Project Valerie IS NOT 12K RIGHT!?

[GKliveGAMING]

Okay... so Project Valerie is three 4K screens. On their website they advertise that as "12K." But, 4K = 4 1080p monitors. 8K = 4 4K monitors. SO HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE 12K?!

[dizmo]

It's 12k in that there are (almost) 12k pixels x 2160.

[bgibbz]

4k refers to the approximate pixel width. A 4k pixel screen is approximately 4000 pixels wide. So in turn, 3 * 4000 = 12000, so 12k. 4  1080 p screens = 4k becuase you arrange them in a two by two square, While a 3 monitor setup is side by side. 

[GKliveGAMING]

But its not about the monitors it is about the pixel count.

[GKliveGAMING]

So it is basically ultra wide 12K?

[Glenwing]

12 minutes ago, GKliveGAMING said:

Okay... so Project Valerie is three 4K screens. On their website they advertise that as "12K." But, 4K = 4 1080p monitors. 8K = 4 4K monitors. SO HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE 12K?!

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/691408-2k-does-not-mean-2560×1440/

 

"K" terms refer to horizontal pixel counts, not "how many pixels compared to X". 4K UHD being four times 1080p is just a coincidence, that isn't why it's called 4K, and you could have other 4K resolutions which are not four times 1080p. Anything ≈4,000 pixels horizontally is 4K, and anything ≈12,000 pixels horizontally (such as three 4K screens) is 12K.

[bgibbz]

7 minutes ago, GKliveGAMING said:

So it is basically ultra wide 12K?

Well that's one way to think about it. As I mentioned, "4k", "12k", etc simply refers to the amount of pixels wide the display is. As the laptop is essentially 12000 pixels wide, it would be techinically be 12 k. 

[Droidbot]

6 minutes ago, GKliveGAMING said:

So it is basically ultra wide 12K?

4k trimonitor

 

PV is still a waste of time, 1x1080 can't drive AAA games at that res

 

[Enderman]

When talking about K it refers to the horizontal resolution.

Technically you could have a 12000x1 pixel monitor and it would be considered 12K.

The K is not how many 1080p screens it is made out of, it just happens that 4k is four 1080p screens, but that's just a coincidence.

[GKliveGAMING]

That's just dumb.

[Skeeter]

The use and miss-use of "HD", "4k", UHD", and all other associated attempts at measuring resolution are so messed up its not even worth trying to make sense of it. Throw "Retina" in there too and go full on pointless conversation.

 

The Valerie has 3 screens with lots of pixels. Thats about as far as you need to go

[Bsmith]

7 hours ago, GKliveGAMING said:

But its not about the monitors it is about the pixel count.

pixel count is megapixels

screen resolution's are often refered to the amount of pixel in width/length, so 3 4k screens roughly equals 12k.

useless note:

4k resolution is around 8megapixels, which is very little considering most modern camera's are 12+megapixels.