Dell Ultrasharp U3425WE Monitor Review: Display and a Thunderbolt 4 Docking Station in One

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7.5

Pros & Cons

  • Excellent connection options
  • Loud speakers
  • Monitor is good but underperforms for the price.
  • Color accuracy is only average

The Dell UltraSharp U3425WE is a sizable ultrawide monitor, offering a 34-inch, 21:9 screen with 3,440×1,440-pixel resolution. This provides plenty of real estate for multitasking. The 120Hz refresh rate keeps everything looking smooth. The display itself isn’t much to look at, pun intended, for a $1,050 monitor (it’s significantly less from other retailers). While it has decent color gamut and contrast, it’s rather limited in brightness and color/contrast performance, falling well short of what recent OLED and QD-OLED monitors can muster.

What helps set the UltraSharp U3425WE apart is its plethora of ports. Display aside, the Dell UltraSharp U3425WE is a proper Thunderbolt 4 hub that’s capable of offering high-bandwidth pass-through to connected devices, display daisy-chaining, 95-watt power delivery charging and downstream connections to three USB-C ports...

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