I may have the opportunity to upgrade my home office from dual 42" 4K panels to a single 8K panel. Actually, the two 42" won’t fit as my new space is limited to a 72" maximum total width so it’s drop to one monitor or go big. I’ll be moving my gaming rig into the office so gaming performance will matter but probably only a couple hours a week vs 50 hours of CAD and office apps.
Although the easy answer is to grab the Samsung QN900C, it’s realistically more than I want to pay. I’m curious if anyone can say that there’s any day-to-day difference between the 900C flagship and either the 800C (or last year’s 800B) while I’m out looking for deals this week. I’m currently disregarding the 57" dual 4k gaming monitor due to the curve (it would obscure half my desk).
Definitely make sure your GPU supports 8k at reasonable refresh rates before buying anything. During the early days of 4k, monitor makers would get a lot of unhappy customers who learned the hard way that their macbook only does 4k at 30hz.
Thanks. I remember wondering about that on my last major upgrade over a decade ago. I’ve currently got a 3070, which isn’t going to be doing any 8k native gaming for sure, but will run my office apps at 8k/60.
I admit the resolution seems a wee bit ridiculous for most things, but I work in architecture and regularly need to cross reference 2 or 3 D size/A1 prints simultaneously. 8k wide lets me (just barely) read fine print on two sets without zooming in, but even 30 Hz is perfectly acceptable. First world problems…