Asus PA328Q

Developer/manufacturer Asus Website www.asus.com cost £799.32 exc VAT

Asus sent us two screens this month, and despite both being 32in and having very similar names, they are actually more different than you would imagine. The PA328Q is cheaper and offers a broadly similar specification to other 4K screens this month, beyond the screen size.

usability

One of the key differences between the PA328Q and its more expensive sibling is that the former calculates colour in 12-bit, while the PA329Q uses 16-bit, although both have 10-bit displays. It still manages to offer 100% SRGB and Rec 709 support. There are the usual swivel, tilt, height adjustment and portrait pivoting options. The Displayport and Mini Displayport connections are 1.2 standard, with two HDMI 1.4 and a single HDMI 2.0, but no DVI or VGA.

performance

Although this is the cheaper of the two Asus monitors, colour uniformity across the screen is already excellent, partly due to brightness uniformity compensation being available as a menu option. There is some banding visible with red and green gradients, as well as white, although not with blue. Gamma wasn’t reading quite as high as the setting implied during our testing, however.

Conclusion

The Asus PA328Q has the slowest response at 6ms on test this month, and this was discernible if you looked closely at the moving rectangles screen in Monitortest, or the video we used for more subjective assessment. However, the text test in particular shows that 32in is a very natural screen size for 4K. so if you can afford the extra cost of this much screen, the PA328Q is definitely a contender.