

The Asus PA246 display manages to display 99% of the Adobe RGB 1998 color space as advertised by the company, so that’s nice. The real shocker here is that there is a significant difference between using a converter cable compared to using an HDMI to HDMI cable. The blue line is when I connected my MacBook Pro with an adapter cable using a DisplayPort cable into the Asus display the red line is when I plugged in the computer with an HDMI to HDMI cable. So how does this compares to a display that is manufactured to display colors as accurately as possible? Asus PA246 Factory Calibrated DisplayĮhh! That’s quite a difference! Let’s break it down.

Here’s the sRGB plot and as you can see, it manages to display 99% of the sRGB color space, which is very good for a laptop screen. When compared to sRGB, it managed to display 99% of sRGB after calibration. Adobe RGB 1998 is a much more significant color space than the more commonly used sRGB, so for web work, the sRGB color space is more important. Adobe RGB 1998 where it managed to display 88% of the colors.
The graph above comparing the MacBook Pro (red line) vs. After doing a calibration on both on the latest MacBook Pro 15″ retina and my factory calibrated Asus PA246, I saved the comparison charts for the two displays to see how they stack up. MacBook Pro 15″ Retina Mid2014 Calibrated compared to sRGB and Adobe RGB 1998Ī couple of days ago I got my new Spyder4 Elite Color Calibrator for color calibrating monitors.
