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.
Gigabyte positions the Aero 15 as a versatile all-rounder, yet while it ticks many boxes, it isn't ideally suited to content creators who require extreme colour coverage. The WVA panel, identified as CMN15D7, covers 97 of the sRGB space and 75 per cent of the Adobe RGB. That's a tad more than the Razer Blade, but not a patch on the Dell XPS 15.
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 and Gigabyte scores well in this department - the X-Rite Pantone calibration is proving its worth.
Brightness is good, peaking at just over 300 nits, and both black level and contrast are decent if not spectacular. This is a well-rounded 15.6in display with viewing angles that are almost on par with IPS, and it's interesting to note that Gigabyte has opted against G-Sync adaptive framerate technology in favour of Optimus GPU switching. What that means is that the Aero 15 sacrifices a little in terms of gaming smoothness in favour of greater battery life, which we'll be putting to the test shortly.
