Review note:
As is our standard operating procedure all testing was carried out at 120 cd/m2.
Uniformity
Optimally a panel should show perfect uniformity across the entirety of its screen real-estate. We have yet to see one exhibit perfection. Instead we consider 15% (i.e. plus or minus 7.5 percent) or lower to be extremely good, and 15 to 24 percent to be ‘good enough’. Anything above this does not meet our absolute minimum standards and will be considered a failure.
Like most curved panels there is going to be a bit more light leakage and lack of uniformity than a flat panel. This is just the nature of the beast. By the same token a variance of only 16 is pretty darn good. The EDG 34S is actually is one of the more uniform curved panels we have seen recently.
Response Rate
Even though a panel is rated in both milliseconds (response rate) and Hz (frame rate) the reality is this will give at best only a rough picture of a panels true abilities. Things such as ghosting, or worse still reverse ghosting, where there is more than one image displayed at a time will negatively impact enjoyment and immersion in fast paced scenarios. This is why we use a combination of PRAD’s Pixel Persistence Analyzer ‘Streaky Pictures’ program and a high-speed camera to capture real world response rate.
While the above image is the absolute best-case scenario for the Nixeus EDG34S… this is pretty much what you can expect when you throw enough horsepower at the problem. We captured multiple ‘perfect’ images of this bad boy in action. The absolute worst case was some very, very minor ghosting (and even then the actual image was clear with just a ‘shadow’ slightly behind it). Put simply the combination of FreeSync’s Adaptive-Sync and LFC technology with a 144Hz response rate is a winning one.
