OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.3, Eighth Edition

Appendix G. Floating-Point Formats for Textures, Framebuffers, and Renderbuffers

This appendix describes the floating-point formats used for pixel storage in framebuffers and renderbuffers, and texel storage in textures. It has the following major sections:

• “Reduced-Precision Floating-Point Values”

• “16-bit Floating-Point Values”

• “10- and 11-bit Unsigned Floating-Point Values”