• Popular PC/(SVGA) standard
• Each pixel can be one of 2^15 colors
• Can exhibit worse quantization effects than Indexed-color

Specialty Frame Buffers

• Non-RGB color models (YUV) or 4-2-2
• True color plus an Overlay
• Older 4-bit per pixel models [I,R,G,B]
• True-color with a lookup-per-color component