Dell UP3218K 31.5-inch 8K Monitor Now Available for Pre-order

While all of the tech and gaming enthusiasts are squabbling about the best 4K monitor in the market, the people at Dell recently leapfrogged the entire industry and introduced to the world their latest monitor, the Dell UP3218K. As the last two characters in the name suggest, the new Dell monitor is officially the first ever 8K desktop monitor in the world.

The company unveiled their new Dell UP3218K monitor at the recently held 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) event back in January. However, a report from PC World reveals that the company has now made the stunningly beautiful monitor available for pre-order on their website. Dell's official website reveals that the extremely expensive $5,000 8K monitor will start shipping on April 17.

Other display manufacturers, such as Apple and Samsung, may have been surprised by Dell's move in releasing an 8K monitor to the public. Of course, there is a very good reason why other companies have not made that leap yet. The Dell UP3218K is undoubtedly a beast of a monitor, however, the media devices and PCs that is needed to run it remains to be quite unreachable to most of the public.

The Dell UP3218K sports a 31-inch IPS panel that churns out a whopping 7680x4320 pixel resolution, resulting in a pixel density of 279 pixels per inch. That figure is even higher than Apple's iMac 5K display, which is only able to churn out 217 pixels per inch. To put in into perspective, the Dell UP3218K has 16 times the resolution of a typical full HD 1080p display.

In order to properly take advantage of the ridiculously high pixel density display, the monitor requires two DisplayPort 1.3 inputs to properly output the appropriately sized images and videos. The monitor itself uses a high-end Nvidia Quadro GPU just to turn it on, as per GSM Arena.

The Dell UP3218K 8K monitor is currently still marketed to be for professionals, but it is a step in the right direction. Other manufacturers will undoubtedly follow suit, and the rest of the tech world will likely have to catch up to take advantage of it.