XP-Pen has launched a brand new 27-inch show drawing pill that competes with the visible efficiency of Wacom’s beloved Cintiq Professional sequence, however for a fraction of the fee. The Artist Professional 27 is offered beginning at this time for $1,899.99, offering a 4K decision show with a 120Hz refresh fee and excessive colour accuracy, in keeping with XP-Pen’s webstore itemizing.
These specs are just like Wacom’s a lot pricier Cintiq Professional 27, which launched 4 years in the past for $3,499. Wacom has lengthy established itself because the main pill producer for artistic professionals, however merchandise launched by extra inexpensive rivals like XP-Pen and Huion have caught up in the previous few years, making Wacom’s lofty costs tougher for some shoppers to justify.
Each of the 27-inch show tablets help ten-point multi-touch options. Colour accuracy can also be related, with the Artist Professional 27 overlaying 99 p.c of Adobe RGB, 99 p.c of sRGB, and 97 p.c of DCI-P3, however every in any other case has its personal specification strengths.
The 5ms latency on the XP-Pen Artist Professional 27 is quicker than the Cintiq Professional’s 10ms response time, for instance, and the pill helps 16,384 ranges of stress sensitivity in comparison with 8,192 on the Wacom (although I think about most customers received’t expertise a lot distinction between them). The Artist Professional 27 can also be supported on extra working methods — Home windows, macOS, Android, Chrome, and Linux — in comparison with simply Home windows and macOS for Wacom.
Not like the Cintiq Professional 27, nonetheless, the Artist Professional 27 doesn’t help HDR, and Wacom’s providing has a brighter 400-nit show in comparison with the 350 nits obtainable on XP-Pen’s new pill. The pens are additionally distinct. Whereas the Wacom Professional Pen 3 that ships with the Cintiq Professional 27 permits customers to customise the grip thickness, weight, and buttons, the Artist Professional 27 consists of two separate styluses — the thin X3 Professional Slim and the extra feature-packed X3 Professional Good Chip stylus.
At nearly $2,000, the Artist Professional 27 is hardly low-cost, however for that, you’re getting a flagship drawing show for nearly half the worth of Wacom’s closest various. It’ll be as much as artistic professionals to resolve how a lot their model loyalty is admittedly price.
