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Monitor advise for professional use

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Ed from Holland

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Hi CGD,
I'm a professional product designer looking for a new monitor and hope to get some advise from you guys.

Main (multitasking) use:
Rhino 3D modelling and (real time) rendering
Adobe Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop

pc specs;
Intel Core i9-10900 (10 cores, 20 MB cache, Base 2,8 GHz, tot 5,2 GHz) DDR4 2933
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000, 6 GB

I now use two 24 inch Dell Ultrasharp widescreen monitors (one for main screen and one for tools) side by side.
Planning for one bigger monitor and found these;
Dell UltraSharp 32 4K USB-C monitor: U3219Q
Dell UltraSharp 32 Ultra HD 4K monitor met PremierColor: UP3216Q

Dell UltraSharp 34 gebogen USB-C monitor: U3419W
Alienware 34 inch gebogen gamingmonitor - AW3420DW
LG UltraGear 34GN850


What a wise choice also keeping in mind what's best for my eyes when looking at it all day (approx. 70 cm distance)

Thx!
regards Ed
 
Alex Glawion

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Well the UP3216Q is the only one with a native 10bit display, all the others achieve 10bit only through FRC. So you'll most likely see the best color on that one.

The Alienware and the LG are made for gaming, with high refresh rates, so you are bound to lose some quality with gsync and other gaming features if you compare pricing here.

I personally am not too fond of ultrawides, but that is for you to decide if you can work on them. I personally like to be able to snap my windows to the monitor edges, and this becomes difficult on ultrawides.

All of them are good monitors, with IPS panels that are quite color accurate, the resolution is good, it all comes down to how you handle ultrawides or curved monitors and if you need them for things like gaming?
 
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Thx Alex,
for your quick reply and advise.
I think you're right about the curved ultrawides.
It's just because I compare it to my two side by side 24 inchthat i'm using know ; )

What is the main difference between the U3216Q and U3219Q?
And are there any other (better) alternatives?
 
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Those two are hard to compare as one is from 2015 the other is much newer. The older has a native 10bit panel, while the other has HDR support.

Here's another suggestion: ASUS ProArt PA329C

Probably one of the best monitors you can get in that price range.
 
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I presume the 32198Q is the newer one?
Do they have G-sync/Free-Sync?

About the Asus; this is the most recent of the 3?

Will the lack of G-Sync and Free-Sync be noticable when using with NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000, 6 GB
 
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Yes the 3219Q is the newer one. None of the 60hz Monitors have variably sync / gsync or freesync as those are not meant for gamers.
 
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Thx for your help!
Last question;
Do you know the difference between ASUS ProArt PA329C and (newer) ProArt PA329CV?
 
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Isn't the PA329CV so new that it can't be bought yet? Or do you see it listed to buy somewhere? It seems to be the successor.
 
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Ed from Holland

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Know you say it I think so too ; )
Thx for your advise.
 
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