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Pemalite on 08 January 2017
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Conina said:
Pemalite said:

I was amazed years ago when I upgraded from a crappy 6-bit Twisted-Nematic Panel to an 8-bit In-Pane-Switching panel. And now we are heading towards 12-bit panels.

12-bit per color (R, G, B), so 36-bit color depth in total... baby steps.

John Carmack wanted 64-bit color depth 17 years ago: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/carmack-looks-to-64-bit-future/1100-2565599/

I'm aware of the differences. ;)

I remember that statement Carmack made years ago, I was a PC gamer back then.

8-bit panels only display 16.7 million colours, 10-bit panels, 1.07 billion... There are of course "tricks" that monitors employ to artificially boost that as well, such as Look-Up Tables, still not as good as the real things though.

12-bit is a whopping 68.71 Billion colours. I can't wait.



--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--