Wednesday, September 24th 2014
NVIDIA Sacrifices VESA Adaptive Sync Tech to Rake in G-SYNC Royalties
NVIDIA's G-SYNC technology is rivaled by AMD's project Freesync, which is based on a technology standardized by the video electronics standards association (VESA), under Adaptive Sync. The technology lets GPUs and monitors keep display refresh rates in sync with GPU frame-rates, so the resulting output appears fluid. VESA's technology does not require special hardware inside standards-compliant monitors, and is royalty-free, unlike NVIDIA G-SYNC, which is based on specialized hardware, which display makers have to source from NVIDIA, which makes it a sort of a royalty.
When asked by Chinese publication Expreview on whether NVIDIA GPUs will support VESA adaptive-sync, the company mentioned that NVIDIA wants to focus on G-SYNC. A case in point is the display connector loadout of the recently launched GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970. According to specifications listed on NVIDIA's website, the two feature DisplayPort 1.2 connectors, and not DisplayPort 1.2a, a requirement of VESA's new technology. AMD's year-old Radeon R9 and R7 GPUs, on the other hand, support DisplayPort 1.2a, casting a suspicion on NVIDIA's choice of connectors. Interestingly, the GTX 980 and GTX 970 feature HDMI 2.0, so it's not like NVIDIA is slow at catching up with new standards. Did NVIDIA leave out DisplayPort 1.2a in a deliberate attempt to check Adaptive Sync?
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Expreview
When asked by Chinese publication Expreview on whether NVIDIA GPUs will support VESA adaptive-sync, the company mentioned that NVIDIA wants to focus on G-SYNC. A case in point is the display connector loadout of the recently launched GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970. According to specifications listed on NVIDIA's website, the two feature DisplayPort 1.2 connectors, and not DisplayPort 1.2a, a requirement of VESA's new technology. AMD's year-old Radeon R9 and R7 GPUs, on the other hand, support DisplayPort 1.2a, casting a suspicion on NVIDIA's choice of connectors. Interestingly, the GTX 980 and GTX 970 feature HDMI 2.0, so it's not like NVIDIA is slow at catching up with new standards. Did NVIDIA leave out DisplayPort 1.2a in a deliberate attempt to check Adaptive Sync?
114 Comments on NVIDIA Sacrifices VESA Adaptive Sync Tech to Rake in G-SYNC Royalties
:shadedshu: :rolleyes:
Gsync is awesome
Gsync is here now.
Nvidia pushing technology forward with their enginuity and innovations
AMD needs to start making some leaps and strides if they expect to survive.
I wish AMD was pushing technology more then there would be an actual competition between red/green thus pushing performance and technology at a faster rate instead the snail like speed of the past 6+ years.
Anyway, my point is that the title of the article is slightly misleading; it looks more like click bait from a tabloid than an article on a tech publication to be honest.
For now G-Sync is already a reality and is proven that works flawlessy.
"Today, AMD announced collaborations with scaler vendors MStar, Novatek and Realtek to build scaler units ready with DisplayPort™ Adaptive-Sync and AMD's Project FreeSync by year end."
ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1969277
That is off AMD's press rls, If they say end of year sounds like no monitor til near end of q1. As other said no reason to say support something isn't out when you have working product Now. Just to kill off your own sales when don't even know if adaptive sync will give any benefit to games or if that is limited to AMD proprietary code.I agree with that.They are 2 different ways, we know well g-sync works but have yet to see how AMD's works. I said this before I don't take AMD's claims at face value, just this "prove it works like you say" then I will give credit they are due.
It's no negative posting, or bashing, or conspiracy theories, and there is nothing strange here. It is business as usual for Nvidia.
If you want it, you buy Nvidia's product. If you don't want it, you buy AMD product. Nvidia have pushed a business model to increase profit, to please shareholders.
Nvidia is a business, not a charity, it has zero requirement to work along 'free' business models. It has arguably spent a lot on R&D and builds a very capable vanilla card.
If you do not like what they do, you have no need to buy their products. Buy AMD instead.
By all review accounts, on the whole, Gsync works like a dream, why as a private company would they support a free or cheaper version?
If people start seeing Nvidia and AMD as businesses and not charities, a lot of arguments and misplaced anger venting could be avoided.
Nvidia is forcing people to buy monitors with Gsync, if they released DP 1.2a then sales of GSync monitors would collapse when freesync would be available I'm not loyal or a fan boy. I was going to get 2x 780ti's but Mantle's 290x crossfire performance on BF4 won me over. The 780ti's would sit at 75% each wasting GPU performance. When DX12 comes out and they can run at 100% all the time and use max performance all the time I might switch over but then moves like this makes you think twice.
AMD has planned to make Mantle open so we will wait and see when it gets released at the end of this year if that happens.
Jesus, gamers these days think they deserve to get everything for free.
I too don't care about either product but if Freesync works as well as Mantle, Nvidia might adapt their business model to compete. It might just remain peripheral technology though, much like Mantle.
FTR one of my BF4 mates went mantle with a 290 and truly appreciated the smoothness, though he did come from a 2 GB gtx680. On my part, I only game on one 780ti but our perf.render display outputs were identical. But, I do use a decent CPU so mantle is limited in purpose for my GPU needs.
I agree with above "foreworders":Exactly people need a solution right here, right now. I am having a blast using it, it is incredible and fun! As a consumer I am not going to wait for "I don't know how long in a distant future" for something that hasn't been even implemented/tested yet.
I also read that it using 1.2a, all needs is software update so, we are talking simple soft solution to be able to use "freesync" on nvidia cards. Why all this doom and gloom and rant.Umm, yes they do if there are people willing to pay for it, duuuh???