The iPhone 14 Pro Max boasts the best smartphone display on the market, according to DisplayMate’s annual Display Technology Shoot-Out. The device earned the “DisplayMate Best Smartphone Display Award” with an A+ Display Performance grade, replacing last year’s winner, the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Apple has added a number of notable improvements to the iPhone 14 Pro Max display. The LTPO OLED display ranges from 1Hz to 120Hz instead of 10Hz to 120Hz, enabling a low-power always-on display option, plus there’s more available display area with the Dynamic Island.
The iPhone 14 Pro Max is able to hit a peak brightness of 2,300 nits, more than double the iPhone 13 Pro Max. HDR brightness hit a peak of 1,590 nits, according to DisplayMate, a 33% improvement over the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
The iPhone 14 Pro Max received the following awards for smartphone display performance:
- Highest Color Accuracy of White (0.2 JNCD for sRGB and 0.2 JNCD for DCI-P3) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
- Highest Absolute Color Accuracy (0.5 JNCD for sRGB and 0.5 JNCD for DCI-P3) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
- Smallest Shift in Color Accuracy with APL (0.3 JNCD for sRGB and 0.3 JNCD for DCI-P3) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
- Smallest Maximum Color Shift with APL (0.9 JNCD for sRGB and 0.8 JNCD for DCI-P3) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
- Highest Image Contrast Accuracy and Intensity Scale Accuracy (2.22 Gamma) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
- Smallest Shift in Image Contrast and Intensity Scale with APL (0.00 Gamma) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
- Smallest Change in Peak Luminance with APL (1 percent) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
- Highest Full-Screen Brightness for OLED Smartphones (1,026 nits at 100% APL).
- Highest Peak Display Brightness (2,307 nits for Low APL in High Ambient Light).
- Highest Contrast Ratio (Infinite).
- Lowest Screen Reflectance (4.5 percent).
- Highest Contrast Rating in Ambient Light (228 for 100% APL and 513 for Peak Brightness).
- Smallest Brightness Variation with Viewing Angle (25% at 30 degrees).
- Smallest Color Variation of White with Viewing Angle (1.5 JNCD at 30 degrees).
- Highest Visible Screen Resolution 2.8K (2796×1290) – 4K Does Not appear visually sharper on a Smartphone.
The iPhone 14 Pro Max won 15 awards in total, up from the 13 earned by the iPhone 13 Pro Max. DisplayMate says Apple’s flagship iPhone offers “uniformly consistent top tier display performance” across a suite of display tests, earning it very good to excellent ratings.
Based on our extensive Lab Tests and Measurements the iPhone 14 Pro Max has a Very Impressive Excellent Top Tier World Class Smartphone Display with close to Text Book Perfect Calibration Accuracy and Performance that is Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect. Based on our objective Lab Tests and Measurements the iPhone 14 Pro Max receives a DisplayMate Best Smartphone Display Award earning DisplayMate’s highest ever Display Performance Grade of A+ and setting or matching 15 Smartphone Display Performance Records including 7 that are Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect that are listed above.
For more details, the full Shoot-Out from DisplayMate goes into much more depth.
