Dell Working on 21:9 Cinema Display with 3440x1440 Resolution

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"Dell will release a Cinema Display with 3440x1440 Resolution in a 21:9 ultra-wide aspect-ratio.
The guys over at Expreview have uncovered Dell's plans for a 34-inch display.

The new U3415W from Dell offers a native resolution of 3440 x 1440 it's still 40 percent lower pixel count than Ultra HD.

The U3415W reportedly features an IPS LCD panel made by LG.

The display should offer a decent middle-ground between currently $400-ish 27-inch WQHD monitors,
and four-figure >30-inch Ultra-HD ones taking shape. Via TPU and Expreview."

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Some people have been screaming for something like this. A 21:9 display with a good bit of height (and suitably high resolution). Will be nice to test this one out, but as for buying price will indeed be key.
 
PCM2 said:
Some people have been screaming for something like this. A 21:9 display with a good bit of height (and suitably high resolution). Will be nice to test this one out, but as for buying price will indeed be key.
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Guilty as charged :P


Yes i am interested as i feel extra wide is the future but i would have liked more pixels i think and them to keep the size to 29" or 30". Dell are really on a roll now though its just a shame none of them support GSYNC. Its a lot of money to drop down when you do not know if you can still justify res alone when 240hz and Gsync are floating around.


Good times coming! :cool:
 
This sounds like it maybe the perfect upgrade from my dell 27" if the price is not too stupid..

As it should be roughly about the height size as my 27" and just much wider.....;)
 
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What do people think this will be like for gaming?

I've been hearing a lot of endorsement for the current 21:9 monitors, being able to take advantage of the wider field of view.

Also, with pixel count being 40% lower than 4K perhaps this is more realistic for current GPUs? Although I guess there are a lot more factors at play here, input lag etc.
 
Well as a dell 21:9 current 2560x1080 owner who loves it, this is probably the monitor I reaaaalllly want.
The GPU power is way off for a while though I think. Partly why I went for this 2560x1080 over a 2560 x 1440 monitor was the performance problem. I tried my SLI 670's on a 2560x1440 monitor and they really couldn't cope for 60fps gaming at max settings. They just about cope on this Dell 21:9.
Much less pixels to push around and for this yet to be released bigger version the significant reduction comapred to 4k res will also be a boon
 
wunkley said:
Well as a dell 21:9 current 2560x1080 owner who loves it, this is probably the monitor I reaaaalllly want.
The GPU power is way off for a while though I think. Partly why I went for this 2560x1080 over a 2560 x 1440 monitor was the performance problem. I tried my SLI 670's on a 2560x1440 monitor and they really couldn't cope for 60fps gaming at max settings. They just about cope on this Dell 21:9.
Much less pixels to push around and for this yet to be released bigger version the significant reduction comapred to 4k res will also be a boon
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I had a 2560x1440 monitor with a gtx670 and found it just about had enough grunt but I don't mind framerates below 60, anything above 30 I am comfortable with. I couldn't use any AA most of the time but at that resolution it wasn't exactly a deal breaker.

2560x1080 is far easier to run though, can use max settings with my gtx670 with 2/4xMSAA. I'm not a bf4 or online fps gamer though so I'm not fussed with fps below 60 :)

PPI will increase going from a 29" 2560x1080 to one of these 34" monsters. 95.81 vs 109.68.

Please please please please price this panel reasonably............
 
Oh man, one of the reasons I've held off on the 29" is the lack of vertical pixels compared to the 27in models. Hopefully the price is reasonable, having a super wide POV is amazing for racing games.
 
Im sort of getting cold feet again as i have been thinking over this monitor in the last few days. Even though i whined for ages about a higher res or higher hertz 21:9 monitor Dell still managed to fudge it up by making it IPS and not going for the full 4000 pixels. They should have went for the DCI 4K CinemaScope cropped specification which would have been 4096 × 1714 with 7,020,544 pixels.


Firstly is the inherant nature of IPS and Dell using that grainy AG coating which might just kill off the high PPI. And speaking of PPI that is my second gripe which is my 20" 1080p panel offers around 91PPI and this version is still only 109 PPI. Compare this to the 24" 4K panel with 180PPI you start to wonder just how sharp or how much of a boost a normal user of a Dell panel will actually achieve. Maybe this panel like its smaller brother can be overclocked to 72 hertz as well which might make me rethink as 72hz is really nice on judder for film content. Other than that it for me is the 4k 24" and its retina PPI or this 34" 21:9 ratio and i would only be buying it for that aspect ratio. An aspect ratio that still leaves me with some games lacking 21:9 option.
 
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wunkley said:
Well as a dell 21:9 current 2560x1080 owner who loves it, this is probably the monitor I reaaaalllly want.
The GPU power is way off for a while though I think. Partly why I went for this 2560x1080 over a 2560 x 1440 monitor was the performance problem. I tried my SLI 670's on a 2560x1440 monitor and they really couldn't cope for 60fps gaming at max settings. They just about cope on this Dell 21:9.
Much less pixels to push around and for this yet to be released bigger version the significant reduction comapred to 4k res will also be a boon
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This is a VRAM and memory bandwidth issue related to the GTX600s and GTX770 than it is GPU performance.

4k isn't as demanding as people are making out, and the performance falloff through increased resolution is not linearly linked to the increase in percentage.

For example, 2560x1440 has twice the pixels as 1920x1080 but performance is not cut in half when running at 2560x1440 compared to 1920x1080 when memory quantity and bandwidth isn't crippled.
 
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