Let us know how the forstner bit does. I would suspect that between the brad point and small forstner the results will be similar.
The outside cutters on brad points produces a chip rather than curls from twist drills. Depends on the wood, fiber density combined with feed rate and rpm speed. The pen turners and luthiers use long brad points.
For my wood projects I mainly use brad points. I've used big diameter forstner bits when making the inset for quartz clock mechanisms.
I found this site that sells some long USA made brad point drill bits:
https://toolsforworkingwood.com/store/item/MS-BPL.XX