HP Pavilion 32 vs Asus ROG Swift PG348Q

The HP Pavilion 32 is a great tool for media artists, such as photo editors and web designers that work in the sRGB color space because the monitor can display the full range of sRGB colors accurately.

The HP Pavilion 32 is an excellent option for multitaskers because its large, 32-inch 2560x1440 panel offers a lot of display real estate. The monitor's so big that you can, for example, split it into four equal parts, so that each of those would represent a separate 16-inch HD monitor.

The HP Pavilion 32 can be used as a USB 2.0 hub because it has two USB downstream ports and a single upstream USB port. Using those ports, you can connect your computer to some stationary USB peripherals.

Additionally, you can use downstream USB ports for fast charging.

Regarding its picture quality, the HP Pavilion 32 outperforms the overwhelming majority of monitors in its price range as it offers high native contrast ratio, decent peak brightness, and excellent color accuracy.

The monitor displays highly satisfying scenes, with blacks that are truly rich and deep, and colors that pop and look accurate. The monitor's dark scene performance is excellent as it's native contrast ratio of 3000:1 pushes its blacks to some highly intense levels. Colors appear vivid because the monitor's backlight can get up to 300 nits bright.

Moreover, the overall picture looks lifelike because the monitor doesn't have any noticeable problems with color accuracy.

In its price range, only a handful of other monitors can compete with the versatility of the HP Pavilion 32 because the monitor offers exceptional picture quality, excellent color accuracy, and great connectivity combined with a very generous amount of on-screen real estate.

Getting the perfect viewing angles isn’t that complicated with the Asus PG348Q as it supports all the necessary ergonomic adjustments.

Ergonomics: It can be lifted up and down, turned right and left, and tilted up and down. So basically the screen can be adjusted to any dimension to suit your view angle.
Size: It has an optimum size (34") that looks great in games, movies and provides a lot of space to use your Windows applications side by side without ALT-tabbing between them. Any size smaller than this is a small screen (such as PG279Q) and any screen larger than this is too large for your eyes at a desktop PC-user distance.
Quality: Asus quality is behind this monitor. So no bug, no technical problems.

The monitor’s 3800R curve offers you an extra level of immersion as you can feel the panel surrounding you.

This Asus PG348Q is an excellent tool for content creators who like to capture, edit, and upload their gaming footage to YouTube or some other popular media services as the monitor offers a great amount of on-screen real estate, combined with the full sRGB coverage.

The monitor’s pair of 6 W integrated speakers sound surprisingly good and will come in handy outside of gaming.

You can use the monitor’s integrated USB 3.0 hub for charging and interconnecting peripheral USB devices. The hub consists of a single upstream and four downstream USB 3.0 ports.

The PG348Q looks good even from sides as the monitor offers some of the best viewing angles on the market. You’ll notice some color and shadow shifting only when the viewing angle exceeds 50 degrees, which is an outstanding result, as even the best IPS panels usually start to degrade at the 40 degrees angles.

The Asus PG348Q recreates relatively good-looking motion, with only some minor trails of motion blur following fast-moving objects on the screen. While fighting motion blur, the panel’s main weapon is the overdrive feature which allows each pixel of the Asus PG348Q to change its color within only five milliseconds. Unfortunately, some tiny trails of motion blur manage to get through.

Alternatively, you can use Asus’s ultra-low-motion-blur feature to eliminate the unwanted effect of motion blur, but that would cost you G-Sync, which can’t be used together with the ULMB.

Even while playing fast-paced FPS games, the Asus PG348Q feels highly responsive because of its low input lag of only 5,3 ms. Even though there are some faster panels available on the market, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to feel the 5,3 ms delay.

Monitor’s input lag is a time delay needed to process a frame generated by a computer.

G-Sync reduces stutter and eliminates screen-tearing as it allows the Asus PG348Q to synchronize its refresh rate to the framerate of a Nvidia GPU.

The monitor supports G-Sync in the 30-100 Hz range.

The Asus PG348Q comes with a rich selection of gamer-specific features, which include an FPS counter, timer, and multiple crosshair options. You can find those in the monitor’s GamePlus menu. All the elements are customizable.

The monitor’s native contrast ratio, peak brightness, gamma, and color uniformity are on par with what the best gaming monitors on the market offer.

The Asus PG348Q displays fascinating images, with crisp and vivid colors, accurate intermediate tones, and deep blacks. Colors pop and look vibrant thanks to the monitor’s peak brightness of 309 nits. Mid-tones look life-like since the monitor’s average gamma deviation is only 1.3% off from the perfect value. Blacks look rich and consistent because, while the panel’s native contrast ratio of 1081:1 manages to push blacks to relatively intense levels, the monitor’s overall uniformity dE of 0.78 ensures that the dark tones don’t blend with bright spots nearby. Such high color uniformity is a rare feature even for high-end monitors.

Moreover, the PG348Q’s color inaccuracies are virtually invisible to the human eye, because of it’s small color gamut error dE of 1.71.

The Asus ROG Swift PG348Q offers a combination of picture quality, responsiveness, and motion handling capabilities only the best gaming monitors can match. It is also equipped with a bunch of top-notch gaming features, like G-Sync, crosshair, and FPS counter.