Dell Unveils 24- and 27-Inch 4K Monitors with Affordable Prices

In today's world, displays with 4K UHD resolution are in large part bigger than 30-40 inches in diameter, and have prices of thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. That is why any screen below 30 inches and with an affordable price will get recognition early on.

Dell has done both the world and itself a favor by releasing the P2415Q and P2715Q 4K monitors, both of which use IPS panels.

With screen diagonals of 24 inches and 27 inches, respectively, they are among the smallest Ultra High Definition displays in the world.

So if you're not the sort of person who likes to play games in full detail on multiple screens, either one of these two will allow your new NVIDIA or AMD graphics card to use all its resources fully. Then again, the two displays aren't aimed at gamers, not with response times of 8 ms and 9 ms.

The Dell 24-inch 2415Q and 27-inch 2715Q IPS 4K monitors

They probably use 8-bit panels dithered to display a billion colors (1.07 billion to be precise), instead of true 10-bit panels that would have increased the price beyond the “affordable” barrier.

Dell doesn't really say one way or another in the blog post where it introduced the products. Either way, 1.07 billion colors is a good number. The native resolution is of 3840 x 2160 pixels, obviously.

99 percent sRGB coverage is ensured out of the box, along with near perfect color calibration according to the company.

Also, the viewing angles are of 178 degrees, thanks to the use of IPS panel technology instead of TN (in-plane switching versus twisted nematic).

You should be able to view 4K media files, like films, easily enough, or use the monitor for graphic design at your home away from home.

You can even daisy-chain multiple displays through the DisplayPort 1.2 in/out connectors, as well as HDMI (MHL supported) and four USB 3.0 ports.

This means that it is, in theory, possible to create video walls using the 2415Q and 2715Q. Not much use until NVIDIA and AMD make graphics cards capable of 8K resolution perhaps, but multi-card setups and good enough PCs could provide a serious multi-tasking potential on wall-mounted display setups.

Finally, the refresh rate is 60 Hz. Not the best, but some sacrifices had to be made in favor of affordability, as we said.