The Artist Pro 27 Is Xp-pen’s Latest 4k Flagship Display Tablet

XP-Pen has launched a caller 27-inch show drafting tablet that competes pinch nan ocular capacity of Wacom’s beloved Cintiq Pro series, but for a fraction of nan cost. The Artist Pro 27 is disposable starting coming for $1,899.99, providing a 4K solution show pinch a 120Hz refresh complaint and utmost colour accuracy, according to XP-Pen’s webstore listing.

Those specifications are akin to Wacom’s overmuch pricier Cintiq Pro 27, which launched 4 years agone for $3,499. Wacom has agelong established itself arsenic nan starring tablet shaper for imaginative professionals, but products released by much affordable competitors for illustration XP-Pen and Huion person caught up successful nan past fewer years, making Wacom’s lofty prices harder for immoderate consumers to justify.

Both of nan 27-inch show tablets support ten-point multi-touch features. Color accuracy is besides similar, pinch nan Artist Pro 27 covering 99 percent of Adobe RGB, 99 percent of sRGB, and 97 percent of DCI-P3, but each different has its ain specification strengths.

The 5ms latency connected nan XP-Pen Artist Pro 27 is faster than nan Cintiq Pro’s 10ms consequence time, for example, and nan tablet supports 16,384 levels of unit sensitivity compared to 8,192 connected nan Wacom (though I ideate astir users won’t acquisition overmuch quality betwixt them). The Artist Pro 27 is besides supported connected much operating systems — Windows, macOS, Android, Chrome, and Linux — compared to conscionable Windows and macOS for Wacom.

Unlike nan Cintiq Pro 27, however, nan Artist Pro 27 doesn’t support HDR, and Wacom’s offering has a brighter 400-nit show compared to nan 350 nits disposable connected XP-Pen’s caller tablet. The pens are besides distinct. While nan Wacom Pro Pen 3 that ships pinch nan Cintiq Pro 27 allows users to customize nan grip thickness, weight, and buttons, nan Artist Pro 27 includes 2 abstracted styluses — nan skinny X3 Pro Slim and nan much feature-packed X3 Pro Smart Chip stylus.

At almost $2,000, nan Artist Pro 27 is hardly cheap, but for that, you’re getting a flagship drafting show for almost half nan value of Wacom’s closest alternative. It’ll beryllium up to imaginative professionals to determine really overmuch their marque loyalty is really worth.