Professional monitors are not the things you purchase for daily use as it has many powerful and amazing features. Recently Apple has given us a glimpse that what we should expect with this type of display. As markets showing interest in this type of display, Apple Pro Display XDR is really an amazing display having 6K capability to which Asus is giving competition by launching Asus New Pro in IFA 2019.
Asus has introduced 32-inch ProArt PA32UCG in which display promise to be world best video experience as the device has 1,600 nits of brightness and average of 1,000 nits, it also supports 10-bit color profile covering at least 99% of P3, reference color profiles in hardware, support of other HDR flavors (like Dolby Vision, Hybrid Log-Gamma and HDR 10) and sub-noticeable (Delta E < 1) color accuracy.
Asus also tweaked the device little bit as they add 120Hz variable refresh rate support , throws in more reference color spaces and user color profiles storable in hardware, for connecting the display Asus features HDMI, DisplayPort and Thunderbolt 3, but the inclusion of USB-4 hasn’t been announced as USB-4 shares the same specification like Thunderbolt 3. These features will make your pocket tight which will comes at around $5,000.
Running this type of monitor also requires a better graphic for this Asus partnered with Nvidia’s RTX GPU to run this display to its maximum. Asus introduces new ProArt Nvidia RTX studio system in their IFA debuts. It’s a sibling to the PA32UCX, Asus $4,000 pro 1,200 nits features Quantum Dot display which comes from Samsung, the device also features 4K HDR display. Asus is providing the stands in the system itself as it doesn’t cost $1,000 for a stand.
As comparing this display with Apple Pro XDR Display which features 6K and has an OLED like 90-degree of viewing angle which hasn’t seen most of the LCD display yet. Apple Pro XDR Display looks really aesthetics and appeals to people to itself. Asus’s PA32UCG uses the same full-screen mini-LED backlight as the 1,200 nit model boasting 1,152 local dimming zones which is twice as much of Apple’s. Fast refresh rate also super exceed from Apple’s 60Hz display at 6K.
Asus lets the user create their color profile and store it in the hardware so that user can use as per their need, with inexpensive calibrators from Datacolor and X-Rite, while displays don’t drift the way they used to, they can still lose up to 1 Delta E of accuracy every year. All this means that if you don’t calibrate routinely, it will degrade its accuracy efficiency in a couple of years.
Yet Apple’s Pro XDR Display is not released in the market so we can’t say anything about its support color profile, but Asus also support printing and editing format of Adobe RGB profiles, while Apple invented their own color profile called as P3-D50 as per Apple “P3 is future”. Apple made P3 Gamut available in all their current-gen. devices from iPhone to MacBooks. Asus not only supports all the big standard spaces — DCI-P3, Adobe RGB, sRGB, Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020 — along with this in PA32UCX you’ll be able to configure multiple input sources with different profile settings for side-by-side comparisons. You can connect two 6K Pro XDR Display in Apple’s Mac Pro easily without swapping of cables as they already feature industry-leading TB3.
Asus give around three years of warranty which made use to think for better reliability but talking about Apple’s Pro XDR Display it may or may not feature AppleCare Plus subscription which really made people frustrating about this display after paying such a hefty amount.
It is interesting to see how Apple will handle Asus display’s which is competing with Apple’s Pro HDR Display, until then join us for the more better article regarding IFA 2019 product launch and upcoming Apple product launch on September 10 in Apple Event.
