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Release date: 22 Mar 2020
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ASUS ProArt PA32UC LED display review

ASUS ProArt PA32UC. Display diagonal: 81.3 cm (32"), Display resolution: 3840 x 2160 pixels, HD type: 4K Ultra HD, Display technology: LED, Response time: 5 ms, Native aspect ratio: 16:9, Viewing angle, horizontal: 178°, Viewing angle, vertical: 178°. Built-in speaker(s). Built-in USB hub, USB hub version: 2.0 / 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1). VESA mounting, Height adjustment. Product colour: Black, Grey

Extreme Contrast, Astonishing Realism

ProArt Display PA32UC brings onscreen realism to a whole new level. Its Ultra HD Premium-certified 4K IPS panel produces up to 1,000 nits of brightness and delivers 85% Rec. 2020, 99.5% Adobe RGB, 95% DCI-P3 and 100% sRGB color space, providing a lifelike HDR experience that is ideal for high-end video editing. ProArt Display PA32UC is factory pre-calibrated and it includes ProArt Calibration technology to ensure color accuracy with a ∆E value below 2. Certified for Windows, Mac OS and validated by Blackmagic Design, it's ideal for color grading, graphic designers, photographers and professional content creators.

Capture every detail

ProArt PA32UC features a 32-inch 4K (3840 x 2160) panel with 138 ppi for four times the pixel density and up to 300% more onscreen space than other Full HD monitors of a similar size. Enjoy extraordinary clarity with the finest details while performing visually intensive design tasks or while watching 4K video.

A brighter, more lifelike viewing experience

ProArt PA32UC has an Ultra HD Premium certification – the industry standard for HDR. Designed to enhance the contrast between the brightest and darkest parts of an image delivers exceptional onscreen clarity and detail. It also features ASUS Smart HDR technology which supports multiple HDR formats (HDR-10 and HLG) and multiple HDR-10 curves to suit your specific needs.

Deepest blacks, brightest whites

Featuring a full-array LED backlight with ASUS LED Driving technology, ProArt PA32UC has 384 LED zones and a peak brightness of 1,000 nits, so it can produce the deepest blacks and the brightest whites.

Bring out the true beauty of your pictures

ProArt PA32UC achieves wide color coverage to exceed industry standards by delivering 85% Rec. 2020, 99.5% Adobe RGB, 95% DCI-P3 and 100% sRGB. It features 14-bit color graphics to display more than 1.07 billion colors. It also uses a 14-bit internal lookup table and supports Gamma values of 2.6, 2.4, 2.2, 2.0, and 1.8 to produce natural-looking images with smoother transitions between hues.

High color fidelity for truly expressive hues

ProArt PA32UC monitors are pre-calibrated to guarantee industry-leading color accuracy with a ∆E value below 2. Each monitor comes with a report of calibration levels 63, 127 and 255, and features advanced gray-scale tracking technology to ensure your images are accurately reproduced onscreen. The monitor also includes technology to ensure 95% uniformity compensation to guard against brightness and chroma (color) fluctuations across the screen.

ASUS ProArtâ„¢ Calibration technology

Whether you're using a desktop, laptop, PC or Mac, ASUS ProArt Calibration technology offers color accuracy tuning and uniformity compensation to make things easy when it's time to recalibrate your display's brightness and color consistency. (calibrator is not included in the package)

Thunderboltâ„¢ 3 for versatile, ultrafast connections

ProArt PA32UC includes two USB-C ports that support Thunderboltâ„¢ 3 for data transfer speeds of up to 40Gbps as well as a DisplayPort and USB 3.1 with Power Delivery to provide up to 60W of power to external devices. Thunderboltâ„¢ 3 also makes it possible to daisy-chain several displays through a single port, without the need for a hub or a switch.

Picture-in-Picture & Picture-by-Picture

Both Built-in Picture-in-Picture (PiP) and Picture-by-Picture (PbP) functionalities allow you to view content from multiple sources simultaneously, and switch between them easily. You can even select which audio source to play.

Picture-by-Picture (PbP) mode

To simultaneously experience different settings, place multiple input sources side by side onscreen and configure each individual window's color settings with sRGB, Adobe RGB, DCI-P3, Rec. 2020, User Mode 1 or User Mode 2.

QuickFit Virtual Scale

Save time and work smarter with ASUS QuickFit Virtual Scale ― an onscreen grid overlay that lets you align and preview documents in their actual sizes, prior to printing. An intuitive 5-way navigation joystick makes it easy to access and switch settings using the onscreen menu.

ASUS Blue Light Filter

ASUS Ultra-Low Blue Light technology is designed to protect viewers from harmful exposure to blue light. Certified by TÃœV Rheinland, the blue light filter offers four settings that are easily accessed through the onscreen display menu via the hotkey.

ASUS Flicker-Free technology

ASUS Flicker-Free technology provides a more comfortable viewing experience by reducing onscreen flicker to minimize eye strain, headaches and eye fatigue.

Ergonomic design

A comfortable viewing position is always easy to achieve with ProArt™ PA32UC, thanks to its slim profile and ergonomically designed stand that offers tilt, swivel, pivot, and height adjustments. Its onscreen menu even rotates automatically to display correctly when the monitor is used in portrait orientation – which is handy when working with websites or longer documents.

  • 32-inch 4K IPS monitor with an astonishing 100,000,000:1 contrast ratio (ASCR) and a wide, 178° viewing angle
  • 384-zone direct-lit LED backlight matrix with a brightness of 1,000 nits and ASUS LED Driving technology for stunning HDR performance
  • Support multiple HDR formats, including HDR-10 and HLG for lifelike visuals
  • Wide color gamut technology provides 85% Rec. 2020, 99.5% Adobe RGB, 95% DCI-P3 and 100% sRGB color space for exceptional color fidelity
  • Thunderboltâ„¢ 3 supports data transfers at up to 40 Gbps, and USB-C with Power Delivery provides up to 60W of power to external devices
  • ASUS ProArt Calibration technology offers advanced adjustments, including a 14-bit lookup table for color accuracy and 5 x 5 grid uniformity testing

ASUS ProArt PA32UC LED display specs

Weight & Dimensions

Weight (without stand): 7.8 kg
Height (without stand): 42.6 cm
Depth (without stand): 6.9 cm
Width (without stand): 72.7 cm
Weight (with stand): 11.4 kg
Height (with stand): 600 mm
Depth (with stand): 229 mm
Width (with stand): 727 mm

Operational Conditions

Storage temperature (T-T): -20 - 60 °C
Operating temperature (T-T): 0 - 40 °C

Packaging Data

Package type: Box
Package weight: 16.7 kg
Package height: 365 mm
Package depth: 521 mm
Package width: 913 mm
Quick start guide: yes
Cables included: AC, DisplayPort, HDMI, Thunderbolt, USB

Power

Power supply type: Internal
AC input frequency: 50/60 Hz
AC input voltage: 100 - 240 V
Power consumption (PowerSave): 0.5 W
Power consumption (standby): 0.5 W
Power consumption (typical): 56.84 W

Ergonomics

LED indicators: Power, Stand-by
Number of OSD languages: 21
On Screen Display (OSD) languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, German, Dutch, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Thai, Turkish
On Screen Display (OSD): True
Tilt angle range: -5 - 20°
Tiltable: True
Swivel angle range: -60 - 60°
Pivot: True
Pivot angle: -90 - 90°
Swivelling: True
Height adjustment: 13 cm
Height adjustment: yes
Cable lock slot type: Kensington
Cable lock slot: yes
Panel mounting interface: 100 x 100 mm
VESA mounting: yes

Performance

AMD FreeSync: False
NVIDIA G-SYNC: no

Sustainability

Sustainability certificates: ENERGY STAR

Design

Compliance industry standards: UL/cUL, CB, CE, ErP, FCC, ICES-3, CCC, CEL, BSMI, CU, RCM, VCCI, UkrSEPRO, J-MOSS, RoHS, WEEE, PSE, KCC, eStandby, KC, ISO 9241-307, TUV Flicker Free, TUV Low Blue Light, Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 WHQL, Mac Compliance***
Certification: TÃœV Flicker-free TÃœV Low Blue Light UHD Premium
Product colour: Black, Grey
Market positioning: Graphics design

Multimedia

RMS rated power: 2 W
Number of speakers: 2
Built-in camera: no
Built-in speaker(s): yes

Ports & Interfaces

AC (power) in: yes
HDCP: True
Headphone connectivity: 3.5 mm
Headphone outputs: 1
Headphone out: yes
DisplayPort version: 1.2
DisplayPorts quantity: 1
HDMI version: 2.0b
HDMI ports quantity: 4
HDMI: True
USB Type-A downstream ports quantity: 2
USB Type-C downstream ports quantity: 1
Number of upstream ports: 1
USB upstream port type: USB Type-B
USB hub version: 2.0 / 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1)
Built-in USB hub: yes

Display

Adobe RGB coverage: 99.5%
sRGB coverage (typical): 100%
Colour gamut: 98%
RGB colour space: DCI-P3
Colour depth: 10 bit
High Dynamic Range (HDR) supported: yes
High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology: High Dynamic Range 10 (HDR10),Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG)
Digital vertical frequency: 29 - 65 Hz
Digital horizontal frequency: 109 - 142 kHz
Viewable size, vertical: 39.9 cm
Viewable size, horizontal: 70.8 cm
Pixel pitch: 0.1845 x 0.1845 mm
Display number of colours: 1.073 billion colours
Viewing angle, vertical: 178°
Viewing angle, horizontal: 178°
Maximum refresh rate: 60 Hz
Contrast ratio (dynamic): 1000000:1
Contrast ratio (typical): 3000:1
Screen shape: Flat
Anti-glare screen: yes
Backlight type: Direct LED
Display technology: LED
HD type: 4K Ultra HD
Response time: 5 ms
Display brightness (typical): 1000 cd/m²
Panel type: IPS
Native aspect ratio: 16:9
Display resolution: 3840 x 2160 pixels
Display diagonal: 81.3 cm (32")