Testing the World's First MiniLED Monitor! - ASUS ProArt PA32UCX Review 

A thing really worth checking out if you get the chance. Will have you making HDR-capturing/streaming content for months. Also, Hi from a fan :D

@@TechTesters :D

​@@TechTesters All RADEON and past GeForce cards also support 10 bpc; you do not need RTX to take advantage this panels features.

EposVox sube it will never be , micro -led is coming

Jaime Duncan microled won't be ready (especially for monitors) for years, and it will be even more expensive than this

ahhahhaaha

Not gonna lie, I want this for watching movies and gaming.

Browsing 88 it has to have low input lag and low response time for gaming

@@browsing8866 Asus has a version of this display with 120hz coming up. It's going to be hella expensive but practically the best display a consumer can buy.

@@nikoolix Asus is the worst company when it comes to high-end displays. I had the Asus OLED monitor and returned it after two days. One of the worst quality-controls ever.

FALD (Full Array Local Dimming) - it's a gimmick if it is not per-pixel. How can they call it *full* array without actually having *full* array of pixel lights? Maybe so that later on they can release real per-pixel dimming and call it TrueFALD, SuperFALD etc., making it more confusing for customers?

@@camelCased It is Full Array though. It is an array which covers the whole panel, it's just not the same resolution as the panel itself. Anyway it is still miles better than edge lit and static backlight technologies! MiniLED is a form of FALD, she said it herself. There are 1152 zones, which is better than before. If you want 1:1 "FALD" then you'll have to be waiting for MicroLED in that case. In a way I guess OLED could be considered FALD even though there is no backlight since it is the pixel itself which emits light.

Miniled is a stop-gap between MicroLED and accounting for a few use-cases where OLED may not be compatible with or within the target audience's user preferences. This is the first high-zone MiniLED monitor, beyond $100,000+ MiniLED TVs & select reference monitors, that's worth pursuing vs an OLED panel.

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Oh that’s cool but I can already imagine the pricing 😬 Atleast we’re going in a good direction.

@@Niels_f2704 Yeah agreed. Pricing will be crazy but the tech is going forward. Not many people think about that last part.

The ProArt PA32UCG with 120hz VRR is the one I'm looking forward to.

Just wait for the PA32UCG then.

I hope you find it useful. It is a fantastic monitor. Enjoy :)

@@TechTesters Haven't been able to spot one in the wild over here yet, and it is a bit pricey. But I have a feeling that it might be a price that is justified. Thanks again.

@Galva Tron As far as I am aware this monitor can be pre-ordered for around $3999,-, with prices over here (Netherlands) still not being released in any stores.

Ouch $ ,

chefalbino it’s interesting because this monitor gots 4K US$ in b&h it makes the 5k EiZo or the 6k Apple look cheap by comparison. The EiZo I am tslikin about is not the prominence (That is a 35k reference monitor )

haha

OLED burn in is not an issue and its proven with data!!!

Thank you!

Yeah, in five years

@@pietroalessandrini only 4 remains

@@omarmix6075 we must be patient and eventually the HDR God will be ours

@@pietroalessandrini 😂

I've only seen the new 1600 nits model at an event and there you can't really judge the difference. It does have 1600 nits spec, and has the new HDR1400 cert as well as 120Hz VRR. I don't know how much brighter it will actually be considering this one is already on / close to that level, but the speed/VRR might be worth it for game devs and such. I don't know if there are other differences yet. No details as to availability or price unfortunately either, but I hope to test it when it launches!

@@TechTesters what makes this monitor special I think is it's full screen sustained 1000 nits brightness.

Buy three, put it on full white HDR, enjoy your 660 Watt room heater.

@@TechTesters * puts on shades and sun tan*

Dayummm son! That's smooth!

..hm.

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I give like to your comment because of that apple price tag

Apple displays are not good for Calibrating, this one has its own calibration system and it has Dolby vision

It will probably be $3000

Pretty much!

@@TechTesters Its probably fair to say in all honesty people get hung up on nits and "needing to have" enough of them and it proves how little experience people still have with HDR. 1500 nits on a white screen is going to cause severe fatigue at the least, maybe even worse, especially if the whites are calibrated too cool (or lean too blue like so many amateurs seem to prefer), especially in a dark or dim room. I for one prefer low light for viewing so this is wasted on me. I also think 120cdm2 for 6500k whites is plenty bright enough in such conditions. Hell this thing can do 600 nits on SDR which is really seriously bright when many a monitor or yore maxed out around 350cdm2 which itself is very bright. The point is brightness is not the be all and end all for an enjoyable, non fatiguing viewing experience. Accurate colours are achievable with lower light and the human eye is not able to resolve and enjoy fine black and above detail while sharing 1500 nits areas at the same time. I admit it is still useful in a very bright room but turning it down by 75% is going to be important when sat two feet away at a desk in my own environment. For me the more important feature is the black and just above black details and the colour accuracy NOT the insane brightness levels that many think is more important. Thats where this monitor really does take my fancy. Id still much prefer a True RGB oled screen as the per pixel control still beats this lcd with more backlights tech (sorry miniLED). Oled grey to grey response is 5 times as fast if not more which in dark/light transition camera pans is very noticeable. For half the cost of this monitor one can soon buy an LG CX48 inch oled (okay not True RGB but damn close) which will have gsync 120hz, a TV built in, 48 inch size but sadly some risk of burn in. This monitor with true RGB oled and gsync for £1500 should be achievqble now but they keep milkong the top 5% of suckers for overpriced led lcd tech. That 2200 contrast ratio with SDR is certainly very low compared to some old VA panels for instance. Roll on cheaper miniLED which is at least a good step in the right direction as this video shows 👍

I'm really happy to hear that. Glad you enjoy it :)

damn where do you live

Hey. Like many manufacturers ASUS calibrates high-end panels in the factory so they deliver with a certain (low) DeltaE score out of the box. What they don't say (almost no brand does) is if they calibrate each individual panel, or what they usually do with cheaper models: only calibrate a couple of units per batch as most panels in the same batch will perform similarly. So many monitors come with a piece of paper that says how they are calibrated. Personally I just ignore the paper and test/calibrate it myself. If you -really- care about calibration (like you, as an editor), you will have to calibrate yourself sometimes anyway.

@@TechTesters thank you for this informations, and of course I've bought such a monitor to keep it calibrated, but isn't it a bit fishy that Asus sells that monitor promising that it is a DeltaE

The video isn't recorded in hdr so that doesn't help either. There's no hdr flag when i play it on my hdr tv.

Where do you see banding at any point in the video?

'soon' is a term we hear a lot from manufacturers though. Will try to get my hands on other options as soon as they show up, but I wouldn't be surprised if 'soon' becomes 202.

Or the latest studio drivers on an RTX card, and as of a month or two ago.

@@TechTesters So you are saying RTX has 2 different drivers?

@@basherkabir correct. I am not sure about all feature differences though . There is no performance difference AFAIK.

@@TechTesters So, they separated their driver stack just like AMD did with the VEGA Frontier Edition cards. One for Professional work and other for gaming. One more question; in the studio drivers for rtx what new features can you see in the control panel in the display tab? and is there a 10 bpp(10 bit per pixel precision) option switch or toggle?

Wait it's cheaper for you to import it from the EU? O.o That almost never happens, usually we complain here that we pay considerably more (accounting for taxes)

@@TechTesters it looks that way, I guess I has to happen sometimes

Happy to be of help! :)

It's.. complicated? I have a C7 too (same panel as the E7) and it's a really nice TV to look at. However as a monitor, to work on? OLED has downsides too.: OLED doesn't go as bright, especially in larger zones, and the matte finish is easier to work with imho. Like I said in the video: to consume content OLED is great, but developers of HDR games / movies won't enjoy working on an OLED TV I'm sure.

Nope; Asus has done MiniLED gaming monitors for years now. Nvidia BFGD are MiniLED too.

Yeah that was an.. oversight on our part ;) Should be improved in the latest and future ones.

Thank you!

a 55" OLED TV costs about half as much here in the EU. Apples and oranges though.

This is a monitor for pros & making things that are worth far more than the monitor itself.

I haven't seen one either :)

My pleasure :) I did not look at the input lag specifically. I didn't notice anything significant when gaming on it, but if there was a tiny bit of input lag I might have been too busy to stare at the HDR-action to notice.