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0 pointsDylan168076y ago0 comments

> 10 bit color support in graphics cards only became available around 2015.

That's off by a decade.

> 256 color monitors

Is that a thing that exists?

> We've only switched to 10 bit because of HDR.

You can get clear banding on an 8 bit output, and 10 bit displays are used at the high end. 10-bit HDR isn't immune to banding, since most of the increased coding space goes into expanding the range. There's a good reason for 12 bit HDR to exist.

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gruez6y ago· 2 in thread

>That's off by a decade.

mainstream support, at least. 10 bit HDR support for AMD cards was introduced with Fiji (2015), and Nvidia was introduced with Maxwell (2014)

tomaskafka6y ago

2002. I remember this. Matrox was one of major GPU players at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox_Parhelia

gruez6y ago

So it looks like it supported 10 bit frame buffers, but not necessarily 10 bit output. A quick search suggests it only supported DVI, which didn't support 10 bit output. In the context of talking about monitors, this essentially means that 10 bit wasn't supported at the time. Otherwise you could claim you have 192 bit color by software rendering at 64 bits per color, but outputting at 8 bits.

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