I just tested the ‘world’s first 6K touchscreen’ monitor — its color coverage and accuracy blew me away but its price tag brought me back down to earth

The Alogic Clarity 6K Touch is, according to Alogic, the “world’s first 6K touchscreen” monitor at the time of writing. It’s plenty bright, and it boasts superior color accuracy and coverage, making it a great choice for creatives and professionals. Throw in versatile viewing angles that let you use the monitor upright or flat, and you’ve got yourself a winner.

But the monitor has noteworthy drawbacks, unfortunately. Its stylus, which is crucial for taking full advantage of the touchscreen, isn’t included with the monitor. Also, the monitor’s refresh rate is limited to 60Hz, and its glossy panel is like a mirror. Oh, and it’s rather expensive.

Is it still one of the best monitors for you? Read my full Alogic Clarity 6K Touch review to find out.

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Alogic Clarity 6K Touch review: Specs

Alogic Clarity 6K Touch review: Cheat sheet

• What is it? A 6K touchscreen monitor with a 60Hz refresh rate
• Who is it for? Graphic designers, architects, and other creative professionals
• How much does it cost? Quite a lot! The Alogic Clarity 6K Touch is available for $1,999 / £2,199
• What do we like? The responsive touchscreen, bright 6K panel, superior color accuracy and coverage, and versatile viewing angles
• What don’t we like? The 60Hz refresh rate, stylus that isn’t included, and mirror-like reflections

Alogic Clarity 6K Touch review: The ups

From its versatile viewing angles and responsive touchscreen, to its excellent color coverage and accuracy, the Alogic Clarity 6K Touch is an excellent monitor for creatives.

Versatile viewing angles

I’ve tested many monitors in my time as a reviews writer, but none have been as versatile as the Alogic Clarity 6K Touch — specifically in terms of viewing angles. Featuring a specialized hinge and Fold Stand, the Clarity 6K Touch can be used in a standard upright desktop position, or at a flat drafting-table angle. Adjusting angles is easy as the hinge can be pulled and pushed as needed, but it’s also stiff enough to stay locked into place.

Another thing I appreciate about the Clarity 6K Touch is its 360° rotating base which makes it extremely easy to turn the monitor as and when needed. You don’t need to lift the monitor every time you want to, say, show your monitor to a colleague sitting opposite you. That’s good because this is a hefty boi, weighing a whopping 24.91lbs (including the stand). That’s nearly 10lbs heavier than the Apple Studio Display XDR ($3,299) and 17lbs more than the Apple Studio Display ($1,499) — both of which are the Clarity 6K Touch’s main rivals.

Of course, the Clarity 6K Touch has an ace up its sleeve here: neither of the two Apple monitors can be turned into an almost flat screen. Speaking of, if you’ve got the dough, the Clarity 6K Touch is a great Apple Studio Display alternative, offering seamless integration with MacBooks and you can even plug your iPhone or iPad into it. The monitor’s sleek design and aluminum frame makes it look like an Apple-esque display.

Connectivity and ports are there in spades too. There are two HDMI 2.1 and one DisplayPort 1.4 ports; one USB-C 3.0 port with up to 95W of power delivery; one USB-B 3.0 port; two USB-A 3.0 ports; and a 3.5mm audio out port. The monitor features two 5W speakers which sound decent, too.

Responsive touchscreen

The Alogic Clarity 6K Touch’s unique selling point is its touch panel, and Alogic claims that it’s the “world’s first 6K touchscreen.” The 32-inch LED-backlit panel has a maximum resolution of 6016 x 3384, or 6K, and it’s a great size and resolution for creatives. The touchscreen is extremely handy for architects, artists, graphic designers, and illustrators, and it’s extremely responsive.

To use the touchscreen, you’ll need to connect your laptop to the Clarity 6K Touch using the included USB-C cable — it won’t work over an HDMI or DisplayPort connection as those cannot transmit touch data. Trust me: I tried. Plugging my MacBook Air M2 directly made the touchscreen come to life, and I appreciated not having to install any third-party or proprietary drivers or software onto my laptop.

Once I connected my laptop, I was able to use my fingers to manipulate, control and navigate the screen — like I would do with my mouse, but with my hands instead. The real star of the show, though, is the tilt- and pressure-sensitive (4,096 levels) Clarity Active Stylus Pen 2. I tested it and found it extremely responsive, and I used it to make a few drawings on a free online app.

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I’m not an artist or designer, but I thoroughly enjoyed drawing with the stylus. I even got a few of my colleagues to draw on the Clarity 6K Touch. I hope you enjoy our works of art in the gallery above. Everyone who used the stylus said they found it comfortable to hold.

Alogic’s stylus is shaped and designed like an Apple Pencil, and even has an eraser at the top, so you can just flip the stylus to get rid of what’s on the virtual drawing board. There’s also a quick-action button on the stylus which you can hold down to right-click on your desktop, and other shortcuts depending on the software you’re using. Oh, and the stylus magnetically clips to the bottom edge of the monitor, so you don’t need to worry about losing it.

Excellent color coverage

There’s no point in buying a monitor if it doesn’t boast excellent color coverage — especially one that’s as expensive as the Alogic Clarity 6K Touch. Fortunately, my lab testing showed that the monitor goes a long way to justifying its premium price tag, as its color coverage is something to behold.

My lab testing results blew me away, to be honest with you. As you can see in the table above, the Clarity 6K Touch covered 176.8% of the sRGB color space and 125.3% of the wider DCI P3 gamut. Anything above 100% is great, and the Clarity 6K Touch goes above and beyond, delivering a wide array of tones, which look vivid and beautiful on the display.

The Clarity 6K Touch blows its competition out of the water, upstaging other third-party monitors, like the BenQ MA270S ($999) and the BenQ PD3226G ($1,099). What impressed me the most, though, was how easily the Clarity 6K Touch flew past Apple’s first-party monitors. Both the Apple Studio Display and the Apple Studio Display XDR are excellent in their own right, but neither come close to the Clarity 6K Touch’s color coverage — especially in the DCI P3 color space, which will be important for professional video and photography production.

This monitor sounds great on paper and it’s even better in practice. Having used the Clarity 6K Touch for a week, I can confirm that all colors look lovely. Greens appear vivid and lush, while reds and blues look textured and deep, and I didn’t think any of the colors looked oversaturated or fake. The blacks appeared inky too — or as inky as they could on an IPS/non-OLED panel — and I enjoyed the contrast, especially while watching wildlife documentaries on YouTube.

Great color accuracy, too

In addition to wide coverage, colors appear extremely accurate on the Alogic Clarity 6K Touch too. Color accuracy is measured as a Delta-E number which is a numerical representation of how much two colors differ. It essentially tells you how close the color relayed on screen (i.e. the monitor) is to the color output from the source (i.e. the computer). The closer the score to zero, the better.

In my lab testing, the Clarity 6K Touch achieved a Delta-E score of 0.1, which is superb. This means that the colors displayed on the monitor are extremely close to the ones being sent to it by the source. The only monitor to beat that score is the BenQ MA270S, and even then, it edges the Alogic out by 0.01, which is negligible. The Clarity 6K Touch also performs better than the Apple Studio Display (0.2) and the Apple Studio Display XDR (0.2).

As someone who tests the best cameras and the best drones, color accuracy is crucial when I’m editing photos and videos. My lab tests reassured me that the colors I was seeing on the monitor were as accurate as they could be, and this gave me more confidence when editing photos for reviews and my photography Instagram account.

The Clarity 6K Touch also features 8-bit + FRC color depth. In addition to producing 16.7 million colors, the monitor essentially simulates 10-bit color depth by rapidly flashing two alternating colors so the human eye perceives it as 10-bit. This can sometimes cause flickering issues but I didn’t experience any such thing in my testing. If you want a true 10-bit color monitor, I’d recommend the BenQ MA270S instead.

Plenty bright!

Once I was done measuring color coverage and accuracy, I lab-tested the Alogic Clarity 6K Touch’s brightness, and you can see the results in the table below.

The Clarity 6K Touch achieved a peak brightness of 342.2 nits in SDR mode — only slightly dimmer than the BenQ MA270S. It’s also dimmer than the Apple Studio Display XDR but remember: that monitor is nearly two times pricier than Alogic’s offering. The Clarity 6K Touch reached 298 nits in HDR mode (10% window size) which is nothing to write home about, but hey, at least the monitor has an HDR mode — which the Apple Studio Display doesn’t.

Alogic Clarity 6K Touch review: The downs

The Alogic Clarity 6K Touch isn’t without its faults. Its refresh rate is limited to 60Hz, its gloss panel is like a mirror, the stylus needs to be bought separately, and it’s quite expensive.

60Hz refresh rate only

The Alogic Clarity 6K Touch is a productivity-focused monitor, and as such, it doesn’t have a very high refresh rate, topping out at just 60Hz, just like the Apple Studio Display. I wouldn’t recommend the Clarity 6K Touch to competitive or FPS gamers, but the monitor should suffice for casual, slower-paced gaming.

It’s worth considering one of the best gaming monitors if you spend a lot of your time playing video games. There are plenty of gaming monitors available that also have high color accuracy and wide color gamut coverage. And some are even cheaper than the Clarity 6K Touch, like the MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 ($949) with its 360Hz refresh rate or even the 500Hz MSI MAG 272QP QD-OLED X50 ($749).

Gloss panel is like a mirror

The Alogic Clarity 6K Touch features a gloss panel, and you can’t buy the monitor with a matte screen. Positioning the monitor is, then, crucial. My office is west-facing and I sit in front of massive windows which let a lot of sunlight in, especially once it gets past noon. The Clarity 6K Touch’s gloss panel is very reflective: it’s almost like a mirror, and I even used it to fix my hair. There’s a lot of glare and there were a few instances where I had to adjust the screen to ensure I could see it. This also poses a risk to your eye health, as glare can quickly cause eye strain.

One of the biggest advantages of the Clarity 6K Touch’s glossy panel is its anti-fingerprint coating, which is important for any monitor, in my opinion. But is it worth the trade-off if you need to ensure the monitor doesn’t sit in front of big windows or in very bright rooms? I’m not entirely convinced. The BenQ MA270S’ panel is also reflective but not this reflective.

Stylus not included

When I was sent the Alogic Clarity 6K Touch, I was very surprised to find that its stylus wasn’t included in the box, especially given the monitor’s already steep MSRP. While you can use your fingers to manipulate the Clarity 6K Touch’s touchscreen, you need a stylus for drawing if you’re an architect, for instance, and graphic design, and Alogic recommends an MPP 2.0 stylus to use with this monitor.

I tested the Clarity Active Stylus Pen 2 with the Clarity 6K Touch, and it’s fantastic, as you read about earlier. The Clarity Active Stylus Pen 2, on its own, costs $100 at B&H Photo / £69 at Park Cameras, which drives up the monitor’s total cost to a whopping $2,099. And this is a nice segue into my next point…

Expensive

I’ll start this off by saying that while the Alogic Clarity 6K Touch is expensive, it’s still considerably cheaper than the $3,599 Apple Studio Display XDR. It has a retail price of $1,999 at B&H Photo / £2,199 at Park Cameras, so it isn’t for the budget-conscious buyer. That eye-watering price tag makes it more expensive than most other monitors I’ve tested, like the BenQ MA270S ($999), the BenQ Creative Pro PD2730S ($1,199) and the MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 ($949).

But again, the Clarity 6K Touch is a lot cheaper than Apple’s first-party monitors. It offers seamless MacBook compatibility and features a touchscreen, which neither the Apple Studio Display XDR nor the Apple Studio Display do — though the latter is $400 cheaper than the Alogic 6K Touch.

The Clarity 6K Touch’s premium price tag is more of a pre-purchase consideration than an outright drawback. If you’ve got the dough, I wouldn’t stop you from buying it, especially if you need a production monitor with a touchscreen. But if you’re a little tight on budget, it’s worth considering other alternatives, like the BenQ MA270S which also offers impeccable MacBook integration.

Alogic Clarity 6K Touch review: Verdict

How much money are you willing to spend on a monitor? If the answer is, “Just under $2,000,” then the Alogic Clarity 6K Touch could be the one for you. The monitor’s 6K panel is plenty bright, and the Clarity 6K Touch boasts excellent color accuracy and coverage. With its versatile viewing angles and seamless Apple compatibility (and sleek design), it’s a beautiful monitor for creatives.

But is it worth the money? I’m not entirely convinced. It’s got a 60Hz refresh rate only; it doesn’t come with a stylus (which costs an additional $100); and its glossy panel is highly reflective, almost like a mirror. Those drawbacks make that eye-watering price tag sting your eyes even more — but at least it’s cheaper than the Apple Studio Display XDR!

If those are drawbacks you can live with, and you need a high-resolution monitor with a touchscreen for professional purposes, then the Alogic Clarity 6K Touch is a solid choice. Its 6K panel really is stunning.