diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst
index 7162e6ecf0..e03f783b90 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/options.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst
@@ -5005,9 +5005,12 @@ The following video options are currently all specific to ``--vo=gpu`` and
     Selects the internal format of textures used for FBOs. The format can
     influence performance and quality of the video output. ``fmt`` can be one
     of: rgb8, rgb10, rgb10_a2, rgb16, rgb16f, rgb32f, rgba12, rgba16, rgba16f,
-    rgba16hf, rgba32f. Default: ``auto``, which maps to rgba16 on desktop GL,
-    and rgba16f or rgb10_a2 on GLES (e.g. ANGLE), unless GL_EXT_texture_norm16
-    is available.
+    rgba16hf, rgba32f.
+
+    Default: ``auto``, which first attempts to utilize 16bit float
+    (rgba16f, rgba16hf), and falls back to rgba16 if those are not available.
+    Finally, attempts to utilize rgb10_a2 or rgba8 if all of the previous formats
+    are not available.
 
 ``--gamma-factor=<0.1..2.0>``
     Set an additional raw gamma factor (default: 1.0). If gamma is adjusted in
diff --git a/video/out/gpu/video.c b/video/out/gpu/video.c
index 3fb460469d..7594c2b04a 100644
--- a/video/out/gpu/video.c
+++ b/video/out/gpu/video.c
@@ -3519,7 +3519,7 @@ static void check_gl_features(struct gl_video *p)
     bool have_ssbo = ra->caps & RA_CAP_BUF_RW;
     bool have_fragcoord = ra->caps & RA_CAP_FRAGCOORD;
 
-    const char *auto_fbo_fmts[] = {"rgba16", "rgba16f", "rgba16hf",
+    const char *auto_fbo_fmts[] = {"rgba16f", "rgba16hf", "rgba16",
                                    "rgb10_a2", "rgba8", 0};
     const char *user_fbo_fmts[] = {p->opts.fbo_format, 0};
     const char **fbo_fmts = user_fbo_fmts[0] && strcmp(user_fbo_fmts[0], "auto")