Depth Buffer precision

OpenGL OpenGL: Basic Coding
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Dear All,

My Depth Buffer precision is only 16 bits. How performance of my applications going effect.

Rajesh.R
IRIS,CAIR
Bangalore

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Performance may be better with 16bit, but results will be less precise.

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It will also depend on your colour precision. For some video cards have 32-bit colour and 16-bit depth (or possibly the other way round; I don’t remember the details) is slower than 32/32.