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.
The GT83VR 6RF uses the same 18.4in display as last year's model. It manages 98 per cent of the sRGB space and 78 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. An overall score of 1.20 is comparable to a good-quality desktop display.
Brightness is decent at 347 nits and the matte finish minimises reflections, however black levels and contrast could be better. This remains a serviceable 18.4in panel whose greatest strength is its size, yet at this price point MSI needs to find a way to implement a higher-resolution alternative with G-Sync technology.
