Samsung Releases 28-inch 4k Monitor and it’s Only $700

Updated: April 3, 2014

2014 is said to be the year of 4K, but will it be the year of 4K for you? Maybe it’s time to start thinking about going 4K because Samsung has announced that their 28-inch 4K UD590 monitor will soon hit U.S. shelves for only $700.

The UD590 is a 28-inch monitor with a resolution of 3840×2160 (4K), featuring a TN panel and pushing 157 PPI. It is capable of displaying 10-bit color, or 1 billion colors, which, in theory, would result in precise color accuracy. It has a 60Hz refresh rate paired with a 1ms GTG response time, for all you gamers out there.

The 28-inch 4K panel has seen the spotlight in South Korea for a couple months now, but Samsung is ready to send it to U.S. shores. Simply put, the UD590 has a minimal, yet elegant, design. It has silver and black bezels that look quite classy. Since we are in 2014, there are no DVI connectors to be found, rather; two HDMI connectors and a lone DisplayPort (which is required to run the native 4K resolution at the 60Hz refresh rate).

Let’s clear the air a bit about the 10-bit TN panel. There are two primary technologies in LCD displays today: TN and IPS. TN has the advantage of being faster and cheaper while IPS boasts much wider viewing angles. What makes this Samsung monitor unique is that it has 10-bit color at a $700 price point. Usually one would have to spend well over $1000 on an IPS monitor for this billion-color feature, but here, Samsung is offering 10-bit on a TN monitor, which is quite special.

However, before buying this, or any, 4K monitor, you have to think: is it worth it? 4K usually comes with a huge price tag and having such a high resolution may look UI elements in your OS of choice look a bit too small for your taste. And if you’re looking to game at 4K, get ready to buy some wallet-draining Titans. 4K makes a great amount of sense for designers and professional photographers, and with Samsung’s 10-bit support, it would be ideal for the creative folks out there.

At this point in time it’s probably better to save some dough and go 1440p, but there’s that geek inside me, and all of us, that wants to press that darn buy-now button while salivating over 4K glory.

Source: Extreme Tech

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Fumbles

But the 60Hz refresh rate tho….
- Preston Oneal
  
  it’s 4K at a relatively cheap price, what do you expect?
xgrrrio

Overclock the montior, guessing it can reach at least 80Hz.
- Kasper
  
  How the heck can you overclock monitors?
  - Hassassin
    
    It’s not that hard really. You make a custom resolution with more hz.
wiigamer136

Not IPS… LAME!
- James Edmonds
  
  Still 4k, 60hz, 10-bit colour, 1ms GTG AWESOME.
  
  The only disadvantage this has now is colour accuracy and viewing angles.
  (P.S. idk why we don’t have IPS 1080p @ 120hz yet, with the ability to puch 4k at 60 with IPS you’d think it’d be easy.)
  - Kasper
    
    Before I ever buy a 4k monitor for gaming, they need to improve refresh hertz. about 120Hz minimum.
Hassassin

When 4k OLED sits at 700ish USD i’ll buy in
- James Edmonds
  
  What’s the difference between WLED and OLED? How do I know If I have one and why are they so highly valued?
  
  I have a VG248qe which has LED backlight and it has 3D mode that flickers and when not calibrated it’s slightly blue.
  - Hassassin
    
    Wled is just led… Oled is another tech…Oled is MUCH better
Dex

3840×2160… where is 4K here? It is definitely almost-4K
- Bill
  
  For some reason, 3840 is close enough to 4000 (or 4096) that it’s defined as a 4k resolution… Much like 1080p (1920 wide) is called 2k, as well as 2048*1152 also being called 2k… Wikipedia it for more.
- catalyst
  
  it is called 4k because it is 4, 1920×1080 pannels in a square
Paul

I’ll stick to 3 27″ monitors for now, but when GFX cards can power it i’ll be looking at 3 way 4k gaming
- kasper
  
  Get ready to get wall drained…
James Edmonds

Just a note: GTG is the pixel response time NOT the input lag. (E.G. the time taken for a pixel to change from one colour to another. (2ms and above cause ghosting)

Aside from that… HOLY MOLY A TN PANEL WITH 100bit COLOURS!

PRAISE THE MACHINE GOD!
Vickitor

4K is a DCI standard for movie presentation in theaters. This TV standard is called UHDTV and is 2 times the Vertical resolution of FullHD that being up to 1080p resolution. And thus it should be referred to as 2160p.