Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx quick review – Weird Name, Good Game

LaptopMedia.com Reviews and Analysis Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx quick review - Weird Name, Good Game Page 2

From: Severin Kolakov 03 November 2023 / 11:30 0

2. Display quality, Buy our profiles, Verdict

1. Intro, Specs, Drivers, What’s in the box Previous page Next page

Display quality, Buy our profiles, Verdict

The Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx has a quality IPS panel with a Full HD resolution and a super-swift 240Hz refresh rate. So far all of the other monitors that we’ve reviewed have come with FreeSync and FreeSync Premium technology, which delivers a tear-free gaming experience at higher framerates. This is especially important for fast-paced gameplay in esports games and shooters. What this Acer monitor has up its sleeve is G-Sync support, which is basically the same technology but made by NVIDIA. This way it’s proprietary and only works for NVIDIA GPUs, in contrast to AMD’s FreeSync, which is open source and can be implemented by both Team Red and Team Green cards.

G-Sync is a bit different, in the way that it has a very wide range, so you can take advantage of tech even at lower framerates. The refresh rate is also very high here, at 240Hz, and with the 1ms response time, it sure looks like a great monitor for competitive gamers. The monitor also supports Vesa-certified DisplayHDR 400, which means better contrast, 8-bit colors, as well as more tonal and color variety. And in terms of colors, this monitor is quite good, offering rich coverage, more on which you can find out below.

Here’s an illustration (Fig. 1). The whole “sail-shaped” map below consists of all the colors we can see, while the black crooked line shows all the colors from real-world scenes and nature around us.

Then, we’ve drawn some of the most important and interesting color spaces, compared to the colors the panel of Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx can show:

Standard/For Web: sRGB – widely used color space for most consumer devices, ideal for Web design and development
For Print/Photographers: AdobeRGB – used in professional photo editing, graphic design, and print
For Movie/Video Editors: DCI-P3 – used in high-end film production, post-production, and digital cinema
Premium HDR: Rec.2020 – the widest consumer ITU color standard, covering a massive 75.8% of the visible spectrum, a benchmark for premium HDR content

Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx: the yellow dashed triangle (– – – – – –) represents the range of colors this monitor can display. The coverage of the monitor exceeds the sRGB values in the greens and blues, however, the reds come up a bit short. All in all, we calculated a 96.1% sRGB coverage.

(Fig.1) Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx covers 96.1% of the Web colors (sRGB)

So what would happen if Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx tries to show the bright Green color on the top left of the Rec.2020 Color Space? It will show the closest color it’s capable of which is a washed-out version of the one you see there.

Color accuracy

Now let’s see how big is the difference between the real colors and the one you’ll see on the Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx. We measure that distance in DeltaE – the bigger the number, the more different they look.

Good news, everyone. Thanks to the wide sRGB color coverage we managed to create a profile that makes the screen much more accurate compared to its factory state. For the next illustration, we’ve chosen 24 common colors like dark and light skin, blue sky, green grass, etc.

Values below 2.0 are considered suitable for color-sensitive work. Before our calibration of Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx, the Average color accuracy was 3.4 dE (Fig. 2), and with our Web Design and Office Work profile, it reaches 1.4 dE (Fig. 3)! This is an almost 2.5x increase in accuracy.

All you have to do is enable the Web Design and Office Work profile in the LM Profiles app.

(Fig. 2) Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx in its factory condition

(Fig. 3) Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx with our display profiles

Comparison in the sRGB color space (primaries and D65 white point specified in ITU-R BT.709, sRGB encoding curve).

Left: No Profile | Drag the slider to see the difference | Right: Design & Gaming Profile

Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom-tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate (they may seem strange at first but after a few minutes our brain will start recognizing them as accurate ones – that’s how Health-Guard differs from alternatives like f.lux).

Pro Tip: As the Health-Guard profile simulates paper and has as accurate as possible colors, it could be a great tool for prepress designers!

Left: No Profile | Drag the slider to see the difference | Right: Health-Guard Profile

BUY OUR DISPLAY PROFILES

This isn’t the only good improvement you get using the Web Design and Office Work profile, though. It also aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), and an optimal color temperature (6500K). This is very important for those who often read texts or look at tables on their screen.

There are two more profiles in our bundle – Gaming and Movies, and Health-Guard. The former regulates the first steps out of black so you can have even faster reflexes when playing in dark virtual environments…or just see everything in the darkest scenes in movies. The latter eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom-tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate (they may seem strange at first but after a few minutes our brain will start recognizing them as accurate ones – that’s how Health-Guard differs from alternatives like f.lux).

In addition to receiving efficient and health-friendly profiles, by buying LaptopMedia's products you also support the development of our labs, where we test devices in order to produce the most objective reviews possible.

Office Work

Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.

$9.90 BUY NOW

Design and Gaming

This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.

$9.90 BUY NOW

Health-Guard

Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.

$9.90 BUY NOW

Get all 3 profiles with 33% discount

$19.90 BUY NOW

Since our profiles are tailored for each individual display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx.

*Should you have problems with downloading the purchased file, try using a different browser to open the link you’ll receive via e-mail. If the download target is a .php file instead of an archive, change the file extension to .zip or contact us at [email protected].

Verdict

The Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx is a standout gaming monitor, which also comes at a decent price. It’s not the most affordable option, however, you do get a ton of value from it.

The high refresh rate and low response times, as well as the G-Sync support, make it an ideal option to partner with a powerful PC or Laptop. Of course, pick an NVIDIA-powered machine, otherwise, the G-Sync will contribute diddly squat to your gaming experience.

As for the designers and creators who are reading this, the Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx will suit you well, especially if you mix the creator and gamer parts together. Editor by day, gamer, and streamer by night is the recipe with this monitor, and thanks to our display profiles that we’ve been cooking, it all fits perfectly into place. With our profile, we managed to increase the accuracy almost 2.5 times, certainly putting it within a range that’s suitable for all types of color work.

You can check the current price of the Acer Nitro VG252QXbmiipx here: Buy from Amazon.com (#CommissionsEarned)