As shown in Table and, similar trends are observed for global hybrids as for pure DFT functionals, e.g. RPA tends to lower absorption energies than TDA. In contrast, the large error which stem from the outliers are significantly reduced for the global hybrids with respect to GGAs (see Table and Figure ). TDA in combination with global hybrids tends strongly to over-estimate absorption energies of Q-bands which can be reduced by employing the RPA approach, especially in combination with the BHLYP and M06-2X functional. Nonetheless, MAE is still above 0.10 eV and thus, this approach cannot be recommended. The approximate sTDA and sTD-DFT approaches fail significantly for the global hybrids with large amount of HF exchange like BHLYP and M06-2X. However, global hybrids with HFexchange contributions in the range of 20-25% show significant improvement compared to the pure DFT functionals (see Table and Figure , 3b). For example, sTDA in combination with the B3LYP functional and def2-SVP basis set possesses a MAE of 0.06 eV while the MAXE is 0.18 eV. Increasing the basis set increases the deviation, similarly as for the GGA functionals (see Figure for e.g. B3LYP and Figure for all the tested functionals).