Benchmarks: Display
Some of the biggest advancements in modern laptops revolve around the capabilities of the display panel. To provide a more meaningful overview of panel characteristics, we're deploying Datacolor's Spyder 4 Elite professional monitor analyser to return a quantitative assessment of display quality.
Sharp's 15.6in SHP1436 panel now features in a range of Gigabyte and Aorus laptops and it's an enjoyable display covering 99 per cent of the sRGB space and 76 per cent of the Adobe RGB.
Being able to display a wide gamut of colours is helpful, yet the colours themselves still need to deliver in terms of accuracy. In the above chart, the Delta-E figure corresponds to how close the displayed colours match up with real life and the lower the overall result, the better. Any figure below two is considered very good, meaning the Sharp panel is impressive on this front.
Contrast is good however maximum brightness isn't quite as high as we'd like. A matte coating helps minimise reflections, yet for outdoor visibility we look for at least 250 nits of brightness.
