oh that's bright,
1600 nits Peak brightness ladies and
gentlemen when we looked at the pa32 ucx
from ASUS a little over a year ago we were impressed 4K 60 HZ 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 pa32 ucg 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 will I ever get
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below for starters the ucg as we'll be calling it has got the world's first
4K 120 HZ mini LED IPS panel it features
a jaw-dropping peak brightness of 16 00
nits which is good enough for Vasa hdr400 certification so none of the Foo
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 God it's heavy but it's easy peasy
and can a Mac do this oh that's bright
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 HZ
rather than just 120 HZ 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
1,152 zones it is still possible to find
situations where you're going to 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 HZ 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 pa32 ucx 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% dcip
3 and 99 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 100 HZ 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
GB per second is definitely the way to go if you want 120 HZ 12bit 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 390 we
powered it up and ran our calman color Checker software Ware using the included
x-rite 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 wouldbe owners should
know remember when everything started getting lighter and cheaper
well not this guy this is one Hefty 32in
monitor with a net weight of 14.6 kilos that is just over 32 lb in
Freedom Units or basically 1 lb per inch
of screen space and oh my God it is
soy and it costs a whopping
$5,000 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 1,000 nits
brightness a monitor ARM will help alleviate that but this thing ain't no
uh M1 IM 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 pa32 ucg for gamers the
pg32uqx 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 HZ display HDR 1400 1,400 nit
Peak brightness and quantum dot technology for True 10bit 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 going to have to stick with the ucg so all hail then the new god king of
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in the video description so how many of you are artists and game devs who have
been eyeing this bad boy and waiting for the inevitable release that keeps
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us know in the comments and if you like this video check out our pa32 ucx review
so you can at least compare before you buy