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Our review of the Innocn GA27T1M is now live. This is a A 27″ 320Hz (345Hz OC) 2560 x 1440 ‘1440p’ QHD IPS monitor with 1152-zone Mini LED backlight. HDMI 2.1 is also included to broaden console compatibility, alongside a 120Hz ‘4K’ UHD downsampling mode. This monitor provided offered your typical IPS contrast experience, with ~1200:1 static contrast and moderate ‘IPS glow’. Until local dimming was enabled, that is, which transformed the contrast experience. The algorithm was well-tuned and flexible and translated well to the higher brightness levels supported under HDR. The monitor provided strengths on the colour reproduction side, with generous DCI-P3 (and very generous Adobe RGB) coverage from its QD LED backlight alongside colour space emulation settings.

The responsiveness was significantly better than competing VA alternatives but not up there with the fastest IPS models – enough to deliver a decent experience at up to 345Hz. VRR also worked as hoped, without unintended flickering. And a strobe backlight setting called MPCS Tech was included which was decent and surprisingly flexible (you could even use local dimming at the same time), but didn’t work well under VRR. Overall this is a nice OLED alternative for those not wanting to go down the OLED route (burn-in concerns, subpixel-related fringing, VRR flickering etc.). It can’t compete with OLED for intricate shade combinations or smaller bright highlight details as it doesn’t have ~3.7 million dimming zones, but it provides an immersive HDR experience with superior sustained brightness levels for bright-dominant scenes.

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