Spend over £1,000 on a monitor and it will almost certainly include a 10-bit panel. That means it can show 1.07 billion hues. If you’re wondering how that number is reached, it’s because each pixel can show 1,024 tones of RGB colour, and 1,024 cubed is 1,073,741,824.
An 8-bit panel is far more typical, but it’s limited to 16.77 million colours from 256 RGB tones (2563 is 16,777,216). How, then, can more affordable 8-bit panels produce 1.07 billion hues to match their 10-bit counterparts?
The answer is frame rate control, or FRC. To quote BenQ: “[FRC] manipulates pixels so they flash two alternating colours so quickly that you perceive any of the shades in a billion colour experience. Does the monitor display those billion+ colours? No. Will you be able…