Color Performance

Before I get into color testing, let's look at uniformity. After all, this is a curved display where uniformity is oftentimes an upshot. While results hither aren't amazing and most flat panels volition produce a noticeably more than even image, the GN32LD is on par with other curved displays in this metric. The edges of this display are inaccurate relative to the eye, giving a slight vignette-style appearance, but I'm yet to utilise a curved monitor where this isn't an issue.

Default Mill Functioning

Testing this monitor straight out of the box it's quite clear that Viotek has spent very trivial time calibrating the display to any sort of color standard. DeltaE values beyond our standard color accuracy tests exceed four.0 from the manufacturing plant, and the color temperature is a surprisingly warm 5894K on average, beneath what is required. On top of that, the "2.2 gamma" mode the panel is gear up to past default does not produce 2.two gamma, but ii.0 gamma, and colors in full general are left unchecked so the monitor is more saturated than information technology should be while displaying sRGB imagery.

Performance After OSD Control Calibration

The expert news is the monitor is quite calibrateable (if that's a word), and you can make several central corrections simply through the on-screen display. Using these settings here, I was able to correct the gamma issue (bizarrely gamma 2.4 gives a correct ii.2 value) and tighten upwardly the colour temperature, which improves the greyscale deltaE average to below ii.0, ane of the better results I've seen just by adjusting OSD settings. Saturation and ColorChecker results improve as well.

Fully Calibrated Performance

Like with well-nigh monitors, you're not going to go the best results unless you perform a full calibration. The adept news is a fully calibrated GN32LD is very accurate, with deltaEs below 1.0 indicating the monitor is well suited to color accurate work. Achieving this level of scale only resulted in a small hit to brightness and dissimilarity ratio, and this VA panel has a lot of headroom in those departments.

Of course I don't think many professionals would want to use a curved display for content cosmos, and the uniformity issues foreclose the panel from being superb in terms of color accuracy. Simply if y'all want your GN32LD to be accurate, it'southward only a short calibration run away.