Samsung - U28d590d Series 28 Led 4k Uhd Monitor Review

Test Results

Design

Curved No

Curve Radius Not Curved

Weight (without stand up) 10.4 lbs (four.seven kg)

Weight (with stand up) eleven.9 lbs (five.4 kg)

Width fifteen.iii" (38.9 cm)

Depth vii.4" (18.8 cm)

The stand is basic but looks good. It has quite a small footprint. Despite this, it does feel quite stable but doesn't have much weight, so information technology's easy to accidentally move it.

Height Adjustment 0.0" (0.0 cm)

Switch Portrait/Mural No

Hinge Range No swivel

Tilt Range -twenty° to v°

Update 07/02/2021: We previously had incorrectly listed the Height Adjustment as 'N/A' every bit opposed to '0'. The review has been updated to reflect this change, as the Ergonomics score has dropped slightly.

Ergonomic adjustments on the Samsung U28E590D are very express. The simply selection is to tilt the screen, so finding a comfortable setup may be difficult.

Wall Mount VESA 100x100

The rear of the Samsung U28E590D monitor is quite basic, with all of the inputs located in the centre and directed out the back. The VESA mounting indicate is a fleck foreign, at the top of the monitor and also recessed so it may be harder to fit with some mounts.

Borders 0.vii" (one.8 cm)

The borders are uncomplicated but look fine. They are a bit thicker than about other monitors we've tested, which isn't ideal for a multi-screen setup.

Thickness (with stand) four.8" (12.two cm)

Thickness (without stand) two.0" (5.1 cm)

The monitor is quite thin when viewed from the side, and looks good. The bottom of the monitor is the thickest, but even this is a maximum of two".

The build quality of the Samsung LU28E590DS is good. Although almost entirely plastic, it has a textured stop and feels quite squeamish. All of the parts are adequately well put together.

Picture Quality

Native Contrast 688 : 1

Contrast With Local Dimming Northward/A

The dissimilarity ratio is disappointing for this Samsung TN monitor when compared to another TN monitor like the AOC AGON AG271QX, which can reach over 1000:1. Darkroom functioning is poor since when displaying true blacks, they tend to look more like grays and the whole screen has a done-out look. Performance is better when ambient light is present though and as such, this would exist the best scenario for this monitor. If you want a monitor that has a higher contrast ratio for improve dark room performance, check out the LG 32UL500-W.

Local Dimming No

Backlight Direct

The Samsung UE590 UHD does not take a local dimming feature. The video is for reference only.

SDR Real Scene 278 cd/m²

SDR Tiptop ii% Window 287 cd/m²

SDR Superlative 10% Window 292 cd/one thousand²

SDR Peak 25% Window 293 cd/m²

SDR Top l% Window 293 cd/m²

SDR Meridian 100% Window 293 cd/thousand²

SDR Sustained ii% Window 287 cd/1000²

SDR Sustained 10% Window 291 cd/chiliad²

SDR Sustained 25% Window 292 cd/m²

SDR Sustained l% Window 292 cd/g²

SDR Sustained 100% Window 292 cd/m²

SDR ABL 0.001

The Samsung U28E590D'due south brightness is decent. It isn't the brightest display nosotros've seen, but it tin get bright enough to fit in well-nigh viewing environments without much issue. The brightness does not fluctuate over time or depending on what is shown on screen, which is great.

HDR Real Scene Due north/A

HDR Height two% Window Due north/A

HDR Peak 10% Window N/A

HDR Pinnacle 25% Window N/A

HDR Peak 50% Window N/A

HDR Peak 100% Window N/A

HDR Sustained two% Window N/A

HDR Sustained ten% Window N/A

HDR Sustained 25% Window N/A

HDR Sustained 50% Window N/A

HDR Sustained 100% Window Northward/A

HDR ABL N/A

HDR is not supported.

Color Washout From Left 32°

Color Washout From Right 38°

Colour Shift From Left 29°

Color Shift From Right 26°

Effulgence Loss From Left 46°

Brightness Loss From Right 50°

Blackness Level Raise From Left 25°

Black Level Raise From Right 29°

Gamma Shift From Left 28°

Gamma Shift From Correct 26°

Poor horizontal viewing angle. Equally is usual with other TN-type LCD monitors, the Samsung UE590 does quite poorly with most aspects of our viewing angle test. Its colors shift a fair amount and well-nigh noticeably is its blackness level which raises considerably from a slightly off-axis position.

Color Washout From Below 13°

Color Washout From To a higher place 68°

Color Shift From Below 21°

Color Shift From Above 62°

Effulgence Loss From Beneath 25°

Brightness Loss From Above 50°

Blackness Level Raise From Below 23°

Black Level Raise From Above 32°

Gamma Shift From Below 3°

Gamma Shift From Above 3°

Bad vertical viewing angle. The colors of the Samsung U28E590D start shifting very rapidly when information technology is viewed from beneath, fifty-fifty going equally far as completely inverting at steeper angles. Its brightness also shows quite drastic shifts, as it both goes very dark when viewed from below and very bright when viewed from to a higher place. This makes it difficult, specially because its larger size, to have a perfectly uniform picture fifty-fifty from a centered viewing position.

50% Std. Dev. vii.297%

50% DSE 0.142%

five% Std. Dev. 1.012%

five% DSE 0.094%

The overall grayness uniformity is decent on the Samsung U28E590D. On the 50% gray uniformity, some actually faint vertical band are visible, but they are too faint to appear when watching normal content. The border is a scrap darker in some areas, but the difference between those spots is very smooth and does not attract the eyes as well much. Annotation that on the 50% picture, the top of the screen looks darker, but this is mostly due to the outcome of the vertical viewing angle of the TV panel.

On the 5% gray uniformity exam picture, we tin see the backlight bleed on the lower-left corner, which is also visible on the blackness uniformity examination, and also some of the horizontal lines that were too noticed on the 50% gray test picture. Those are mostly just visible on a uniform and dark color and are non actually noticeable on normal content unless you lot are watching some actually dark multimedia content.

Native Std. Dev. 3.438%

Std. Dev. west/ 50.D. N/A

The black uniformity of the Samsung U28E590D is bad. Some backlight drain is visible effectually the edges of the monitor, especially at the bottom and the meridian. This causes content that uses a lot of pure blacks (such equally the letterboxes in movies) to get a grey, cloudy tone that tin be quite distracting. This is besides a much worse black uniformity compared to the AOC AGON AG271QX, another TN monitor that we accept reviewed before.

Picture Style Custom

Luminance 405 cd/m²

Luminance Settings 100

Dissimilarity Setting 75

RGB Controls Custom (l-50-l)

Gamma Setting No Gamma Setting

Color Temperature 7,562 K

White Balance dE vi.97

Color dE 4.95

Gamma 2.05

Out of the box, the Samsung UE590 has poor accuracy. The most accurate film fashion was the 'Custom' one in combination with the 'Custom' 'Color Tone', but when ready under those setting, the white balance dE is well over the limit that anybody would notice the level of inaccuracy. Every bit for the color dE, at iv.95, it is way inaccurate and if we check the color temperature, we see that it is on the absurd side, as the white signal are drifting toward the blue too much.

If y'all find the color temperature too cold, you can set the monitor nether the 'Custom' picture mode, and ready the 'Color Tone' to 'Warm one'. This way is simply a chip less accurate, but not by far (white rest dE is 7.85, color dE is 5.4 and the color temperature is 6167k).

The overall gamma is a bit low, but not by far, but if you look at the target curve, we encounter that it undershoot a bit in the brighter end of the target. Notation that for all picture show modes measured, the 'Gamma' 'Mode1' was the most authentic.

Picture Fashion Custom

Luminance 98 cd/m²

Luminance Settings 17

Contrast Setting 71

RGB Controls 50-31-xxx

Gamma Setting No Gamma Setting

Color Temperature 6,500 Thou

White Rest dE 0.61

Colour dE 1.20

Gamma 2.15

After scale, which was also done on the 'Custom' picture mode and the 'Custom 'Color Tone', the accurateness of this Samsung monitor is excellent. This is a large improvement over the 'Out of the box' experience. The white rest dE is at present under the limit which we tin't discern inaccuracy (dE of 1.0) and the color dE is just hovering in a higher place the same limit. The colour temperature is correct on target (6500k) and if you look at our 'Postal service Color Picture', you can encounter that the white point is spot on, with only some intermediate colors beingness a bit off target.

As for the gamma, it is now much closer to our 2.two target and the bend runway more closely our target curve. Some footling issues are still visible on the brighter end, just overall, this is a good improvement.

Yous tin can download our ICC profile calibration hither.

sRGB xy 96.seven%

Adobe RGB xy lxx.iv%

sRGB Picture Mode Custom

Adobe RGB Picture Mode Custom

Good SDR color gamut. The Samsung U28E590D's coverage of the s.RGB color infinite is great. It can reproduce almost 100% of the standard RGB color gamut. At 70%, still, it's less useful for those that require the more professionally-oriented Adobe RGB color infinite.

sRGB In ICtCp 87.half-dozen%

Adobe RGB In ICtCp 71.0%

sRGB Picture Way Custom

Adobe RGB Picture Mode Custom

The Samsung UE590'southward color volume is a picayune below average due to its depression contrast ratio. Information technology cannot reproduce darker colors. Due to its poor color accuracy out of the box, the color volume greatly benefits from scale.

Wide Color Gamut N/A

DCI P3 xy Northward/A

Rec. 2020 xy N/A

DCI P3 Picture Manner No HDR

Rec. 2020 Moving-picture show Mode No HDR

HDR color gamuts are not supported.

DCI-P3 In ICtCp N/A

Rec. 2020 In ICtCp N/A

DCI P3 Film Manner No HDR

Rec. 2020 Picture Mode No HDR

HDR color gamuts are not supported.

IR After 0 Min Recovery 0.00%

IR Afterwards 2 Min Recovery 0.00%

IR After iv Min Recovery 0.00%

IR Afterwards 6 Min Recovery 0.00%

IR After viii Min Recovery 0.00%

IR Later x Min Recovery 0.00%

No image retention can be noticed on the Samsung UE590, which is good particularly for gamers out there.

Color Depth x Bit

First-class functioning for the Samsung UE590 monitor on our gradient test. No 8-fleck banding is visible on this monitor, as it is a 10-chip monitor, and almost no perceivable colour baning, even in the nighttime colour tones. This is peculiarly skillful for people who spotter a lot of multimedia content, as color banding should exist kept to a minimal.

Pixel Row Error 0.007%

Pixel Cavalcade Error 0.008%

This Samsung U28E590D monitor is well-nigh completely free of color bleed. It should non be visible with normal usage.

Screen Stop Matte

Total Reflections five.1%

Indirect Reflections 2.8%

Calculated Direct Reflections 2.3%

The reflection treatment of the Samsung U28E590D is good, and the light matte cease works well to diffuse precipitous reflections across the screen and reduce their intensity. This should be fine for most rooms, merely in a bright room, reflections may be distracting.

Motion

Best Overdrive Setting Faster

Rise / Fall Time 7.4 ms

Total Response Time 16.half-dozen ms

Overshoot Error 0.2%

Dark Rise / Fall Fourth dimension vii.0 ms

Night Total Response Time 11.iii ms

Night Overshoot Fault 0.0%

Response Time Standard
Response Time Faster
Response Time Fastest

Very good response time, adept plenty for fast moving content such as offset person shooters or fighting games.

Most of the mistiness actualization in the photo is doubling caused past the undesirable flicker of the backlight. The bodily length of the trail following moving elements is actually quite brusk, which is good. The 'Response Time: Faster' overdrive setting was the most balanced; the 'Fastest' setting had a much faster eighty% transition time but a much slower 100% transition time, and it as well introduced a lot of overshoot (artifacts that expect like inverted colors). Every bit such nosotros do not recommend the 'Fastest' setting.

Best Overdrive Setting Faster

Ascension / Fall Time seven.iv ms

Total Response Fourth dimension 16.six ms

Overshoot Mistake 0.2%

Night Rise / Fall Time 7.0 ms

Dark Total Response Time eleven.iii ms

Dark Overshoot Error 0.0%

Flicker-Free No

PWM Dimming Frequency 240 Hz

The backlight dims without utilizing flicker from 'Brightness' setting 100/100 to 31/x. Information technology and so uses PWM to dim with flicker from 30/100 to 0/100. Because the flicker is at a relatively high frequency of 240 Hz, it won't exist visible when displaying a still image, simply during motion, it will produce a doubling effect of moving objects (as seen in the motion blur photograph). This ways that at low brightness, the Samsung U28E590D monitor volition have worse movement than at mid and high effulgence. Also, this flicker is at too loftier a frequency to be useful as black frame insertion to help clear upwards movement.

Black Frame Insertion (BFI) No BFI

BFI Maximum Frequency N/A

BFI Minimum Frequency North/A

Native 60 Hz

Max Refresh Rate 60 Hz

Variable Refresh Charge per unit Yeah

FreeSync Yes

G-SYNC No

VRR Maximum threescore Hz

VRR Minimum 40 Hz

VRR Supported Connectors DisplayPort

The Samsung U28E590D has a mediocre native refresh rate of sixty Hz, only, fortunately, also supports FreeSync. This allows the monitor to vary its refresh charge per unit to lucifer the frame charge per unit of the calculator when the frame rate is within the narrow range of 40-60 Hz. This is very useful when gaming because information technology eliminates tearing even without using VSync.

Update 01/15/2019: Unfortunately, although it does back up NVIDIA's FreeSync style, enabling it caused severe artifacts, including frames played out of order, rendering it unplayable.

Inputs

Native Resolution 9.0 ms

Native Resolution @ 60Hz nine.0 ms

Variable Refresh Rate 9.8 ms

Variable Refresh Rate @ 60Hz nine.8 ms

10 Bit HDR North/A

Black Frame Insertion (BFI) N/A

Swell low input lag, adept enough for all simply the most competitive gamers. The input lag is consistent no matter the input resolution, which is expert. Enabling the Game Mode does not reduce the input lag, but it disables many picture options so we recommend setting it to Off for the best viewing experience.

Native Resolution 3840 x 2160

Aspect Ratio xvi:9

Megapixels eight.3 MP

Pixel Density 161 PPI

Screen Diagonal 27.9"

Screen Area 327 in²

The Samsung U28E590D monitor has an extremely sharp 4k resolution and a large 28" size, which are great for almost any usage, particularly part apply.

All of the inputs are directed out the rear of the Idiot box.

DisplayPort ane (DP 1.2)

Mini DisplayPort No

HDMI i (HDMI 2.0), one (HDMI ane.4)

DVI No

VGA No

DisplayPort Out No

USB No

USB C No

Analog Sound Out 3.5mm one

Microphone In 3.5mm No

Digital Optical Audio Out No

Analog Audio Out RCA No

Power Supply External Brick

The DisplayPort and HDMI #2 ports support 4k @ 60Hz @ RGB because they have high bandwidth (DP 1.2 and HDMI 2.0, respectively). HDMI #1 on the other hand only supports 4k @ 30Hz @ RGB because it doesn't accept enough bandwidth (it'south an HDMI one.4 port). Pushing the monitor'due south joystick side to side changes the volume of the 3.5mm headphone port.

Features

RGB Illumination No

Speakers No

HDR10 No

Multiple Input Brandish PIP + PBP

The Samsung UE590 has a picture-in-picture (PIP) feature which lets it show two of its inputs at in one case. They can be shown side by side (1 on each half of the screen), or one over the corner of the other. When a calculator input is shown on one-half the screen the figurer knows to scale itself accordingly (to 1920x2160), which is handy.

The only physical command is a joystick on the back-right corner, that acts every bit the ability button and navigates the OSD. The joystick is actually a very intuitive mode to navigate an OSD, better than the (up/down/back/select) button scheme about monitors apply.

• Manual and drivers
• Power cablevision
• Power brick
• Displayport cablevision
• HDMI cable

Differences Between Sizes And Variants

There are two sizes available for the UE590, a 24 and 28 inch variant.

If someone comes beyond a dissimilar type of panel or if their Samsung U28E590 doesn't correspond to our review, permit u.s.a. know and nosotros volition update the review. Annotation that some tests such as the gray uniformity may vary between private units.

Size	Model	Name	Full Production lawmaking
24"	U24E590D	U24E590	LU24E590DS/ZA
28"	U28E590D	U28E590	LU28E590DS/ZA

Compared To Other Monitors

The Samsung U28E590 is a decent monitor, but it comes with quite a few major merchandise-offs that oftentimes make it a less desirable choice over its competition. It is, however, a bit cheaper than average. See our recommendations for the best 28-32 inch monitors, the all-time 4k gaming monitors, and the best PC gaming monitors.

The Samsung UJ590 is meliorate than the UE590. The newer UJ590 has a much better native contrast ratio, thank you to the VA panel. It also has better viewing angles, and much meliorate Adobe RGB color volume. The older UE590 is a lot brighter.

The BenQ EL2870U is much better than the Samsung UE590. The BenQ supports HDR, although this doesn't add much. The BenQ too has slightly better movement handling, as the backlight is completely flicker-costless at all brightness settings. Although both monitors support FreeSync, the BenQ supports it over DisplayPort and HDMI, whereas the Samsung just supports FreeSync over DisplayPort.

The Samsung JG50 is a bit better than the Samsung UE590, although they use dissimilar panel technologies, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. The UE590 has a TN panel, with a 4k resolution, bang-up for multitasking. The JG50 uses a VA panel, which delivers much deeper blacks. The JG50 has a lower native resolution, but has a much faster refresh charge per unit and has less input lag.

The Dell U2715H is much better than the Samsung UE590. The U2715H has much ameliorate viewing angles and amend ergonomics, so it can hands exist adjusted to the best position and readjusted if there are multiple users. The Dell is amend for people sensitive to flicker, equally information technology is flicker-free. The Samsung UE590 is a scrap better for gaming, equally it has a faster refresh rate with FreeSync support and higher native resolution.

The Dell U2717D is much better than the Samsung UE590. The U2717D has much better ergonomics, so it is easier to adjust to a more comfortable viewing position. The Dell has much wider viewing angles, and better greyness uniformity. The Samsung UE590 is better for gamers, as it has much lower input lag and a faster refresh rate, so fast moving objects accept less motion blur.

The LG 27UD58-B is much better than the Samsung UE590. The LG 27UD58-B has much wider viewing angles, and in that location are no duplications in moving objects as the backlight is flicker-free. The 27UD58 has improve gray uniformity, which is great for watching streaming sports.

The LG 27UD68P-B is significantly amend than the Samsung UE590. The LG 27UD68P-B uses an IPS panel which has much wider viewing angles. The LG has ameliorate ergonomics, as the stand up peak tin can be adjusted and it tin switch betwixt portrait and mural orientations. The LG is flicker-free, whereas the Samsung UE590 flickers at lower brightness levels, which causes duplications in motility.

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Source: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/samsung/ue590

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