Is 100w halogen brighter than LED? Yes and No.

According to an online community, an LED headlight bulb will never be able to match the performance of a properly upgraded halogen bulb. This video will test that theory to determine whether the greatest LED headlight bulbs can outperform a 100-watt halogen.

In general, you have a few options when it comes to replacing your headlight bulbs. In addition to projector retrofits, you can upgrade to a plug-and-play HID conversion kit, install LED headlight bulbs, or use a set of halogen bulbs that are more costly, brighter, and use more energy than your original halogen lights.

Some even replace the entire assembly. You have every possible option available to you. That being said, there are instances in which you may choose a less expensive plug-and-play light bulb.

Today, we will examine a few Philips off-the-shelf halogen items that are supposed to be more light than the standard bulb.

Thus, the test will go as follows.

We'll start with the original 60-watt (below) 9,005 halogen bulb that was installed in your car when it was new. It's nothing spectacular, and it was most likely utilized. You can anticipate this light from the moment you drive off the lot.

Next, we'll examine the HR2, also referred to as a 9012, which is the first essential halogen improvement. It is commonly believed that the HR2 halogen infrared light bulb will be brighter than a standard halogen.

Two aftermarket choices were then available to us. Our selection includes the 100-watt halogen Philips 9,005 HB2 Rally Vision bulb (pictured above) and the 65-watt halogen Philips 9005 Xtreme Vision bulb (pictured below). One of these options will outperform the stock. After that, we will contrast all of the halogens with a few LED alternatives.

We will first choose the GTR Lighting Ultra 2 (below), a popular choice that frequently has brightness levels comparable to those of a 55-watt HID.

After that, we'll discuss the Aurora Flexible Heatsink bulb, which is more like the general version of the industry standard bulb.

Thanks to this test, we should have a decent understanding of how well certain LED bulb types perform in comparison to their high-power halogen counterparts.

Our first test will be a Sylvania G 2312 60-watt, 9,005 halogen bulb in the headlight of this Dodge Durango projector. The maximum light level for this test is 550.

This outcome is typical for the brightness and beam pattern that you would anticipate with this configuration. We're measuring lux rather than lumens because we want to know the actual output in a specific scenario, not just a theoretical figure on the label.

Lux is the useable intensity that is visible to the naked eye and is measured at a specific location in space and distance.

This is the Philips HIR2 55-watt 9012 halogen headlight bulb, which is displayed below. This bulb's light output is noticeably lower than that of the standard 9,005 that we just examined, and it only has a maximum lux of 430.

This is the 65-watt Philips Xtreme Vision HB3, which has a maximum lux of 350. According to the package, this headlight bulb may increase brightness by up to 100%, but this is more of a color trick than anything else.

This halogen lightbulb is a huge dog. The Philips Rally Vision 100-watt HB3 9,005 bulb (below), component number 12359 RAC1, has a maximum lux of 690 and is not a DLT-approved headlight bulb.

At last, a halogen light bulb that outperforms the original.

This is the Aurora LED headlight bulb. I've tested it previously, so I wasn't expecting it to be particularly excellent. However, this is the point of contention when the men claim that LED lights are inferior to halogen because they most likely purchased something similar without conducting any study or testing.

Even after changing the bulb position to achieve the brightest beam pattern, this lamp still has a poor beam pattern and only has a maximum lux of 250.

We now have the GTR Lighting Ultra 2 LED headlight bulb, which has a maximum lux of 745. We're demonstrating that while some LED headlight bulbs perform worse than high-power halogen bulbs, some do.

Let's switch out the headlight housings to clarify this point further.

We'll be using a reflector-based Ford F-150 halogen lamp this time for the high beam.

Recall that this is the best choice from the last exam. Both the GTR Lighting Ultra 2 LED and the Philips Rally Vision 100-watt halogen bulb have maximum luminosities of 1,980 and 980, respectively.

Both low-beam and reflector high-beam LEDs can function in a projector, as this comparison demonstrates once more.

Would our 100-watt halogen headlight bulbs be more bright than LED ones? Getting the correct ones means that the answer is no. The results speak for themselves when tested in both low-beam and high-beam projectors.