Comment by rsanheim
5 years ago
Now if only someone made a 34” ultra wide with 120Hz+. In particular one with 5120 x 2160 resolution. Maybe in 2022 at the rate high hertz monitors are coming for non-gaming uses...
5 years ago
Now if only someone made a 34” ultra wide with 120Hz+. In particular one with 5120 x 2160 resolution. Maybe in 2022 at the rate high hertz monitors are coming for non-gaming uses...
I agree. I'd rather hi-dpi 32"+ monitors first though. Hidpi displays are becoming standard on top-end laptops but on desktop you're almost out of luck.
It's wild that the only hidpi 32" monitor is ~$5000, and it was released a few years ago now.
My eyeballs need that sweet crisp text.
What are you calling "hi-dpi"? There's a ton of 4k monitors in the 27" to 32" range, which are definitely higher DPI than typical. And for a lot less than $5000.
I'm typing this on a 4k, 32" monitor, which is 137.68 DPI, but I also have a Dell XPS 15, which is 4K and 15", 293.72 DPI, and the difference in sharpness is astounding.
The other problem with hidpi scaling (200%) at 4k 32", is that everything is huge, and you lose a lot of screen real estate.
Honestly I think 8k 36" is the sweet spot.
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It's that you have to go to such a larger screen size. I just upgraded my monitor from a 1080p. I really wanted a 24" @ 4k for higher dpi and crispness. Practically impossible to find, despite being common on laptops with much smaller screens. I had to go up to 27" instead, which is still crisp, though not as much, and larger than I wanted for the space it's in.
I need both 4K and 120/144Hz on 32inch but it's not available now. Maybe soon.
There was some really dark times around 2002 to 2012 where good CRTs became unavailable and almost every LCD screen was "HD" meaning 1080p. Still at the tail end of these times, I guess.
I suppose my lack of age here is obvious, but what made the CRTs better? Presumably they weren’t outputting any more pixels than LCDs were?
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Monitors like LG27GL850 are 1440p 144hz with great color repro. Not ultra-wide, but ultra-wide is not something I personally value
I currently use multiple monitors, and apparently nobody at Apple HQ uses a monitor in portrait mode. Catalina routinely forgets the monitor is portrait and requires manually changing it back _every time the machine is locked_.
Why is this relevant? I'm seriously considering a 1440p 32:9 240hz Samsung G9 so that I can ditch multiple monitors and move to a single display with similar overall screen space just to dodge pesky multi-screen bugs like this. Just docking my laptop and using a massive screen would be SO NICE!
Only thing that's holding me back is I really want 2160p tall in that form factor. Will probably need to wait for DisplayPort2.0
And now the Dell Alienware AW2721D which has 240 Hz https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/alienware-27-gaming-monitor-...
I personally can't stand the ultrawides. OS support for a huge monitor just isn't where I'd want it to be. Sure I can install applications to handle window management better and whatnot, but even trivial things like fullscreen video don't work well at all.
I'm a huge fan of the LG27GN950. 4k 144hz glory.
There are plenty of ultra-wide monitors with greater than 120Hz refresh. Just not with the resolution you are asking for.
Or at the size you are looking for.
Samsung 49-Inch CHG90 144Hz
It's a 49 inch, so not the same PPI. Different aspect ration too (32:9, so 5120x1440).
I'm seeing a resolution of 3840 X 1080 for that monitor?
https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/gaming/49--chg...
Thats a PPI of something like 80, which may be fine for gaming but is not at all comparable to the high PPI monitors discussed here.
There's a 2x1080p version for $750 and a 2x1440p version for $999 (CRG90)
This is pretty close - https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/gaming/49--ody...
5120x1440 | 240 Hz
I'm looking for something similar, but not ultrawide. There's plenty of 27" 4k 100Hz+ monitors, but not the same in 30-36" sizes. I have 3x 24" monitors, and would like to replace one or two of them with one bigger screen that's higher resolution and faster.
Yeah I'm on an iMac Pro (which is the same display as the 27" iMacs) as my main display at its pretty glorious with 218 PPI. My older 34" ultra wide next to it is really showing its age, both in terms of overall quality and 110 PPI. The newer LG 34" that is 5K2K is not horrible at 164 psi.
If Apple just sold there 27" display for 1500 bucks or something they would make a killing for folks who want a really nice pro display but don't need the overkill of the Pro Display XDR.
My current dream monitor is a 42inch 3840x2400 or 7680x4800 - 120hz screen. I love the 16:10 aspect ratio and real estate of a monitor like that. I’m currently running 3 24inch monitors in portrait mode, so 3600x1920
I am still mad that all display vendors went 16:9. The black bars are fine when watching movies if you mostly use the display for productive work, whereas 4:3->16:9 was a shitty transition for someone like me working mostly with text and written music. It was as if the world had decided that the use case for computer screens was something else than what I was using them for. Although I do costume some video content on my computer today, I would switch to a high-res 4:3 display instantly.
A 27" 4000x3000 display would be a dream come true.
I'm waiting for the same thing. Hoping LG actually has this in the works, as their current 34" 5120 x 2160 has been out of stock for a while now, and they make a bunch of other high refresh rate displays.
I am also going to be buying one of these as soon as they hit the market.
The LG 38GN950-B [0] gets close. 3840x1600 so not quite your wanted resolution but close - enough to fit most 4K movies if you remove the black bars. Personally I am hoping someone will make an OLED with this format.
[0] https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-38gn950-b-gaming-monitor
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I doubt you'll find any gaming monitors at that resolution for a while. The newest Nvidia GPUs can't hit high enough frame rates at 4k to utilize 120Hz.
Why do you need 120Hz+ for productivity?
1. With DLSS 2.0 you can get 120+ fps in a lot of things on the 3080 @ 4k
2. No one need do anything except die, but shaving a few ms of response time is nice for productivity. No one thing is critical but making sure you have a keyboard, mouse, monitor, refresh rate, and programs that aren't throwing latency out the window makes for an overall nice feeling system.
My understanding is that if you aren't gaming (i.e. most of the content on your screen is static) your GPU is smart enough not to redraw the entire frame so you can probably get very low latency refreshes.
Even without DLSS, this isn’t necessarily true. My 3080 has no problems pegging some recent games at 144-160 fps at the corresponding refresh rate. In fact, I’m generally CPU bottlenecked at 1440p or below.