color depth over pixel format

[AsRock]

What do you think be better ?,

Using 12bpc + 4:2:2 or 8bpc + 4:4:4

 

[thewan]

If you are talking about displays, there are no mainstream 12bit displays, maybe higher end professional screens for studio recording have them. so there is no point talking about something that current hardware cannot visually produce for you to use anyway.

 

[AsRock]

And yet it's what options i have available.

 

[R-T-B]

A lot of displays can do true 10bit at least, and OLED can even do it well.

That being said I would never call downsampling the chroma acceptable.

 

[remekra]

If you are talking about displays, there are no mainstream 12bit displays, maybe higher end professional screens for studio recording have them. so there is no point talking about something that current hardware cannot visually produce for you to use anyway.

I wouldn't call LG 42C2 professional screen yet it has 12bit 4:4:4

And yet it's what options i have available.

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You don't have 10bpc 4:4:4 option? What is the screen model, cable and GPU?

 

[AusWolf]

I'd rather choose 12-bit colour, as I can't see much difference even between 4:4:4 and 4:2:0 chroma subsampling.

It's really up to you, though. Test both, and see which one works better for you.

 

[ir_cow]

4:4:4 all the way if you want color accuracy. 12-bit adds more colors (1 billion), but if they are -5 Delta off, what's the point? I don't think 12/14 bit is real thing in monitors. 10-bit is the standard. Past that, it may "pass" the color bit information along the datastream, but the pixels aren't going to display that.

 

[R-T-B]

I wouldn't call LG 42C2 professional screen yet it has 12bit 4:4:4

LG panels are 10bit though. They claim to accept more sure, but it's just FRC trickery at best.

I'd rather choose 12-bit colour, as I can't see much difference even between 4:4:4 and 4:2:0 chroma subsampling.

Most don't until the colored text comes out, then it's obvious.

 

[AsRock]

A lot of displays can do true 10bit at least, and OLED can even do it well.

That being said I would never call downsampling the chroma acceptable.

Well got my replacement card today, overclocks a little, how ever now it can do 8\10 and 12bpc 4:4:4 as before it was limited too 4:2:2. So some thing was going on with the other card.

 

[Vya Domus]

Most panels are 8bit, color bit depth really doesn't matter. 4:2:2 however means half the horizontal resolution which is objectively worse though still likely not noticeable.

 

[ir_cow]

Looks like more marketing mayhem. 8+2 is for color. The extra 2 for 12 is for HDR nits. Kinda seems like a stretch to say a monitor is 12 bit. I mean I guess it is because the data is sent as 12 bits...

 

[AusWolf]

Looks like more marketing mayhem. 8+2 is for color. The extra 2 for 12 is for HDR nits. Kinda seems like a stretch to say a monitor is 12 bit. I mean I guess it is because the data is sent as 12 bits...

That's the beauty of marketing. You're only saying "12 bits". You don't have to specify 12 bits what.