The Best Notebook Displays As Reviewed By Notebookcheck

Staff, 05/25/2018

June 2019 Update. Is the display the most important part of a notebook, tablet, or convertible for you and does it play a leading role in your purchasing decision? Our overview of the best displays in current notebooks as reviewed by Notebookcheck might be helpful for you.

As part of our tests, we put much effort into analyzing the displays on our devices of all kinds and sizes. The results have a considerable impact on our total rating. The display has to convince in many aspects for a top display rating. The following criteria influence it: average brightness, distribution of brightness, black value, contrast, color precision in the Calman Colorchecker and Grayscale test (sRGB), covered color space, viewing angles, PWM, response time, level of adverse effects of clouding and glare and fineness of the resolution.

The following table shows an overview over the most important aspects and measurement values of the Top 25 displays reviewed in the last 12 months by Notebookcheck. Since we have recently started measuring PWM and response times, these values are not available for older models. The table can be sorted by clicking the headers and filtered by entering text (e.g. "matte") in the text field below.

Note: The value "0" in a PWM measurement means that we could not detect PWM.

Best Notebook Displays as of June 2019

Rank	Date	Display Rating	Modell	Screen	Resolution	PPI	Ratio	Surface	CCT	Uni- formity	PWM	Res- ponse Time B/W	Res- ponse Time G/G	Brightness avg.	Black Level	Contrast (max.)	DeltaE Color	DeltaE Gray	Gamma	% of sRGB	% of Adobe RGB
1	03/2019	93 %	Gigabyte Aero 15-Y9 Intel Core i9-8950HK NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 64 GB Memory, 2048 GB NVMe	15.6"	3840x2160	282 PPI	16:9	matte	6672	92 cd/m²	0	28.8	60	337 cd/m²	0.29 cd/m²	1207:1	0.93	1.21	2.2	100 %	88 %
2	11/2018	93 %	Apple iPad Pro 12.9 2018 Apple A12X Bionic Apple A12X Bionic GPU 4 GB Memory, 256 GB NVMe	12.9"	2732x2048	265 PPI	4:3	glossy	6794	91 cd/m²	0	23.2	49.6	605 cd/m²	0.32 cd/m²	1975:1	1.1	1.7	2.21
3	12/2018	93 %	Razer Blade Stealth i7-8565U Intel Core i7-8565U NVIDIA GeForce MX150 16 GB Memory, SSD	13.3"	1920x1080	166 PPI	16:9	matte	6452	89 cd/m²	22730	34	57.6	403 cd/m²	0.32 cd/m²	1343:1	1.08	1.3	2.23	96.3 %	61.4 %
4	07/2018	93 %	Apple MacBook Pro 13 2018 Touchbar i5 Intel Core i5-8259U Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 8 GB Memory	13.3"	2560x1600	227 PPI	16:10	glossy	6908	95 cd/m²	118000	32	46	504 cd/m²	0.33 cd/m²	1573:1	1.4	2.2	2.22	99.99 %	77.3 %
5	12/2017	91 %	Lenovo ThinkPad P71-20HK0004GE Intel Core i7-7820HQ NVIDIA Quadro P3000 16 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD	17.3"	3840x2160	255 PPI	16:9		6216	83 cd/m²	1412	23.2	39.2	338 cd/m²	0.31 cd/m²	1155:1	2.1	2	2.16	99.97 %	77 %
6	06/2017	93 %	Lenovo ThinkPad P51 20HH0016GE Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6 NVIDIA Quadro M2200 16 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD	15.6"	3840x2160	282 PPI	16:9	matte	6077	89 cd/m²	0	25.2	40.8	309 cd/m²	0.36 cd/m²	881:1	2.7	3	2.27	99.5 %	87.6 %
7	10/2017	92 %	HP ZBook Studio G4-Y6K17EA Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6 NVIDIA Quadro M1200 32 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD	15.6"	3840x2160	282 PPI	16:9	matte	6273	78 cd/m²	1497	30	44.8	338 cd/m²	0.3 cd/m²	1080:1	1.6	2.5	2.21	98.9 %	85.7 %
8	10/2018	92 %	Microsoft Surface Go MHN-00003 Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y Intel UHD Graphics 615 4 GB Memory, 64 GB eMMC	10"	1800x1200	216 PPI	3:2	glossy	6687	88 cd/m²	1020	25.6	44	426 cd/m²	0.31 cd/m²	1471:1	1.3	1.4	2.24	96.8 %	62.3 %
9	07/2018	91 %	Apple MacBook Pro 15 2018 (2.6 GHz, 560X) Intel Core i7-8850H AMD Radeon Pro 560X 16 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD	15.4"	2880x1800	221 PPI	16:10	glossy	6738	88 cd/m²	117000	31.2	43.2	492 cd/m²	0.39 cd/m²	1333:1	1.2	1.3	2.18
10	11/2018	91 %	Apple iPad Pro 11 2018 Apple A12X Bionic Apple A12X Bionic GPU 4 GB Memory, 64 GB NVMe	11"	2388x1668	265 PPI	2.86:2	glossy	6656	87 cd/m²	0	36	54	591 cd/m²	0.45 cd/m²	1420:1	0.92	1.3	2.22
11	09/2018	90 %	Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G6-20KG0025UK Intel Core i5-8350U Intel UHD Graphics 620 8 GB Memory, 256 GB SSD	14"	1920x1080	157 PPI	16:9	matte	6571	91 cd/m²	0	25	40	287 cd/m²	0.2 cd/m²	1490:1	2.19	1.97	2.43	95 %	62 %
12	12/2017	92 %	Lenovo IdeaPad 320S-13IKB Intel Core i5-8250U NVIDIA GeForce MX150 8 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD	13.3"	1920x1080	166 PPI	16:9	matte	6588	88 cd/m²	198.4	31.6	56.8	304 cd/m²	0.25 cd/m²	1320:1	1.8	2.5	2.11	97.3 %	61.8 %
13	04/2018	90 %	Gigabyte Aero 14-K8 Intel Core i7-8750H NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile 16 GB Memory, 525 GB SSD	14"	2560x1440	210 PPI	16:9	matte	6422	90 cd/m²	0	34	47.2	250 cd/m²	0.28 cd/m²	914:1	1.21	1.13	2.42	96 %	62 %
14	03/2019	91 %	MSI GE75 8SF Intel Core i7-8750H NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile 16 GB Memory, 256 GB SSD	17.3"	1920x1080	127 PPI	16:9	matte	6747	89 cd/m²	25770	10.4	9.6	348 cd/m²	0.29 cd/m²	1277:1	1.26	1.4	2.2	94.4 %	59.7 %
15	10/2018	89 %	HP Envy 13-ah0003ng Intel Core i7-8550U NVIDIA GeForce MX150 16 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD	13.3"	1920x1080	166 PPI	16:9	matte	6291	85 cd/m²	1000	24	31	310 cd/m²	0.23 cd/m²	1257:1	1.64	1.71	2.32	82 %	52 %
16	05/2018	90 %	HP EliteBook 840 G5-3JX61EA Intel Core i7-8550U Intel UHD Graphics 620 32 GB Memory, 1024 GB SSD	14"	1920x1080	157 PPI	16:9	matte	6065	93 cd/m²	3125	26	33	630 cd/m²	0.56 cd/m²	1170:1	3.27	2.85	2.45	88 %	57 %
17	03/2019	91 %	MSI GS75 8SG Stealth Intel Core i7-8750H NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 32 GB Memory, 1024 GB SSD	17.3"	1920x1080	127 PPI	16:9	matte	6893	85 cd/m²	25510	9.6	7.6	327 cd/m²	0.26 cd/m²	1365:1	1.54	2.19	2.42	95 %	61 %
18	11/2017	91 %	Microsoft Surface Book 2 Intel Core i7-8650U NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 8 GB Memory, 256 GB SSD	13.5"	3000x2000	267 PPI	3:2	glossy	6502	89 cd/m²	0	30	52.8	372 cd/m²	0.21 cd/m²	1833:1	1.6	1.5	2.22	95.9 %	64 %
19	04/2018	91 %	Gigabyte Aero 15X v8 Intel Core i7-8750H NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 16 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD	15.6"	1920x1080	141 PPI	16:9	matte	6550	78 cd/m²	0	11.2	16.8	300 cd/m²	0.33 cd/m²	948:1	1.29	0.69	2.43	94 %	60 %
20	05/2019 New!	90 %	Lenovo ThinkPad T490s-20NYS02A00 Intel Core i5-8265U Intel UHD Graphics 620 16 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD	14"	1920x1080	157 PPI	16:9	matte	6809	87 cd/m²	0	38.8	61.6	389 cd/m²	0.23 cd/m²	1700:1	3.4	4	2.49	97.4 %	62.4 %
21	05/2019 New!	91 %	Razer Blade 15 RTX 2080 Max-Q Intel Core i7-9750H NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 16 GB Memory, 512 GB NVMe	15.6"	1920x1080	141 PPI	16:9	matte	6758	87 cd/m²	23810	10.4	12.8	270 cd/m²	0.29 cd/m²	1010:1	1.69	2.3	2.3	98.5 %	63 %
22	09/2018	91 %	Acer Predator Helios 500 PH517-51-93LS Intel Core i9-8950HK NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 32 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD	17.3"	3840x2160	255 PPI	16:9	matte	6616	86 cd/m²	0	24.4	36	349 cd/m²	0.46 cd/m²	796:1	2.9	3.5	2.37	100 %	88.1 %
23	04/2018	91 %	Aorus X9 DT Intel Core i9-8950HK NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 32 GB Memory, SSD	17.3"	1920x1080	127 PPI	16:9	matte	6494	86 cd/m²	0	12	18.4	262 cd/m²	0.22 cd/m²	1273:1	1.78	0.74	2.43	92 %	60 %
24	04/2018	91 %	Lenovo ThinkPad T580-20LAS01H00 Intel Core i7-8550U NVIDIA GeForce MX150 8 GB Memory, 512 GB NVMe	15.6"	3840x2160	282 PPI	16:9	matte	6876	87 cd/m²	952.4	29.6	51.2	283 cd/m²	0.24 cd/m²	1292:1	3.1	2.3	2.21	90.1 %	59.1 %
25	07/2018	88 %	Schenker XMG Neo 15 Intel Core i7-8750H NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 16 GB Memory, 1024 GB SSD	15.6"	1920x1080	141 PPI	16:9	matte	6872	90 cd/m²	0	9.6	16	303 cd/m²	0.33 cd/m²	985:1	2.69	2.34	2.38	94 %	60 %
26	05/2018	91 %	Dell Latitude 7390 Intel Core i7-8650U Intel UHD Graphics 620 8 GB Memory, 256 GB SSD	13.3"	1920x1080	166 PPI	16:9	matte	6323	86 cd/m²	0	30.4	36.8	289 cd/m²	0.31 cd/m²	980:1	2.9	3.7	2.118	95 %	63 %
27	02/2019	91 %	Asus Zephyrus S GX701GX Intel Core i7-8750H NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 24 GB Memory, 1024 GB NVMe	17.3"	1920x1080	127 PPI	16:9	matte	6710	91 cd/m²	0	9.6	7.2	287 cd/m²	0.2 cd/m²	1440:1	2.33	1.19	2.41	88 %	57 %
28	02/2019	90 %	HP Elitebook x360 1040 G5 Intel Core i7-8650U Intel UHD Graphics 620 16 GB Memory, 512 GB NVMe	14"	1920x1080	157 PPI	16:9	matte	6623	89 cd/m²	735.3	34.4	70.8	400 cd/m²	0.29 cd/m²	1436:1	2.69	2.9	2.4	94.5 %	60.1 %
29	09/2018	88 %	MSI Prestige PS42 8RB-059 Intel Core i7-8550U NVIDIA GeForce MX150 16 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD	14"	1920x1080	157 PPI	16:9	matte	6699	86 cd/m²	25000	24.8	34.4	269 cd/m²	0.31 cd/m²	921:1	1	1.4	2.25	98.91 %	63.82 %
30	05/2019 New!	90 %	Lenovo ThinkPad X390-20Q1S02M00 Intel Core i5-8265U Intel UHD Graphics 620 16 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD	13.3"	1920x1080	166 PPI	16:9	matte	6374	88 cd/m²	0	34	57.6	336 cd/m²	0.16 cd/m²	2225:1	3.6	4.7	2.48	95.7 %	61.3 %

All results stem from measurements in delivery state. A complete list of all devices reviewed by Notebookcheck ordered by display rating is available in our search page.

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