The overall beam pattern is a diffuse flood. Each 5w may be a spot but all in all it's a big wide soft flood with no hot or cold spots. Amazing as an area light but not a long distance pencil beam. But that's okay because they throw so much light in the midground it doesn't matter.
First I had 2 lamps and now I have 6. These lamps get comments and questions and general curiosity, 6 gets you mute awe. A guy flagged me down in traffic and said my rig looks boss, BOSS!! Hard to beat that kind of attention.
They look sharp, perform amazing and for the price cannot be beat. You might do better spending a huge amount more but the gains are all on the far end of the envelope. Sure you might be able to see a reflector 2 miles out but I'd rather light up the next 1000' like the superbowl.