Colour Performance and Calibration

Default Calibration

And so let's talk near colour performance. Past default, the XG35VQ is prepare to 340 nits of brightness past default, which is very loftier for normal usage. Greyscale performance is good, with a default deltaE average of 2.25 and an okay, though not fantastic CCT boilerplate of 7140K and gamma just shy of ii.1. I've seen better greyscale calibration out of the box, merely this isn't bad at all.

Saturation results are skillful, with a deltaE of one.88, and this follows through to ColorChecker with a deltaE of ii.31. For the all-time results I'd be looking for sub ane.0 results as always, but anything effectually that 2.0 mark is notwithstanding classified as good. And as advertised, the XG35VQ does support basically 100% sRGB coverage, which is the bare minimum these days.

On-Screen Brandish Only Calibration

Equally e'er, a few OSD tweaks can improve the feel. I'd ignore the garbage sRGB style entirely and stick purely to manual tweaks. The changes I made you can see here, and it's all fairly standard stuff, though of grade there is natural variance between displays and these might not be the best settings for everyone.

Setting Default Calibrated
Brightness 90 44
Contrast eighty fourscore
Color Fashion Warm User
R: 100
G: 97
B: 95
Gamma 2.two 2.two
Overdrive Level 3 Level v

Bated from correcting the effulgence, these changes only made a pocket-size difference to operation, with about of the improvements coming in greyscale. The deltaE average is now downwardly at 1.80 and the CCT is fixed somewhat, though you can encounter in the curve of the graph that this is never going to be fully resolved without proper calibration. Saturation and ColorChecker results are largely unchanged.

Full Calibration

However yous can achieve excellent operation with a total display scale through SpectraCAL's CALMAN 5. With merely a small striking to the contrast ratio – now 2098:1 – greyscale performance improved to an excellent deltaE nether 0.5 and a CCT average basically expressionless authentic. Gamma as well sits at a very solid level. Then looking at the saturation and ColorChecker results, you tin come across that calibration has pulled in these figures to a sub-1.0 deltaE average and even a maximum deltaE of just 1.67, which is really good.

Of course for color accurate usage, the uniformity of this display does hold information technology dorsum from being suitable for professional piece of work, and software scale profiles aren't an ideal way to solve accuracy issues. But for a gaming-focused monitor, a few tweaks can pb to excellent results, and that's always great to encounter.

Nonetheless, and this really is a killer for this display, my review unit of this monitor did ship with a single dead pixel in the center of the panel. I have no idea how mutual this is among all XG35VQs out there, only information technology's rare for me to buy or review a panel with a dead pixel, then brand of this what you will.