AOC Q24G2A 165Hz 24″ IPS Gaming Monitor Review

Display Analysis

Right away, the monitor is delivering 100% of sRGB which is pretty much what all SDR content uses, so that’s great. AOC claim it’ll do 80.1 DCI-P3 and 80.5 of AdobeRGB, and we got pretty close to those figures, but it all depends on which profile you use, however, the default settings are good enough in my opinion.

Gamma

The display has three gamma settings. Gamma 1 is right on the money for our target of 2.2.

Gamma two output at 1.9, which is not ideal.

And three output Gamma 2.4, so in my opinion, leaving this on the default on Gamma 1 is best for an accurate image.

Grey Ramp

As you can see below, Gamma 1, 2 and 3 all put out a very good Grey Ramp result, with very little deviance, but Gamme 1 actually proved the best in this test too.

Brightness

The display has surprisingly powerful brightness, and at 100% it looks stunning. However, even more, impressive was its ability to maintain really constant contrast and good black levels.

The Warm setting is default and is the best for most uses, the sRGB mode is going to give you better black levels, but it cuts the peak brightness pretty much in half.

There is a small warmness colour spot in the bottom left, but that’s pretty common for an edge-lit panel, and honestly, at 3.3% deviance, I couldn’t really see this issue with my eye, only with the much more eagle-eyed monitor calibration tool. Overall though, the monitor is surprisingly uniform.

Colours

The blue is a little on the high side, but that’s pretty common for LCD panels, and really not something I’m concerned about. The default settings on this monitor are Warm and that puts the white point at 6900K, so the strong blue is pretty much a given. However, it’s really very accurate for everything else. Anything under 5 is good, anything under 3 the human eye can’t really see the inaccuracy, and the monitor scores an average of just 1.38, which is superb.

Overall

The Spyder software scored the monitor average for tone response, white point and luminance, and that’s fine, this is a more affordable display, so average I can live with. however, for Gamut and Contrast, it gets top makes, and scores very high for colour uniformity and accuracy too, where it would have scored full points if that accuracy of the blue could be refined, but I doubt you’d really notice in real-world usage.