AMD demonstrates Freesync, G-sync equivalent?
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WCC is doing a long articles with their own words ( like offtly ), who are not part of the original . Like your bolded part Homerdog... this is a statement added by WCC, not from the original article.
The translation is bad, it dont work well with swedish, and you can think they have invert Nvidia and AMD in some line, just due to that but anyway original article here:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sweclockers.com%2Fnyhet%2F19346-nvidia-utlovar-stod-for-g-sync-konkurrenten-adaptive-sync&edit-text=
The translation is bad, it dont work well with swedish, and you can think they have invert Nvidia and AMD in some line, just due to that but anyway original article here:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sweclockers.com%2Fnyhet%2F19346-nvidia-utlovar-stod-for-g-sync-konkurrenten-adaptive-sync&edit-text=
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Yes. That seems a completely normal move from Nvidia anyway.
( Well Freesync monitor will never exist. Freesync is the name for the feature in the AMD "driver / GPU". On monitor side, this is adaptive sync who permit the control of the "dynamic refresh rate" by the gpu )
Some questions still remain anyway. Will Nvidia just develop a driver / software who work like G-sync without the module ( so similar of freesync ), or will they keep both ?
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Sweclockers said:
My attempt:
"While enthusiasts wait to try out AMD Freesync, Nvidia is planning to steal the spotlight by doing the same and implement support for Displayport Adaptive-Sync, despite the technology basically competes with Nvidia's own G-Sync. This was revealed at a secret press conference in San Fransisco before the launch of the new Maxwell-based graphics cards Geforce GTX 980 and GTX 970.
No further details have been revealed so far. More information about Nvidia's alledged support of Active-Sync is probably released when the first displays find their way to market, which is expected early next year."
firstminion
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"Like we said: "we don't do work for others", but hey, thanks for making this into an industry standard!"
We will probably have to wait for the Freesync vs G-Sync reviews to come out and see if there is any difference.
Nvidia not going to support VESA Adaptive Sync
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-not-going-to-support-vesa-adaptive-sync.html
It's a shame, they'll either end up supporting it or Gysnc will be driven down in price to match it. It will become a major selling point for AMD GPU's otherwise.
My own thoughts are Nvidia should support both G-Sync and FreeSync. Let the reviews investigate which offers the best gaming/work experience, and then gamers/professionals will be in a better position to choose what is best for them, even if there may be a slight premium for G-Sync.
Im nearly sure they will support it, just they maybe dont want do it before monitors with adaptive sync are on the market ( a lot of monitors, not only 2-3 pieces ) and there partners like Asus, want it.
Seriously what can do Nvidia if Asus, Benq want to sold monitors with adaptive sync ? Pay them for use exclusively G-sync ? Is Asus will do a Rog Swift 2, and a Red swift with adaptive sync ? .
@Kaotik, its what i have understand first, but it seems that adaptive sync could be optional ( well thats what some peoples say, but i have not really check it ). And even if their connector is 1.2a and 1.3, they could just not support thoses features in driver.
They could just not support it in the driver.
Silent_Buddha
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LoL, cannibalize Nvidia technology? When the technology already existed for notebook computers? PR at its finest. Shame on you Nvidia.
Sure they probably rode the hype that G-sync generated, but they certainly didn't cannibalize the tech.
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SB
If it turns out that Freesync is just as good as gsync, that would almost certainly be the case. I don't think NVIDIA would go making custom scaler hardware if they knew it was totally unnecessary.
So if freesync ends up as good as gsync, it will be a massive embarrassment for NVIDIA.
Silent_Buddha
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I'd imagine it was more a case that Nvidia saw an opportunity here when monitor vendors, the companies that produce the scalers that are used in displays, and standards bodies weren't moving to adopt the notebook standards to desktop displays.
As such Nvidia figured they had a window of opportunity to bring something similar to the desktop that would have a tangible benefit to gaming.
What they probably didn't count on was another party moving fast to get the standards body to adopt this into a standard for stand alone displays so quickly. This shortened their window for being able to greatly profit off a proprietary standard and potentially lock out future standards. Or force future standards to adopt their proprietary system and thus reap licensing fees.
Nvidia "could" have gone with the upcoming standard if they had wanted to instead of using Gsync. One of their architechs even mentioned they knew about the notebook solution (how couldn't they?). However, that would offer little to no monetary benefit over selling proprietary Gsync modules to monitor manufacturers. As well as no method of locking out their competitor. Heck they could have pioneered adaptive sync for the desktop had they wanted to. But again, no profit from selling a proprietary module and no way to lock out competitors if they did that.
Unless, Gsync somehow proves to be so incredibly better than adaptive sync, Nvidia will have to support it eventually. But they will resist as long as they can to get as much money as they can from selling Gsync modules to monitor manufacturer's as they can.
In other words, they cannot say they will support adaptive sync. Because if they do, then no monitor manufacturer in their right mind would buy the Gsync modules in order to sell a more expensive monitor that only a portion of the market could use.
Regards,
SB
Correct. But I believe the main driving force for Nvidia to stick with G-sync isn't because they make money from the modules. With proprietary G-sync they lock in users to their brand. Gamers change graphics cards a lot more often than they change monitors and therefore have to stick with Nvidia for a couple of generations... Smart and sneaky.
Effectively, but if you finally can get your hand on one, i hope for you it will work... Forums are full of peoples who have need return their monitor ( dead pixels, monitor die after 3 days, strange white line in the middle of the screen, i pass all the bad calibration of colors and other thing ).
Things are not so bad, some have got a good one the first attempt.
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