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
The driver is releasing on the 15th.
I still think NVDA stock tumbling had something to do with it too. It's not clear that NVIDIA is even making money on G-Sync modules because of their low volumes. It may make financial sense to discontinue production.
Put the two together, along with CES as the perfect launch venue, and you get this announcement.
So there we have it, it may not work at all.
That reason is why NVIDIA gave that caveat: some monitors need extra TLC to work with VESA adaptive sync and if they don't have that TLC, your mileage may vary. They aren't going to make a blanket statement that it works because they can't guarantee it will unless the monitor was certified by NVIDIA to work (same as AMD).
You'd think it would be a one-size-fits-all thing but it isn't.
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Basically of the gamers and tech heads I know and talk to, about 1 in 10 or so is one of these 'ngreedia' bandwagoners, the rest happily use either their products or AMD's without being so tilted about it.
o_O
This is good news for everyone. I currently have a 1080 Ti and the original ROG swift at 2560x1440 144hz gsync. It has served me well and has been easily the best monitor I have ever owned.
The main reason for going with gsync is that they ALL have support for 1-max refresh rate support for VRR. This is why most freesync monitors won't be gsync compatible as most were shitty monitors that have a small VRR range. So if your frames dropped it turned off VRR.
No matter what if you are playing on most of the latest games you will have frame dips and this is why I loved gsync as it didn't matter gsync was always turned on and I could tell.
Though I was thinking about switching to AMD in the future if they ever compete in the high end again as the amount of freesync monitors and being cheaper was appealing to me. I also don't like being locked in with only one company. This is great news for Nvidia users and probably hurt AMD if Nvidia ever come back to reality with their prices on GPUs.
That said, to buy a G-Sync monitor, you're still going to have to pay the premium for the proprietary hardware and technology. It'll be just a little more attractive now.
This is great.
It's "so, FreeSync monitor can be used with AMD, nVidai and later Intel, while GSync are overpriced and only work with nGreedia?"BS.
GSync not only "was not free to use" unlike FreeSync based standard, it was also "not for anyone to license" because, you know, "investments" of nVidia.
As VRR-ish tech was right there in notebooks for years already and as Vesa standard, no less, the main point of the mentioned "investment" was to grab market using proprietary tech AND have hefty premium for Huang branded chips.
AMD's version, on the other hand, was so cool, most upscaler chips on the market included it out of the box.
And even today, with greedia's dominance in GPU market they have failed so miserably.
Two standards talk would apply if GSync was available for others to use.
once again if you wanna blame somebody for state of the GPU market blame AMD
its there fault for once again not being competitive
nvidia gets free rein because they have no competition you want that to change bitch at amd
It´s pretty sad really, seems no one cares about games, hardware and tech anymore, the only important thing is bashing Nvidia in every topic.
It feels that some people need to bash Nvidia everyday, to feel some kind of joy in their lives.