oh that's bright 1600
nits peak brightness ladies and
gentlemen
when we looked at the pa-32 uc-x from
asus a little over a year ago
we were impressed 4k 60 hertz mini led
backlight
color accurate hdr with 1200 nits peak
brightness
it was a force to be reckoned with and
it was the answer to apple's pro display
xdr
but for pc users but then asus being
asus said
asus hold my beer and now
we've got this their next generation pro
art display the pa32ucg
or as we've been calling it the god king
of monitors
but what exactly did they improve and is
it worth shelling out
thousands of dollars for an upgrade do
gamers even care about a display this
expensive
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for starters the ucg as we'll be calling
it has got the world's
first 4k 120 hertz mini led ips panel
it features a jaw dropping peak
brightness of 1600 nits
which is good enough for vasa hdr 1400
certification
so none of the fako hdr 2000 like we saw
from samsung's odyssey g9
a few months back it's also got improved
io featuring hdmi 2.1 support
as well as displayport 1.4 with display
stream compression
now that improvement on peak brightness
and refresh rate
is huge it's only 4k rather than
6k like the pro display xdr but hey
at least it comes with a stand am i
right need to show the latest edits to
your boss
bam
but it's easy peasy and can a mac do
this oh that's great
well yes yes it can but hey
now pc enthusiasts and professionals can
do that too
and this is really cool if at the end of
the day you don't feel like leaving the
office
quite yet and you decide to play some
games it
is otherworldly 4k 120 looks
and feels amazing even with the 5
millisecond rated pixel response times
that is as long as you're not hyper
competitive because naturally
everything that makes this thing look
beautiful for creatives who need it
makes it beautiful in games another
thing that's missing compared to a real
gaming monitor is obviously higher
refresh rates i mean something like the
odyssey g9 runs at 240 hertz rather than
just 120 hertz
that extra little bit of smoothness we
have
basically proven already in separate
videos that it does
make a difference so for competitive
gamers
yeah this probably ain't it i am really
really impressed at the pixel response
times though considering this is not a
gaming display it is
a full array local dimming backlit
display so even though they're mini leds
and you've got
1152 zones it
is still possible to find situations
where you're gonna get
halos around light objects on dark
backgrounds
the thing is that when playing games or
watching movies
it's pretty hard to notice like anyone
see any haloing 4k 120 hertz with
perfect color
it's nice really nice but i don't know
if i
need it which takes us to the next big
question who does
well in our first review of the pa32ucx
our main contenders were editors working
in hdr who needed perfectly color
accurate images
and game developers now this time around
it's similar to the ucx offering with
support for
hdr10 hlg and dolby vision
and it delivers highly accurate color
across a wide variety of color spaces
we're talking 100 srgb 97
dc ip3 and 99.5
of adobe rgb but with the ucg
having the frame rate improvements and
updated connectors
well the needle starts to sway a bit
closer to game development
especially now that the latest gen
consoles and graphics cards have made
hdmi 2.1
the new standard that is a bit of a
problem though since to take advantage
of this thing
you will need hdmi 2.1 which you will
only find on nvidia's 30 series
and amd's 6000 series gpus sorry folks
displayport 1.4 just isn't going to cut
it anymore
we were able to get as far as 100hz
10bit rgb using hbr3 transmission
but we needed chroma subsampling to
reach rates like 120
or 144 hertz and the visual anomalies
that accompany chroma subsampling
well they can be okay for playing games
but they're not ideal for creating them
maybe once displayport 2.0 comes out and
more than doubles the maximum bandwidth
of dp
it'll end up back on top but for now
hdmi 2.1 at 48 gigabit per second
is definitely the way to go if you want
120 hertz
12-bit rgb with full dynamic range
still though the addition of display
stream compression on dp 1.4
is a bonus over the previous ucx model
of course to test it then
we had to pair it with the only card we
trust in our editing den
the rtx 3090. we powered it up and ran
our calman color checker software using
the included x-ray i1 display pro
a 260 value by the way which should at
least help justify the cost of this
thing
right then we ran tests to compare
against the included factory calibration
report
what we found was that our display
wasn't perfect
however its inaccuracies were almost all
below the level that the human eye can
even discern
with an average delta e of less than two
and
while ours was a little bit off we're
confident that with a little bit of
calibration this monitor will be an
extremely accurate part of your workflow
and besides professionals should be
periodically calibrating their displays
because they can actually drift out of
calibration over time
and there are some other things that
would-be owners should know remember
when everything started getting lighter
and cheaper
well not this guy this
is one hefty 32-inch monitor with a net
weight
of 14.6 kilos that is just over 32
pounds in freedom units or
basically one pound per inch of screen
space
and oh my god it is so heavy
and it costs a whopping 5
000 us dollars it also takes up a
huge amount of desk space thanks to just
how thick the housing is
because of the cooling solution that
asus built in to reach that
impressive sustained 1000 nits
brightness
a monitor arm will help alleviate that
but this thing ain't no uh
m1i mag that's for sure the other major
caveat is that asus has another monitor
that is
mostly either on par or actually better
than the pa32ucg
for gamers the pg-32uqx
it's hailed as the world's first mini
led gaming monitor by some
and it is 2 000 less than this one and
you get 4k 144 hertz
display hdr 1400 1400 peak brightness
and quantum dot technology for true
10-bit color depth
for anyone who wants to primarily game
while maintaining
pretty dang good color accuracy for a
little bit of work
that's the better option but for anyone
who wants that little bit of extra peak
brightness and a
much wider array of color spaces while
creating hdr content
you're gonna have to stick with the ucg
so
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so how many of you are artists in game
devs who have been eyeing this bad boy
and
waiting for the inevitable release that
keeps getting pushed back
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comments and if you like this video
check out our pa32ucx review so you can
at least compare before you buy