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U2711 1.07 billion colours?

Try emailing dell. Will you actually nitice a difference though? Even if ut could only use 500,000,000 colours it would most likely be good enough. Ask yourself if it is worth the extra money upgrading monitor/gpu.
 
Cleeecooo said:
Try emailing dell. Will you actually nitice a difference though? Even if ut could only use 500,000,000 colours it would most likely be good enough. Ask yourself if it is worth the extra money upgrading monitor/gpu.
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I did not buy a U2711 or GTX 570 because I am desperate for 1.07 billion colours.

The 'extra money' you are talking about, I paid for to get more performance and a better quality panel with higher resolution. The monitor was only 35% off Dell's RRP. £570 delivered.

U3011 (2560*1600) £1200

HP ZR30w (2560*1600) £1000

Hazro HZ30w (2560*1600) £800 < I really wanted this but it was slightly out of my budget.

Apple 27" (2560*1440) £850

I think the monitor was a pretty good deal for anyone in the market for a monitor of that spec.

I am looking to see if I can take advantage of some feature that came with the monitor, not to see if this feature was a good basis for my purchase.
 
kylew said:
To answer your question Cythx, you need displayport to get the 10bit colour processing.
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Thank you (: I thought this would be the case.

Is there any perceivable difference between 16.7 mil and 1.07 bil colours for most people? I don't want to be missing out on much if I can just get a 6970 instead.
 
I've heard that it's noticeable and quite nice, but I haven't seen it myself.
 
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Mr Krugga said:
HDMI 1.3 onwards does support it indeed :)
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but the monitor doesn't support native resolution with HDMI :(

you'll need a professional video card as far as i can remember. i've had 5870 hooked up using displayport, and it won't display 10 bit colours, at least i couldn't find option to do it.

shame that dual-link DVI does not support 10 bit colour.
 
wuyanxu said:
but the monitor doesn't support native resolution with HDMI :(

you'll need a professional video card as far as i can remember. i've had 5870 hooked up using displayport, and it won't display 10 bit colours, at least i couldn't find option to do it.

shame that dual-link DVI does not support 10 bit colour.
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I'm pretty sure the 5870 does not support 10 bit colour. This is a limitation of the card.
 
"Support for HDMI 1.4a including GPU accelerated Blu-ray 3D support, x.v.Color, HDMI Deep Color, and 7.1 digital surround sound."

Is written under 'features' for all the GTX 5xx cards, so I'm pretty sure I am safe.
 
Cythx said:
Thank you (: I thought this would be the case.

Is there any perceivable difference between 16.7 mil and 1.07 bil colours for most people? I don't want to be missing out on much if I can just get a 6970 instead.
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You're not. Your monitor can't even display 1.07 billion colours, its an 8 bit panel with dithering. Marketing strikes again I'm afraid. Just stick with 16.7, its nothing like the jump from 6bit to 8bit.
 
Where did you find this monitor cannot display 1 billion colours? The product page says it does 1 billion colours, I don't see how it could be viewed any other way like the ambiguousness of saying a monitor is capable of 10 bit colour.

'Incredible performance & clarity: Enjoy up to 2560 x 1440 (WQHD) resolution, 1.07 billion colors' are they just lieing about the resolution and colour, or just the colour?

'Besides having a higher color gamut and different backlighting technology, Dell uses 12-bit internal color processing with the ability to output 10-bit color. That means you can get 1024 levels of grey instead of just 256, reducing the amount of banding present in certain situations. 24-bit vs. 30-bit color also means you get a color palette of 1.07 billion instead of 16.7 million' - Anandtech
 
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2 x NO.
First no is because GTX 570 doesn't support 30-bit output. See Quadro (FX/CX) series.
Second no because you would need special software to render 30-bit colour picture. It's not like just connect and see.
So if you haven't heard about 30-bit software, it means you simply don't need it.

BTW, the human eye can distinguish about 10 million colors (of course, there are better and worse eyes):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye
 
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