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).
I think going from dual 4k monitors to a single monitor will be a big downgrade for multitasking, no matter the resolution.
Also, gaming in 8k is complete nonsense at the moment. Even if there existed a gpu with enough performance, you’re limited to 8k60 at most by hdmi 2.1. You might notice the resolution if you have a huge screen very close to you but you’d definitely notice the huge refresh rate downgrade to 60 instead of 120.
Is it even possible to do 8k VRR?
Maybe you could have two monitors above each other?
Samsung QN TVs do VRR up to 144Hz (with a 4k input signal) and up to 60Hz with an 8K signal.
I intend to partition the screen into three zones - a status monitor in the bottom 400-500 pixels (newsfeed, media player, fancy clock), a 2100-2400 pixel high working space in the middle, and a planning and notification band at the top 1000 pixels for calendar, email, phone, tasks. Gaining a 7600 pixel wide workspace without a middle (or 1/3) bezels will be explicitly valuable for my workflow, especially since I’m working with large-format (A1) PDFs on a regular basis.
WRT refresh rate, high refresh in office work is highly overrated. For or 3-4 years I ran dual 4k/30Hz for office work off of a Surface Pro tablet and - for office and CAD tasks at a viewing distance of 36" - the experience was indistinguishable from running at 60Hz. 100ppi at 36" viewing distance (my desk) is about the limit of my usable acuity* and a good target for me. I can see jaggies in single pixel lines of moderate intensity (grays) on black backgrounds (most of my CAD work). They mostly disappear with bright lines (bleed) and are invisible in black on white (word processing and PDF documents) and full color (photos).
* not too surprising , really, since 100ppi @ 36" is 1 arcminute resolution, or close to 20/20 vision.