The performance of TDA for the investigated RSH functionals is overall comparable to that of global hybrids, as visible in Table , 4 and Figure . Additionally, TDA tends stronger to over-estimate the absorption energies. The RPA approach for CAM-B3LYP results in overestimated absorption energies, while other LC-RSH functionals tend to underestimate these energies. Overall, RPA has a strong dependency on the type of functional and produce lower absorption energies than TDA (see Table and Figure ). On the other hand, as can be seen in Table , Figure and 3b, the performance of sTDA and sTD-DFT is improved over global hybrids only for CAM-B3LYP which amounts up to 46% HF-exchange. In contrast to CAM-B3LYP, LC-RSH functionals incorporating up to 85-100% HF-exchange result in remarkably large errors. This is in agreement with the original work where sTDA was developed for long-range corrected hybrids where best results of excitation energies were obtained with CAM-B3LYP for charge transfer free systems. Employing large basis sets does not improve the results based on simplified approaches. (see Figure for e.g. CAM-B3LYP case and Figure for all the tested functionals). Thus, results obtained with the def2-SVP in combination with simplified approaches are most reliable and reasonable. To sum up and as shown in Figure , GGA functionals produce large errors in the form of outliers e.g., BLYP in combination with def2-SVP basis set. Global hybrid functionals, e.g. B3LYP, produces MAE of 0.06 eV in combination with sTDA and the def2-SVP basis set and appears to produce overall reliable results. However, best results, and indeed excellent ones, are obtained with the RSH, CAM-B3LYP in combination with sTDA and an overall small def2-SVP basis set which yields a MAE of about 0.05 eV. This can be barely improved by energy scaling (see Figure and scaled error values are listed in Table ).