I got rid of my dual monitor setup andreplaced it with a single Ultrawide 21:9 monitor.īut what is “serious business”? Well for starters 2560 pixels can fit three Microsoft Office pages comfortably.
You end up dragging windows back to your primary screens, physically moving or having a hard time viewing stuff. This means centering in front of one of the displays which makes the other screen distant. After all, staring at the bezel seems a bit silly. For example the bezels take up unnecessary space and prevent me from sitting in the middle of my screens. However, I have always had some issues with this setup. The last years I have been using a dual monitor setup. It allows you to multitask and compare stuff more easily. Having extra width can be a nice addition for serious business. The advantages of Ultrawide monitorsĭepending on your workload Ultrawide actually makes a lot of sense. Even then I would rather see that power used for photo realistic imaging meaning better shaders, higher quality textures, better lightning, better reflections, etc. Ultra HD is 359% more demanding! I strongly doubt increasing your graphic card load by 300%+ will be viable any time soon. Now compare these differences to Ultra HD which features 3840×2160 (8.29 million pixels) and you probably agree with me. These increases are still reasonable to me. The older 1680×1050 resolution with 16:10 aspect ratio has 1.7 million pixels making Ultrawide 57% more demanding. Therefore Ultrawide requires roughly 20% more processing power.
The 2560×1080 pixels has 2.765 million pixels, Full HD has 2.304 million pixels. Keep in mind that more pixels always result in a heavier load on you graphics card. (Complicated alert: it is the third power of 4:3, where 16:9 of traditional HDTV is 4:3 squared). Although it might seem weird at first it is the logical extension of the existing video aspect ratios 4:3 and 16:9. In reality we are talking about 21 1/3 rd : 9. Keep in mind that the term “21:9” is actually a marketing term.
Because it has an identical height, traditional 16:9 content can be displayed perfectly without distortion. The new 21:9 aspect ratio matches most modern movies. The amount of vertical space is identical. This makes Ultrawide screens significantly wider compared to more traditional “Full HD” screens that use a 16:9 aspect ratio. The most popular 21:9 resolution seems to be 2560×1080 pixels and is officially named UW-UXGA. Somewhere in 2013 the monitor industry introduced a new aspect ratio that was branded Ultrawide. Let’s do a review! 21:9 Ultrawide monitor, what is all that about? I recently purchased a rather large LG 29 inch 21:9 Ultrawide monitor and have been using it for a week. You can now buy them in the sub 250 dollar (€195) segment. Ultrawide 21:9 monitors have been around for a few years but only recently they became affordable.