Power Consumption, Colour and Luminance Uniformity
Colour and luminance uniformity
Colour uniformity is very good. The panel displays an even colour to the naked eye, too, and we would have no problem in using the VA screen for extended periods of productivity.
Most monitors tend to fall foul of luminance uniformity test; the MSI is no exception, but it feels decent in everyday use. Viewing angles are good, too, and the subtle curve begins to grow on you after a day or two. Our sample exhibited no obvious backlight bleed or other image blemishes.
Quick foray into gaming
We hooked the screen up to a Core i7 machine touting a reference AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 card. Its framerate sweetspot is between 50-90fps at the native 2,560x,1440 resolution, making it a good, if expensive, fit for the MSI. With FreeSync active, gaming was smooth and enjoyable. Playing Middle-earth: Shadow of War is a hoot on ultra-level settings, and the lack of tearing and juddering is noticeable in fast-panning skirmishes. Total War: Warhammer II's performance usually sits at the lower end of the FreeSync scale. Here, the monitor would occasionally jump out of supported FreeSync range, inducing that dreaded tearing, so an upgrade to low-framerate compensation certainly wouldn't go amiss.
