For price and heat, lower values are better. Throwiness depends on personal needs and taste. For everything else, higher values are better.All of the emitter types are good, but here is the worst part about each:
Throwiness is a rough measure of candelas per lumen. It's the overall beam shape. Even the throwiest option is not a thrower, because compact triples are floody by nature. At a guess, the range here is about 2 to 4 cd/lm, and common reflector-based EDC-style lights are usually about 5 to 10.
Beam is the overall beam quality, like smoothness and color consistency.
More peppers makes thermal management harder, reduces the sustainable brightness after step-down, and increases risk of damaging the emitters on turbo.
Price | Lumens | Throwiness | CRI | Beam | Heat | |
Cree XP-L HI | $36 | 3300? | ***** | 70+ | **** | ![]() |
Cree XP-G3 | $30 | 3000? | ** | 70+ | ** | ![]() |
Cree XP-G2 | $30 | 2200? | *** | 70+ | *** | ![]() |
Nichia 219c | $30 | 2600? | ** | 90+ | **** | ![]() |
Samsung LH351D | $30 | 3000? | * | 90+ | **** | ![]() |
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