Confused about NITS

[cmb713]

I keep reading these comparisons about the NITS on the Note 8 vs the iPhone 10. Older reviews state the Note8 is 1200 NITS of brightness but these recent comparisons say it's only 408 NITS and the iPhone is a record 574 NITS. Are there different kind of NITS that reviewers are comparing?? Why would the Note 8 NITS be inferior if they make all of them?

 

[cmb713]

Source:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...8DwgQFggzMAY&usg=AOvVaw3J4Gd3JF_MsjmTy7J17iH1

Since time immemorial, DisplayMate has done a review on the screen of Samsung's upcoming flagship just before launch. Well, it's that time of the year, and they're at it again with Samsung's Note8. As you'd expect, all the numbers look pretty fantastic. But the most shocking by far is the 1,200 nits of brightness that Samsung's latest can spit out. I hope everyone saved their eclipse glasses.

 

[cmb713]

Here's what CNET wrote:

The Note 8's screen has a maximum brightness of 1,200 nits (a unit of visible-light intensity) compared with about 1,000-nit peak the Galaxy S8 achieves. By comparison, the iPhone 7 has a peak brightness of 705 nits, according to DisplayMate.

 

[chanchan05]

Nope. But Samsung does artificially limit the phone's manual max brightness to decrease chance of burn in. So if you turn off auto brightness and set it to max brightness, you only achieve over 400 nits. Same with iPhone but they set it higher. The Note 8 and iPhone X reaches 1200 and 700 nits respectively on autobrightness mode. They have a feature which some people call overdrive mode which cranks brightness to max of screen capability while under sunlight for a few minutes to allow visibility.

 

[j_hansen]

forget about nits, screen on the Note 8 is so bloody damn good I find it hard to use at more than 50% brightness unless watching a movie

 

[cmb713]

Totally agree! I love the Note 8 screen. Also I never see any blue tint when tilting. So I just maxed out the screen brightness with auto on and practically blinded myself. So if the iPhone x goes higher than that, I don't see why anyone would care.

 

[donm527]

Here...

http://www.displaymate.com/iPhoneX_ShootOut_1a.htm


"The iPhone X has a record high Full Screen Brightness for OLED Smartphones of 634 nits, which improves screen visibility in high Ambient Light. The Samsung Galaxy Note8 can produce up to 1,240 nits, but only for small portions of the screen area (Low Average Picture Levels) – for Full Screen Brightness the Note8 can produce up to 423 nits with Manual Brightness and 560 nits with Automatic Brightness only in High Ambient Light. For small portions of the screen area the iPhone X can produce up to 809 nits (Low Average Picture Levels). On its Home Screen the iPhone X produces an impressively bright 726 nits. See the Screen Brightness section for the measurements and details."

I keep reading these comparisons about the NITS on the Note 8 vs the iPhone 10. Older reviews state the Note8 is 1200 NITS of brightness but these recent comparisons say it's only 408 NITS and the iPhone is a record 574 NITS. Are there different kind of NITS that reviewers are comparing?? Why would the Note 8 NITS be inferior if they make all of them?

 

[cmb713]

Thanks! I'm just thinking how the average consumer would interpret that. I don't think I recall the Note8 reviews stating only on small parts of the screen until after the iPhone came out. Here's something I keep wondering about the iPhone screen- are the reviewers counting the screen size from one corner to the top notch corner or under the notch? Is it 5.8 with the notch or more like 5.4 up to the notch? I don't consider the notch area useable display space.

 

[Fred98TJ]

The iPhone X has the best display that displaymate has ever tested and , yes, they have tested the Note 8. .
Please no one get their pants all twisted up. Just reporting what displaymate said and many people here put displaymate test 2nd to none.

 

[Jewels81]

forget about nits, screen on the Note 8 is so bloody damn good I find it hard to use at more than 50% brightness unless watching a movie

Lol this