Color depth of Dell M4700?

Users of M4700, please let me know the color depth. I am expecting it to be 8-bit.

I am going for 15.6" FHD: Dell UltraSharp™, wide view, anti-glare, LED-backlit, Premium Panel

Thanks
Ramesh

 

It is the TN so 6-bit.

 

Pardon my ignorance but I'm wondering something: If all TN panels are limited to 6-bit, then how come some "wide gamut" ones like AUO V.4 are stated to be able to reproduce close to the whole RGB color space? I checked its datasheet and it is a regular 6-bit TN panel as well, so technically it can only reproduce 262K colors. What's the meaning of being a "wide gamut" panel but just 6-bit? A marketing gimmick?

 

Per what Wikipedia says .

 

*&^%$#@! Marketers.

 

Yes, 6-bit covers 262K colors. This would be somewhat obvious if manufacturers document color depth instead of using ambiguous phrases 'wide gamut'. I am finding it hard to get this information. DELL support could not give authoritative answer to color bit question. Sager support said their IPS panels are all 6-bit. I have Lenovo T530, it seems like TN 6-bit. I have HP 8570w(given by company) and it is a 6-bit panel. It seems there are many 6-bit panels. HP's Dream color is 10-bit.

6-bit color systems use to dithering to represent missing colors
LCD Color: 8-Bit vs. 6-Bit

 

The auo panels are indeed wide gamut.

And, I never read any of the oem advertised about wide gamut display (xps 15, lenovo w520, sager reller don't use that word on their Website)

 

Not at all a good thing. Seem as though manufactures are so distracted by pushing their higher pixel count they have totally forgotten about quality.

 

Thanks for the explaination. So inherently a wide gamut screen needs more than 6-bit because the range of colors to be represented exceeds that of non-wide gamut ones. To me being wide-gamut and 6-bit makes not much sense because there are so many colors that could physically be shown but can't be translated to 1's and 0's. Who cares if extreme points of the color space are even asigned a 6-bit code and thus the screen is labeled "wide-gamut". Number of colors that can be displayed is still 262K.