All in all it’s a reasonable setup in HDR mode, although the image does look a bit washed out and there are some higher errors in these measurements if you consider luminance error as well (not shown above). It should be fine for HDR gaming and movies really, but isn’t accurate enough for any HDR content creation or professional work. Conclusion If competitive gaming is your jam, you’ll be very satisfied with the responsiveness of the AG274QZM. As they say, frames win games, and the combination of fast 240 Hz refresh and low input lag make this a superb display for fast-paced titles. Pixel response is very good, averaging <15ms in most scenarios. Combine this with both G-Sync and FreeSync support and you’ve got a very capable display.

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Your phone adjusts brightness regardless of whether the sun is directly hitting it or not. Ambient light levels are much higher outside of course but that wasn't the point of my example, it was to point out that higher ambient light levels require higher levels of brightness to properly see the screen. Surely you did not think that I was saying that outside midday lighting is normal inside lighting.Sorry maybe I ran with it a bit - but I do believe you also ran a bit with the LCD is better stance 'because of higher brightness'. Bright screens were never a real perk, and when OLED's 'benefit wanes', is not generally the situation where it matters - when it does matter, you'll make sure its benefit doesn't wane by just closing a curtain.

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Brightness and contrast uniformity is very good, with the AG274QZM recording consistent results all across the display. The brightness uniformity, in particular, was excellent – the largest deviation was just 5.5% (34 cd/m 2) but the average was below 2% across the majority of the screen. Contrast was also very consistent – a peak of 6.3% was recorded across the rightmost fifth of the display, but this lowered towards the centre and deviation remained below 2% left of the centre. This is all but imperceptible to the naked eye and a superb result for the AG274QZM. From a little projector on the bottom part of the stand shines an AOC AGON logo on to your desktop, or you can turn this off in the menu if you’d rather (you can also disable the RGB lighting if you want). Don’t expect much from the pair of 5W speakers, either. They’re loud, but the sound is muddy and doesn’t have much bass. Use external units or a headset and you’ll have a much better time. Image Quality

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For workday tasks, the AG274QG is a great tool. Its 109 ppi pixel density is well suited for text or graphical documents. Whether running Photoshop or Word, you’ll see your work clearly with excellent contrast and vivid color where appropriate. Apart from that, HDR is implemented well and really shines in brighter scenes. Whether it was traveling across a dusty desert in Horizon Zero Dawn with the sun overhead, or swinging through a snowy Manhattan in Spider-Man: Miles Morales, there is a richness and depth to the colors and highlights that are more discernible than in SDR. This is likely due to the panel’s ability to output true 10-bit color when HDR is enabled, even at 240Hz. Still, when exploring dark caves in Horizon Zero Dawn, it felt more “dusky” than truly dark. Poor out-of-the-box calibration

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Coverage is how much of the gamut is covered, whilst volume includes any colour that extends beyond the defined gamut. Think about that for a second. You take your phone outside and it automatically increases screen brightness so that elements on the screen are still visible. The same concept applies here, the more ambient light, the higher brightness that is required to keep the display visible. The 27-inch AGON PRO tournament gaming monitor comes with 2K Quad HD 2560x1440 resolution IPS panel for excellent visuals. There is no integrated cable management system on the AGON AG274QZM, but AOC includes a pair of 3M-adhesive cable tidies to help keep your setup neat. Competitive gamers have long used the “Digital Vibrance” mode in the NVIDIA Control Panel to help make enemies pop and add more colour to scenes. The new class of 1440p G-SYNC esports displays have an enhanced vibrance mode – specifically tuned for esports – built directly into the monitor firmware. Dual-Format 25”

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It also sports decent contrast for an IPS panel. Monitors with local dimming zones typically rely on them to boost their contrast rating and can’t compete when it’s turned off. Take the Sony Inzone M9 for example, which dropped from a 1064:1 contrast ratio with local dimming enabled to only 935:1 when it was turned off. That isn’t the case with the AGON PRO, as I measured a respectable 1138:1 contrast ratio without local dimming, a bit better than the standard 1000:1 for these panels. All is not lost though, we can instead revert to some visual tests and provide some subjective assessment and pursuit camera photos that will help capture the real-world motion clarity and response time behaviour. We would have liked to include both of course, but this will have to suffice for this screen. Pursuit camera photos capturing real-world perceived motion clarity at max 170Hz refresh rate The screen in its native mode produces a wide gamut with saturated and vivid colours, and whether you would consider them “accurate” in this mode really depends on your target colour space. There is a very wide colour space extending far beyond the sRGB reference space (145.3% relative coverage). With the large over-coverage in red and green shades especially, you get large errors when viewing sRGB/SDR content (dE 4.8 average) as shown in the top half of the results above. This is common on all wide gamut screens, but its particularly inaccurate here because of the particularly wide colour space. sRGB colours would be considered ‘poor’ in this native mode.

The AOC AG274QG is a 27-inch QHD/IPS panel with 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR 600 and a wide color gamut.

Chrispy_I think that's the Achilles heel of mini-LED; The FALD arrays and their associated controller adds so much cost that the end result competes with OLED on price. While that is unfortunate, the local dimming can be turned off without affecting the contrast too much. What’s worse is that it also happens when HDR is enabled and disabling local dimming in that case makes it near unusable, resulting in a terrible, washed-out image. So, although this monitor is HDR1000 rated and certainly can hit those heights, I was disappointed by how it handled menus in dark games like Returnal, as the pure white text ends up looking dim and washed out.

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Colour saturation and gamut coverage are excellent. The AG274QZM provides rich and vivid colour without oversaturation. The panel in the AGON AG274QZM has true 10bit colour depth, allowing it to display up to 1.07 billion colours. It’s a practical panel, too. It’s got 120mm of height adjustment and tilt, swivel and pivot movement alongside 100mm VESA mount support. The KVM switch allows multiple PC or device control from one set of peripherals and on the side it has a headphone hook.The spec list will have gamers salivating: it’s Mini LED, runs at 240Hz and has a 1ms response time. It’s littered with RGB LEDs and even has a KVM switch for easy PC and console use. The screen supports only the normal HDR10 input signals of common HDR content, but like most other monitors it cannot support Dolby Vision or HLG. With HDR enabled there are 4 modes available in the OSD menu – labelled as DisplayHDR, HDR game, HDR movie and HDR picture. The OSD sections for luminance and colour setup are not available once HDR is enabled sadly, and so you are restricted to the screens default setup