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ASUS PA32UC-K review

ASUS PA32UC-K. Display diagonal: 81.3 cm (32"), Display resolution: 3840 x 2160 pixels, HD type: 4K Ultra HD, Display technology: LED. Display: 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: 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1). VESA mounting, Height adjustment. Product colour: Black, Grey

Extreme Contrast, Astonishing Realism

ProArt PA32UC-K 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 colour space, providing a lifelike HDR experience that is ideal for high-end video editing. ProArt PA32UC-K is factory pre-calibrated and it includes ProArt Calibration technology to ensure colour accuracy with a ∆E value below 2. Certified for Windows and Mac OS, it's ideal for graphic designers, photographers and professional content creators.

Capture every detail

ProArt PA32UC-K 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-K 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, HDR technology delivers exceptional onscreen clarity and detail.

Deepest blacks, brightest whites

Featuring a full-array LED backlight with ASUS LED Driving technology, ProArt PA32UC-K 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-K achieves wide colour coverage to exceed industry standards by delivering 85% Rec. 2020, 99.5% Adobe RGB, 95% DCI-P3 and 100% sRGB. It features 14-bit colour graphics to display more than 1.07 billion colours. 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 colour fidelity for truly expressive hues

ProArt PA32UC-K monitors are pre-calibrated to guarantee industry-leading colour 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 (colour) fluctuations across the screen.

ASUS ProArtâ„¢ Calibration technology

Whether you're using a desktop, laptop, PC or Mac, ASUS ProArt Calibration technology offers colour accuracy tuning and uniformity compensation to make things easy when it's time to recalibrate your display's brightness and colour consistency. Achieve optimum colour accuracy when working with different types of content with a variety of advanced presets, allowing you to easily adjust colour gamut, brightness, black levels, gamma correction, colour temperature and uniformity.

Thunderboltâ„¢ 3 for versatile, ultrafast connections

ProArt PA32UC-K includes two USB-C ports that support Thunderboltâ„¢ 3 for data transfer speeds of up to 40 Gbps 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 colour 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 minimise eye strain, headaches and eye fatigue.

Ergonomic design

A comfortable viewing position is always easy to achieve with ProArt™ PA32UC-K, 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
  • Wide colour gamut technology provides 85% Rec. 2020, 99.5% Adobe RGB, 95% DCI-P3 and 100% sRGB colour space for exceptional colour 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 colour accuracy and 5 x 5 grid uniformity testing

ASUS PA32UC-K specs

Other Features

Mac compatibility: yes
No flickering: yes
TV tuner integrated: no
On/off switch: yes
Display: LED

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): 470 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 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

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
Picture-in-Picture: yes
Tilt angle range: -5 - 23°
Tiltable: True
Swivel angle range: -90 - 90°
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

Windows operating systems supported: Windows 10,Windows 7,Windows 8.1
AMD FreeSync: False
NVIDIA G-SYNC: no

Sustainability

Sustainability certificates: ENERGY STAR

Design

Certification: BSMI, CB, CCC, CE, CU, ErP, FCC, ICES, ISO-9241-307, J-MOSS, KCC, PSE, RoHS, UkrSEPRO, UL/cUL, VCCI, WEEE, WHQL (Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7), RCM, TUV Flicker-free , KC , eStandby, TUV Low Blue Light, UHDA
Feet colour: Grey
Product colour: Black, Grey
Market positioning: Graphics design

Multimedia

RMS rated power: 6 W
Number of speakers: 2
Built-in camera: no
Built-in speaker(s): yes

Thin Client

Thin client installed: no

Ports & Interfaces

AC (power) in: yes
HDCP: True
Thunderbolt ports quantity: 2
Headphone connectivity: 3.5 mm
Headphone outputs: 1
DisplayPorts quantity: 1
HDMI ports quantity: 4
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: 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1)
Built-in USB hub: yes

Display

Adobe RGB coverage: 99.5%
sRGB coverage (typical): 100%
RGB colour space: sRGB
Pixel pitch: 0.1845 x 0.1845 mm
3D: False
Display number of colours: 1.073 billion colours
Viewing angle, vertical: 178°
Viewing angle, horizontal: 178°
Contrast ratio (dynamic): 100000000:1
Contrast ratio (typical): 1000:1
Supported graphics resolutions: 640 x 350,640 x 480 (VGA),720 x 400,800 x 600 (SVGA),848 x 480,1024 x 768 (XGA),1152 x 864 (XGA+),1280 x 1024 (SXGA),1280 x 720 (HD 720),1280 x 768 (WXGA),1280 x 800 (WXGA),1280 x 960,1366 Ñ… 768,1400 x 1050 (SXGA+),1440 x 900 (WXGA+),1600 x 1200 (UXGA),1680 x 1050 (WSXGA+),1920 x 1080 (HD 1080),1920 x 1200 (WUXGA),2560 x 1080,2560 x 1440,3840 x 2160
Screen shape: Flat
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")