NZXT Canvas 25F Review – High-refresh rate gaming in 1080p but expensive and ex-factory without Stand

1 - Introduction, Features and Specs 2 - Workmanship and Details 3 - How we measure: Equipment and Methods 4 - Pixel Response Times 5 - Variable Overdrive 6 - Display Latencies 7 - Color-Performance @ Default Settings 8 - Direct Comparison 9 - Color-Performance calibrated 10 - Summary and Conclusion

Grayscale, color fidelity, saturation and gamut to factory settings

The IPS panel just about manages to call itself a wide gamut panel. The color performance is also surprisingly quite good. But look for yourself.

Color space coverage

With 90% DCI-P3 color space coverage, the Canvas 25F makes it into the league – wide gamut monitor. From my point of view too little for professional users (creators), but for gamers a nice feature. Many people love it when you can display the colors a bit crisper or more brilliant on the panel. I belong to that group – when it comes to gambling, too. Yeah, the guy who always talks about color accuracy. For gaming, I say: Color Accuracy and Saturation my ass. 😉

Colorspace sRGB

Colorspace P3

Colorspace Adobe RGB

Rec. 2020

Gray Scale, Saturation, ColorChecker @ Default

Gray Scale Default

Saturation Default

ColorChecker Default

Surprising and gratifying at the same time. NZXT has managed not to let the monitor drift away completely. At least not in the default (standard) mode. Very nice, because you can enjoy sRGB content at any time without it being rendered completely overdone. The contrast was 900:1 and thus not quite at the advertised 1000:1, which I personally don’t find too bad. Matter of taste. I haven’t looked at what the other “pre-sets” look like, as they are purely geared towards gaming. That brings us back to the purpose of the monitor. Actually nothing for Creator…