Monday, January 7th 2019
NVIDIA G-SYNC now Supports FreeSync/VESA Adaptive-Sync Technology
NVIDIA finally got around to realizing that the number of monitors with VESA adaptive-sync overwhelmingly outnumber those supporting NVIDIA G-Sync, and is going ahead with adding support for adaptive-sync monitors. This however, comes with a big rider. NVIDIA is not immediately going to unlock adaptive-sync to all monitors, just the ones it has tested and found to work "perfectly" with their hardware. NVIDIA announced that it has found a handful of the 550+ monitor models in the market that support adaptive-sync, and has enabled support to them. Over time, as it tests more monitors, support for these monitors will be added through GeForce driver updates, as a "certified" monitor.
At their CES event, the company provided a list of monitors that they already tested and that fulfill all requirements. G-Sync support for these models from Acer, ASUS, AOC, Agon and BenQ will be automatically enabled with a driver update on January 15th.
Update: We received word from NVIDIA that you can manually enable G-SYNC on all Adaptive-Sync monitors, even non-certified ones: "For gamers who have monitors that we have not yet tested, or that have failed validation, we'll give you an option to manually enable VRR, too."
Update 2: NVIDIA released these new Adaptive-Sync capable drivers, we tested G-SYNC on a FreeSync monitor.
At their CES event, the company provided a list of monitors that they already tested and that fulfill all requirements. G-Sync support for these models from Acer, ASUS, AOC, Agon and BenQ will be automatically enabled with a driver update on January 15th.
Update: We received word from NVIDIA that you can manually enable G-SYNC on all Adaptive-Sync monitors, even non-certified ones: "For gamers who have monitors that we have not yet tested, or that have failed validation, we'll give you an option to manually enable VRR, too."
Update 2: NVIDIA released these new Adaptive-Sync capable drivers, we tested G-SYNC on a FreeSync monitor.
231 Comments on NVIDIA G-SYNC now Supports FreeSync/VESA Adaptive-Sync Technology
And if by all the time you mean a handful of games, then sure...
With the announcement of hmdi 2.1 on lg oled and this I'll be happy to upgrade my 2016 oled to this year's model and finally have the full complete 4k living room pc experience I've been trying to build for like 5 years.
The only advantage AMD had ..........aaaandd its ..........Gone!!!
I'm assuming there will be no love for older monitors?
I wish I was an optimist :laugh:
From www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/g-sync-ces-2019-announcements/
Makes me wonder how no one figured out how to force FreeSync support on Nvidia cards since it was just a software switch.
I'm not sure what to think about this.
So will any cards that support G-Sync work? What about 700-series cards?
That said, obviously good decision. Just 5 years too late.