Tested: This HP monitor could be one of the best-value big OLEDs you can get right now

I'm going to tell you a secret before we go into this HP Omen Transcend 32 review. All 4K OLED screens use panels from either LG or Samsung, and this one’s a Samsung QD-OLED. This means that underneath it’s the same as the Acer Predator X32X QD-OLED reviewed earlier in 2025, with the big difference being HP branding, a well-featured USB hub, and a slightly lower price from retailers.

That’s important, as 32-inch OLEDs have been around for a while, and it’s good to see a new entry to the market available for less than £/$1,000, as OLEDs make some of the best monitors for graphic artists. This HP screen has an RRP of $1,299, but is already available for less than that. It’s still a lot of money, but the benefits of modern OLED panels mean it’s going to become awfully tempting as the price creeps down.

Key specifications

Design and build

• Not too much gamer fluff
• Excellent OSD

Gaming monitors always have something slightly edge about them, whether it’s additional bits that light up or a logo akin to that of a death metal band. The HP Omen branding is pretty subtle from the front, but the back of the monitor is a different story. It’s mostly white, with a black inset rectangle, and this has a light-up ring around it.

The stand goes together with a single thumb-turn screw and clicks into the back of the screen. It’s simplicity itself, but can be a little deceptive: it’s worth laying the screen face down and pushing it home, as it can look like it’s in when it’s not, which will lead to the screen falling off. Don’t ask how I know this.

The inputs are easily accessible and point out the back of the panel rather than down, so you might want to get some cables with 90° ends. The power adapter is huge, possibly the biggest I’ve ever seen, and plugs into a similarly large multi-pin socket, all the better to power the 140W charging that can be sent from the USB-C input to your laptop.

There's a lot of plastic in the build, but it’s solid enough once you get the stand attached properly, and from there it’s easy to adjust with just a small amount of force. There is a VESA mount buried in the back, but it can be hard to find. There's a plastic square on the back that you'll have to remove, then unscrew the existing stand mount, and you're left with the familiar 100mm square. While you're doing this, you’re not going to want to touch the screen, as like many other OLEDs, your fingers will leave greasy marks after the slightest contact.

Design score: 3/5

Features and performance

• USB hub
• Lots of colour modes

Many of the Transcend 32’s features are aimed at gamers, but that doesn’t mean they’re not useful for others. The plastic hook in the box that snaps into a magnetic divot on the left-hand side of the screen, and provides a place to hang your headphones, will be immensely useful in the kind of studio where the resident Coldplay fan controls the stereo, and the 240Hz refresh rate will produce the kind of smooth video playback anyone working with high framerate video or scrubbing through footage shot with slow motion in mind.

The USB-C hub is one of the screen’s best features that doesn’t relate to the screen itself. We’ve seen a lot of these in recent years, but HP’s version comes with a Type-C port as well as three Type-A ones. The USB-C input runs at 10Gbps, so you’ll be sharing that across the hub, but it’s nice to have not only because the USB-C output provides 15W of power itself, perfect for charging your phone.

Alongside this, you get two HDMI and one DisplayPort input, so it’s possible to share this monitor among computers, consoles and streaming sticks - especially handy if it’s your only screen.

There is an impressive range of presets to be found on the Transcend 32’s OSD, split into Professional and Gaming sections. The Pro section includes AdobeRGB, P3 and BT.709 as well as sRGB and an eco mode. You can adjust RGB values if you want to correct bias, and there's a selection of multiple-input picture-in-picture modes too. It displays 98% of P3 in P3 mode, with 90% of Adobe RGB and 100% of sRGB. Switch to Adobe RGB mode, and you get 93% Adobe, 90% P3 and 100% sRGB.

And being an OLED, it puts out the kind of colour saturation other screens can only dream of. We’ve seen an increase in the brightness of IPS and especially Mini-LED panels recently, but nothing’s yet beating OLED when it comes to contrast and detail in dark areas. HP claims a full-screen brightness of 250 nits, rising to 1,000 over small areas of the screen in HDR mode, and our tests bear this out, with the screen hitting 248 nits in SDR mode. Pretty close.

Feature score: 4/5

Price

The RRP of the Transcend 32 is high - £1,299 in the UK, marking it out as a premium screen, just like every other 32-inch OLED panel, but retailers are regularly selling this one for less. As a result, it’s worth shopping around, but if you can score one in the US for $899.99, then you’re in for a treat.

Value score: 4/5

Who is it for?

• Graphic designers (and gamers)

A big, sharp screen with excellent colour reproduction like this one is ideal for InDesign and Photoshop gurus. Video editors will find much to like too. And if you happen to have a card such as the GeForce RTX 5090 that can feed it a 4K, 240Hz signal at brain-melting framerates, then your games will never look better either.

Buy it if...

• You want a new screen and only an OLED will do
• You can use the resolution and refresh rate
• You have lots of devices to plug in

Don't buy it if...

• You already have a 5K+ screen
• You need something cheaper

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