PC Magazine - USA (2020-04)

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upstream port for connecting the monitor to your PC.


TESTING THE ELITE: AS GOOD AS GAMING GETS
The Elite XG270QG locked in its lofty Editors’ Choice with some eye-bugging
results on PC Labs’ standard monitor tests (not to mention my extensive
gaming, ahem, testing, sessions).


Color Gamut Coverage: To start our evaluation of the Elite XG270QG, I
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calibration software, a Klein K10-A colorimeter, and an X-Rite Pro 3 Plus
spectrometer. Almost every gaming monitor in the market does well in this test
that measures how web-based content will appear, generally covering 95 to 100
percent of the gamut.


In this case, the XG270QG proved an exception to the rule—in a good way—
with outstanding sRGB gamut coverage of 135 percent.


In the Adobe RGB measurement, which generally tells you how a display will do
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gaming monitor we’ve evaluated with a coverage level of 88.8 percent.

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