that support 8K. In early demonstrations of the monitor, Dell used a workstation with Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card. AMD's Polaris-based Radeon Pro WX 7100 workstation GPU can now be added to the small list of GPUs supporting the 8K monitor, said Michael Turner, manager for monitor products at Dell.
The 8K monitor has two DisplayPort 1.4 ports, and both need to hooked up to a PC to support the full 8K resolution. A single DisplayPort connection won't a
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