Grayscale, color fidelity, saturation and gamut to factory settings
For the sake of completeness, I also want/must look at this topic. Even if it is a bit pointless to look at the color performance of a monitor that is built for one purpose only – eSports. I don’t think eSports players prefer the D65 with a Color Accuracy Delta E 0.3. If you play on a 1080p monitor 800 x 600 stretched, use NVIDIA digital vibrance and Shadow Boost settings, you will keep only one thing from ColorChecker – distance!
For this reason, I did look at the default mode (OSD FPS 1), but after consulting BenQ, the mode is optimized for CS:GO. So it makes little sense to look at a mode in terms of Color Accuracy that is specifically optimized to recognize other players as well and as quickly as possible.
Color space coverage
The TN panel can cover the sRGB color space. More is not necessary, because NVIDIA’s digital vibrance provides more. I’ll also spare us the rest of the slides about P3, etc.
Gray Scale, Saturation, ColorChecker @ OSD Standard Setting
It doesn’t look that bad in terms of white point. The deviations are mainly due to gamma 2.6, which was the default setting in my sample. In any case, the high contrast of almost 1100:1 is striking, which is very good for a TN panel.
Gray Scale, Saturation, ColorChecker @ OSD Gamma-Setting 2, CCT Correction
If you like it a bit better, you can set the OSD gamma to 2 and adjust the white point with the colorimeter. But you don’t have to. In my case it looks like this.
A software calibration would now be another possibility to put the icing on the cake. But seriously – calibrating a TN-based eSports monitor – who does that?
OSD settings for D65, gamma 2.2 @ 200 nits
In case anyone is dying to know what the settings are for sRGB white point and gamma 2.2.
Uniformity
Image uniformity is – not perfect – but good average. Since it is a TN panel, there is also no IPS bleeding or glowing.
Image errors
Dead pixels, flickers and other problems regarding Adaptive Sync could not be found. My two test cards, the RTX 4090 and the RX 7900 XT worked very well with the XL2566K. However, I have to point out the issue of viewing angle stability. You always have to look at a TN panel “dead-on”. As soon as you look at the display from an oblique angle, the colors etc. blur. See pictures.
But honestly, who sits at a 45 degree angle to a 24″ screen? That’s right, no one! So the disadvantage compared to IPS or OLED basically doesn’t matter
Sound reproduction
BenQ has dispensed with speakers in the XL2566K. You don’t need them, since eSportsmen almost certainly use a good headset. Those who want to connect headphones to the monitor can do so. The 3.5 mm jack works, that’s for sure.
Webcam and Microphone
The XL2566K doesn’t offer anything like that, why should it? Let’s take a quick look at brightness, color performance in comparison and power consumption. Next to last page please…
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