These days 4K monitors are common, and 8K monitors are readily available, albeit at exorbitant prices (Dell’s UltraSharp 32 8K monitor costs just over $4k). But of course, you can’t settle for “just” an 8K resolution display, as BOE's latest creation demonstrates. The Chinese display giant was at Display Week 2023 and showcased an enormous 110-inch screen with an astonishing 16K resolution.
To put that resolution in perspective, 8K is 7680 x 4320, whereas 16K raises it to 15360 x 8640. That's 132.7 million pixels versus 33.2 million pixels for an 8K resolution and 8.3 million pixels for a 4K resolution. With so many pixels to push, it’s no surprise that BOE's screen only has a refresh rate of 60 Hz.
If you could find space for a 110-inch screen on your living room wall, BOE says it will be subject to a maximum brightness of 400 nits and a 1,200:1 contrast ratio, which is nearly average for an IPS panel. Additionally, the 16K screen covers 99% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut.
Although we don’t have hands-on experience with BOE's display, Vincent_Teoh, who captured the image at the top of the page, said that the pixels were not visible even when looking closely at the screen. This would match BOE's claim that its 16K screen offers “extremely high resolution beyond the retina."
Now, before you think about connecting this monitor to your AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor backed by an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, you probably won't be able to push serious fps at a 16K resolution in games like Cyberpunk 2077 or Microsoft Flight Simulator. Since it's processing 16 times more pixels at a 16K resolution than at 4K, those smooth frame rates are likely to fall into slideshow territory.
We should also note that BOE's 16K is just a prototype unit built to impress crowds at Display Week 2023; we are still years away from a viable mass-produced product.
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