Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR 10-bit output

Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by Someone on Saturday January 30, 2021 @03:51AM (#25967446)

I don’t remember VGA doing millions of colors. I thought it did 256 colors, at best.

Wikipedia agrees with that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Graphics_Array), but adds “The 640×480 16-color and 320×200 256-color modes had fully redefinable palettes, with each entry selected from an 18-bit (262,144-color) gamut.”. That, I don’t remember knowing, even reading that.

So, a quarter of a million, but only 256 at a time. I think the Macintosh II, doing 256 colors out of 16.7 million, looked better, especially with a Trinitron display (https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/classic_monitors/specs/a...).

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by compsciphd on Saturday January 30, 2021 @04:08AM (#25967526)

a "vga" card with 8mb of ram was probably a svga card (24 * 640 * 480 is just under 8 mega). no real reason for it to need 8mb otherwise back then.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by Narishma on Saturday January 30, 2021 @08:45AM (#25969004)

That's less than 1 MB.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by compsciphd on Saturday January 30, 2021 @05:45PM (#25973788)

you're right, I multiplied it by 10 in my head. but even more so for OP. It wasn't a plain vga card.

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