HDR performance
The PG34WCDM is an HDR beast, I can assure you of that. My son (16 years old), who normally only plays games in SDR on 360 Hz IPS, was allowed to let off steam with the monitor in HDR for a few days. Feedback: “Dad, can I keep the monitor? This thing is so cool…” We basically played Warzone in HDR together and got up to mischief on the map. But before I go on raving, let’s take a look at the measurements. ASUS offers the choice between:
Info in advance: Please deactivate “Standardize brightness” in HDR and activate Adjustable brightness. Then set the general brightness to 100. Otherwise you will not reach the maximum peak brightness. Otherwise HDR will look like this:
Console HDR @ 10 percent APL
HDR True Black 400
Let’s call this the True Black 400 mode. The image is clearly too dark, which in the end can also be measured in very high DeltaE values. The EOTF tracking says it all. The focus must be on the values with luminance! Now let’s activate the peak brightness mode.
Console HDR (Peak Brightness on)
That looks worlds better. Not perfect, but very good – impressively good, to be honest. Other manufacturers can take a leaf out of this book. I have only summarized the other two HDR options in terms of Gray Scale Tracking and Brightness vs. Window Sizes.
Gaming HDR (Peak Brightness on)
Cinema HDR (Peak Brightness on)
Interim conclusion HDR
The PG34WCDM is absolutely convincing when it comes to HDR. ASUS has established very good gray scale tracking – especially with a 10 percent APL. With smaller APLs (e.g. one percent), the PQ curve tends to get a little darker at the bottom and then gets too bright at the top. A trifle! You can certainly tolerate this, because I have had significantly worse monitors in my test.
The only thing I can/must say here is that the LG OLED panel is somewhat weaker than QD OLED when it comes to color luminance. Yellow colors in particular are sometimes not displayed as vividly as my OLED G8, for example. However, you can only see this when the two monitors are next to each other. In my opinion, it’s ultimately a matter of taste – as always. But it’s best to compare for yourself:
- 1 - Introduction, Features and Specs
- 2 - Workmanship and Details
- 3 - How we measure: Equipment and Methods
- 4 - Pixel Response Times
- 5 - Display Latencies
- 6 - Color-Performance @ Default Settings
- 7 - Direct Comparison and Power Consumption
- 8 - Color-Performance calibrated
- 9 - HDR-Performance
- 10 - Summary and Conclusion
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