BOE: 16K displays

2023: Product Announcement

On May 24, 2023, the Chinese company BOE introduced the world's first 110-inch display, which has a resolution of 16K. The novelty provides the image of the highest definition.

The panel has a resolution of 15 360×8640 pixels. For comparison: screens of the 8K standard have a resolution of 7680×4320 points, and 4K - 3840×2160 pixels. Thus, in the case of the new BOE, the total number of points reaches 132.7 million against 33.2 million for 8K displays and 8.3 million for 4K matrices. In other words, a 16-fold increase in the total number of pixels is provided compared to the 4K panels that modern TVs are equipped with. And in the case of conventional Full HD displays (1920×1080 pixels), 64 times the growth is achieved.

16K display

The advanced development of BOE has a brightness of 400 cd per square meter and a contrast ratio of 1200:1. Claimed 99 percent DCI-P3 color space coverage. The refresh rate is limited to 60 Hz due to ultra-high resolution. It is noted that individual pixels on the 16K display are indistinguishable even from a very close distance. BOE itself says that the detail that a new screen allows is superior to the capabilities of the human eye.

At the same time, Tom's Hardware resource emphasizes that there is no computer equipment on the consumer market that could provide acceptable frame rate indicators on a 16K screen. Moreover, even the flagship Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics accelerator is designed for maximum image resolution in 7680×4320 dots. Another question when using the novelty is related to the availability of the corresponding content: it will take a lot of time to form a library of materials with this resolution. In addition, the cost of the 16K panel will be very high, although BOE does not disclose specific figures.^[1]

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