Monitor Scaler Color Depth Bandwidth: 8-Bit vs 10-Bit RGB Full at High Refresh Rates: Competitive Benchmark Analysis and Hardware Interactions

[David Wilson]

Anyone here measured a real-world latency or frametime delta between an 8-bit panel driven FRC-dithered up to 10-bit versus a true native 10-bit scaler path at 240Hz and higher? I’ve been chasing ghosting and banding in the dark corners of competitive maps, but what’s actually eating my budget is the bandwidth math. When the GPU pushes 10-bit RGB full range, does the display scaler sit right on the DP 2.1 or HDMI 2.1 ceiling, and does over-committing force the panel into a lower refresh rate or bake in encoder overhead I

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