Philips Evnia 8000 34″ Curved QD OLED Gaming Monitor Review

Display Analysis

Before calibration, the monitor hit a truly astonishing 98% of DCI-P3, and that’s in SDR mode too, so this monitor can really generate colours that are ahead of just about anything else we’ve had in for review.

Amazingly, I calibrated it using pro equipment and software and actually made it fractionally worse. Just leave the monitor in the standard profile, and adjust the brightness to suit your taste, that’s it, not a single thing else.

Near perfect mapping on the gamma, the monitor supports other gamma profiles and they all seem to hit their mark too, but 2.2 is typically what you want for movies and gaming on PC.

A little wobble in the Grey Ramp, and I do mean little. The max deviation is just 130 Kelvin from around 25% to 65% which is one of the smallest I’ve ever seen, this is a real fantastic result overall.

As expected, the colour accuracy is god-tier. Anything under 5 is good, under 3, it’s hard for the untrained eye to spot accuracy flaws, but being largely under 1? Well, that’s as tight or tighter than what I’ve seen on many professional colour-grading displays. The 1E and 2E sit around 2 Delta-E and I think that some quirk of the OLED technology.

My calibration improved those results, but the black and blue went nuts, and as I said, the Spyder Elite calibration tool made things worse… stock settings are god-tier, that’s all you need.