Dell P2815Q review

Dell made all the headlines when news of its affordable 4K monitor surfaced in this year’s CES trade show, and now the Dell P2815Q has fially arrived in the UK. With a 28in 4K panel housed in a typically smart two-tone monitor chassis, the P2815Q has its closest rival, the Asus PB287Q, firmly in its crosshairs. See also: The 9 best monitors from £200 to £2,000

Dell P2815Q review: Features & Design

Just like its Asus-branded competitor, the Dell P2815Q mounts a 28in, 3,840 x 2,160 TN panel atop an adjustable stand. The attractive, curvaceous chassis swivels left and right, tilts round into portrait mode and rises up and down by 115mm.

Connectivity is solid, too, and the P2815Q touts DisplayPort, mini-DisplayPort, an MHL-compatible HDMI port, a DisplayPort output for daisy-chaining a second display and a four-port USB 3 hub.

Dell P2815Q review: Image quality

Straight out of the box, the Dell P2815Q’s image quality looks pretty similar to the Asus, if not marginally better. Brightness peaked at 290cd/m[sup]2[/sup], contrast reached a solid 882:1 and colour temperature measured at a perfect 6504k. To the naked eye, colours looked just a touch lighter on the Dell, but it was a slight difference. We’re convinced that the Dell and the Asus are using a very similar, if not identical TN panel.

The X-Rite colorimeter wasn’t quite so convinced: it pinpointed problematic hues in the greens, blues and dark yellows, and a swathe of inaccuracies in the Dell’ handling of greyscales. The result is an average Delta E of 3.28 and a maximum deviation of 6.28 – still a decent result, but not exceptional. Weirdly, we found the Dell’s Text image preset to be the most colour accurate of the bunch, and apart from errors in the greens and blues, it rectified all the problems we noted in the Standard setting – the result was an average Delta E of 2.55 and a maximum of 6.56.

By far the Dell’s biggest limitation, however, is that it only supports a 30Hz input via DisplayPort or HDMI. This is immediately noticeable – the mouse cursor stutters across the Windows desktop, and games are limited to a juddery maximum of 30fps. Movies are unaffected, however, and we did note that motion in 24fps and 25fps video content looked just as smooth as on the Asus PB287Q alongside.

Dell P2815Q review: Verdict

In our opinion, it’s the lack of 60Hz support which ultimately does for the Dell P2815Q. Image quality is on a par with the Asus PB287Q when it comes to static images, but for our money, we’d quickly pay the extra £60 for smooth cursor control and genuine gaming potential.

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