4K monitors are common these days, and 8K monitors are readily available. However, it comes with a steep price tag (Dell UltraSharp 32 8K monitor costs him just over $4,000). But of course, as BOE’s latest product proves, you can’t just settle for an 8K resolution display. The Chinese display giant showed up at his Display Week 2023, showcasing his massive 110-inch display with an astounding 16K resolution.
To put this resolution into perspective, 8K is 7680 x 4320, while 16K bumps that up to 15360 x 8640. That is 132.7 million pixels compared to 33.2 million pixels for 8K resolution and 8.3 million pixels for 4K resolution. Pushing that many pixels, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the BOE’s display refresh rate is only 60Hz.
According to BOE, if you have room for a 110-inch display on your living room wall, you’ll get up to 400 nits of brightness and a 1,200:1 contrast ratio, which is about average for an IPS panel. Additionally, the 16K display covers 99% of the DCI-P3 color gamut.
We didn’t have any hands-on experience with BOE displays, but Vincent TheoThe person who took the image at the top of the page said they couldn’t see the pixels when looking at the display up close. This would match his BOE claim that the 16K display offers “extremely high resolution beyond the retina.”
Pushing serious fps at 16K resolution in games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Microsoft before getting the idea to hook this monitor up to a bold AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU Probably not. flight simulator. Considering that at 16K resolution he’s scraping 16 times as many pixels as at 4K resolution, the previously fluid frame rate could drop into slideshow territory.
It should also be pointed out that BOE’s 16K is just a prototype unit built to wow crowds at Display Week 2023. It will be many years before such a product is ready for large-scale production.
