See this Abnormal behavior on some Mac platforms with Dell 5k. However, these are not fully compatible with all Mac platforms. Dell UP271K (217.6 PPI) and LG Ultrafine 5K Display(217.6 PPI). In our research, these two are the only ones that can rival 5K iMac (217.6 PPI). If you are looking for a 5k monitor on the market that can compete with the 27 inch 5K retina display, then you should consider these two. So we added the PPI in each of monitor so you can avoid it if you don't want and added a PPI calculator at the end so you can check your display is compatible with the requirements or not. However, there's a workaround to fix it, but it results in higher memory usage and GPU work leading to shorter battery life and also blurry pixels which we assume you don't want it. Which means, other than 110PPI or 220PPI there will be scaling issues like text larger or smaller.
It created for people's comfort in mind and pixel density of about 110 PPI for non-Retina, and about 220 PPI for Retina. 2016 model, MacBook Pros, can run 27-inch Retina displays because of Thunderbolt 3.Īpple designed MacOS differently. But it only covers Retina display up to 20' and non-Retina resolutions up to about 40-inch. You should know that Thunderbolt 2 and DisplayPort 1.2 supports up to max 3840×2160 at 60HZ.
