Dell has officially launched the first 8K monitor at $5000, but think carefully about pulling the trigger on this kind of display just yet.
It’s only been a few short years since the first 4K panels hit store shelves, and now we’ve got an 8K display you can purchase as well. This is a stunning panel for people who do a particular kind of work in photo or video editing. It boasts full coverage of the SRGB, Adobe RGB, and Rec. 709 gamuts, and 98% of the DCI-P3 professional gamut. 8K support is only driven via 2x DisplayPort 1.4 ports (making this explicitly an MST product) and its maximum brightness of 400 nits is fairly standard for the industry as well. But it’s not necessarily the kind of panel you should spring for just yet, for reasons we’ll discuss.
In many ways, the new UP3218K reminds us of the UP2414Q we reviewed nearly three years ago. The color reproduction and general feature set of that display wowed us, even back then, but the 24-inch screen was simply too small for realistic 4K use. The 31.5-inch Dell UP3218K might seem slightly more roomy. But remember — stepping from 4K to 8K quadruples pixel counts, it doesn’t double them.
