AMD lists Radeon GPUs that support FreeSync

Ryu5uzaku

2014-09-04 11:15

Goodie. Now bring on freesync display! and of course for every display type not only crappy TN that are aimed at only some weird gamers. Cause we do know there are better displays then TN out there for everyone!

#4905842

TheDeeGee

2014-09-04 12:19

Hopefully manufacturers won't be douchebags and make the feature exclusive to gaming grade monitors like they did with Gsync.

Well, i think this will be the case since the Monitor still needs specific hardware to process VBLANK. It's not just DisplayPort 1.2a and it can use FreeSync/Adaptive Sync.

#4905860

mitzi76

2014-09-04 12:48

Interesting story this unfolding... Question is will it be any good...? Tbh am still on the fence re all this. I.e will freesync or gysnc be that much of a game changer.. Pay extra when arguably you can have as much fun on a screen without..perhaps am being a bit of a party pooper. p.s yeah I know Hilbert and members here like it..but it's not gonna give u a lack of sleep 🙂

#4905875

Denial

2014-09-04 13:17

Interesting story this unfolding... Question is will it be any good...? Tbh am still on the fence re all this. I.e will freesync or gysnc be that much of a game changer.. Pay extra when arguably you can have as much fun on a screen without..perhaps am being a bit of a party pooper. p.s yeah I know Hilbert and members here like it..but it's not gonna give u a lack of sleep 🙂

Having a Swift, G-Sync is definitely a game changer. Like I went into it expecting nothing but definitely was impressed after. it literally makes 40fps games feel like 100+fps games. I'm sure Freesync will be no different. And they already said that Freesync monitors will be $80-100 cheaper then G-Sync ones, which means they are charging a premium for the feature as the G-Sync module itself is $300. Doesn't surprise me though, monitors have been at a race to the bottom for a long time now. If the OEM's can value-add features for cheap they are going to do it.

#4905888

mitzi76

2014-09-04 13:49

Having a Swift, G-Sync is definitely a game changer. Like I went into it expecting nothing but definitely was impressed after. it literally makes 40fps games feel like 100+fps games. I'm sure Freesync will be no different. And they already said that Freesync monitors will be $80-100 cheaper then G-Sync ones, which means they are charging a premium for the feature as the G-Sync module itself is $300. Doesn't surprise me though, monitors have been at a race to the bottom for a long time now. If the OEM's can value-add features for cheap they are going to do it.

Good to know. I'll re-evaluate when more ips+Gsync+freesync are out.. early days yet but pretty exciting stuff.

#4905893

TheDeeGee

2014-09-04 13:53

Interesting story this unfolding... Question is will it be any good...? Tbh am still on the fence re all this. I.e will freesync or gysnc be that much of a game changer.. Pay extra when arguably you can have as much fun on a screen without..perhaps am being a bit of a party pooper. p.s yeah I know Hilbert and members here like it..but it's not gonna give u a lack of sleep 🙂

FreeSync/Adaptive wont cost you anything extra, unlike G-Sync which needs a 150 Dollar Module. FreeSync/Adaptive Sync can be implented in ANY monitor as it's a DisplayPort 1.2a standard. It only needs a small hardware addition for it to work, which is a Scalar Chip that supports VBLANK.

#4905896

mitzi76

2014-09-04 13:59

FreeSync/Adaptive wont cost you anything extra, unlike G-Sync which needs a 150 Dollar Module. FreeSync/Adaptive Sync can be implented in ANY monitor as it's a DisplayPort 1.2a standard. It only needs a small hardware addition for it to work, which is a Scalar Chip that supports VBLANK.

hence the name freesync :stewpid: (i should have realised this) but didnt realise any monitor... problem is I dont see myself going amd anytime soon...but seems like a good ploy by amd..

#4905900

TheDeeGee

2014-09-04 14:07

hence the name freesync :stewpid: (i should have realised this) but didnt realise any monitor... problem is I dont see myself going amd anytime soon...but seems like a good ploy by amd..

Well FreeSync is AMD, Adaptive Sync is DisplayPort. Basicly NVIDIA can do the same as FreeSync, since Adaptive Sync is a DisplayPort standard that's open to everyone.

#4905909

Denial

2014-09-04 14:18

FreeSync/Adaptive wont cost you anything extra, unlike G-Sync which needs a 150 Dollar Module. FreeSync/Adaptive Sync can be implented in ANY monitor as it's a DisplayPort 1.2a standard. It only needs a small hardware addition for it to work, which is a Scalar Chip that supports VBLANK.

Uh the G-Sync module is $300, OEM's probably get it closer to $200. AMD claims that Freesync monitors will be $80-100 cheaper. So yeah it definitely costs an extra $100 and OEM's plan on selling it as an premium feature. And your second paragraph makes it sound like I can just buy a scalar chip and put in my current monitors and make them adaptive sync compliant which is definitely not the case. The SCALAR chip is model specific. Further no one has played with a Freesync monitor yet. No one knows what the impact on latency is or if it will have unforeseen problems like G-Sync has with polling and such. Until it comes out it's hard to just claim "Freesync is better". Hopefully Nvidia will support both.

#4905910

mitzi76

2014-09-04 14:20

Well FreeSync is AMD, Adaptive Sync is DisplayPort. Basicly NVIDIA can do the same as FreeSync, since Adaptive Sync is a DisplayPort standard that's open to everyone.

Which then raises the interesting question of if it performs as well as gsync and is free nvidia are in a spot of bother...

#4906113

orky87

2014-09-04 18:59

"All AMD Radeon graphics cards in the AMD Radeon HD 7000, HD 8000, R7 or R9 Series will support Project FreeSync for video playback and power-saving purposes" Errm... why mention this line at all? Gives a foul impression to those who lack the technical understanding and instead may lead to believe that those GPUs are supported since they have been mentioned in the context of FreeSync... No one cares about "video playback and power-saving purposes"! People want free G-Sync

#4906134

bemaniac

2014-09-04 19:29

is there a gsync module for my samsung uhd28590 4k screen?

#4906220

-Tj-

2014-09-04 21:04

FreeSync/Adaptive wont cost you anything extra, unlike G-Sync which needs a 150 Dollar Module. FreeSync/Adaptive Sync can be implented in ANY monitor as it's a DisplayPort 1.2a standard. It only needs a small hardware addition for it to work, which is a Scalar Chip that supports VBLANK.

Nvidia has vblank enabled by default @ openGL for a long time - twinview era, now Nview.

Vblank syncing The __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK (boolean) environment variable can be used to control whether swaps are synchronized to a display device's vertical refresh. Setting __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 allows glXSwapBuffers to swap without waiting for vblank. Setting __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1 forces glXSwapBuffers to synchronize with the vertical blanking period. This is the default behavior.

http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/325.15/README/openglenvvariables.html Although now I see AMD is using the same tricks as nivida, AMD only after you enable it in driver cpl.

#4906438

KissSh0t

2014-09-05 05:36

@Hilbert AMD created an information page explaining that only ertain graphics cards will support FreeSync. ertain > certain