Nvidia not going to support VESA Adaptive Sync
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southamptonfc
The big question is if either provides a superior gaming experience as Nvidia imply Gsync does.
If there is no effective difference between the 2 solutions, one day gsync will die. It might take a long time but I don't think even Nvidia can steamroller VESA in the long run.
I just saw that ATI part of VESA but Nvidia are not.
fantaskarsef
As the Emperor has forseen it.
kakarot
Why support something that doesn't make you extra $$? Typical
bigfutus
Money must flow!
kosh_neranek
You can't blame Nvidia for this. Simple business. We would have all done it being in their position. And those who think they wouldn't simply don't understand how money is made. They will eventually support it. But they need their money back for all the research they paid for.
shymi
If nVidia starts supporting FreeSync, they might as well shoot GSync themselves.
orky87
Doesn't make sense. Why limit your feature list? Open up and be more versatile it's to nV's advantage and another reason for the fanboys to brag about. This excuse does no favours for them they are simply showing their greed and ignorance.
Edit: Investors and already made contracts are probably what's in the way. In the end they will support this standard.
Fox2232
Thing is DP 1.2a had it as optional.
1.3 has it as optional, maybe because nV said: "no way in hell we gonna support this".
And since it is optional not all display manufacturers will implement it, who will suffer? Us, customers.
At least AMD is going out to display board manufacturers and pushing it. In the end that is what matters, we'll have those screens, and there will not be extra premium since more manufacturers will make them.
But as far as adaptive-sync becoming mandatory part of standard, since bandwidth in DP1.3 is quite high, it will not happen for screens in next 2 years. And not for screens under 1440p since they will not need such bandwidth unless you go for 240Hz+.
VultureX
Well ****!
I might as well buy a super expensive Swift right now and be done with it. I'm tired of waiting for a good deal. I want my variable refresh rate now!!!!
icedman
Goodbye Nvidia and hello AMD all this propietary crap from Nvidia is getting real annoying AMD actually seems like they care even if it was Nvidia that pushed them to.
TheDeeGee
Fact is G-Sync is here today.
Where is Free Sync?
eclap
That doesn't matter. It'll come. Nvidia will never support it, it makes no sense.
TheDeeGee
They should make a different approach, and have some sort of adapter between the Monitor and Videocard.
But i'm not sure if that's possible.
Snorgrind
are there any compare tests or its still too soon for them?
anub1s18
yea AMD is kinda misleading on the freesync front imo.
the full support from the 7000 series up till R7/R9 only covers video playback and powersaving.
the ONLY amd cards that support freesync as an equal to gsync are the GCN cards (R9 295X2, 290X, R9 290, R9 285, R7 260X and R7 260)
the rest doesn't support gaming freesync.
where g-sync actually supports the GTX 6xx 7xx 8xx and 9xx cards.
strange that they'd make it a standard when there's only 6 model's of gfx card currently on the planet that support it but i guess it's free.
southamptonfc
I'm sure that if you look into the details of how both technologies work, you could more or less say exactly what the differences would be between them.
As for a real-world test, I'm not sure there are any stand-alone displays that support ASync yet. I guess to have a truly fair test, you would need a display that supports both GSync and ASync. I wonder if that will ever happen?
sykozis
AMD has more than just graphics cards that are compatible...
FerCam™
If it wasn't for the greed we could be 100yr more advanced.
mR Yellow
It's not strange. It simply means that AMD have been working on something similar to Gsync in their new architecture but Nvidia just forced their hand.
fantaskarsef
Just as I see it, Gsync will never be supported by AMD, and FreeSync will never be supported by Nvidia. Actually, both systems put the customer in the same situation: You have to match your monitor with your gpu.
