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
....or are you using that word in a discriminatory and derogatory manner?
How is this ok TPU? :(
I want to watch green brains bending backwards further and further.
I want to see them pay $250+ for gsync label and wonder WTF later, more of that please.
We already got to perf/$ not going up with next gens (thank you, Huang), but want to see perf/$ drop as we "progress".
Heck, between AMD trouncing market in Q3 with cheap 7nm cards and Huang pwning greenboi more, while I'd choose the former, the latter is not far behind.
I would welcome some more money on driver development (not on gaming functions or GUI, on proper driver development). AMD has the worst OpenGL driver, even Intel stomps them there.
To know who i am referring to just look at who has been downvoting all the pro-consumer comments. It is these guys don’t wanna see progression even for the benefit of average consumers. Truly pathetic and disgusting.
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/nvidia-g-sync-now-supports-freesync-vesa-adaptive-sync-technology.251237/page-2#post-3971286
tl;dr - out of 568 monitors that are on AMD's Freesync monitors list today this will leave 201 as potential candidates.
I honestly feel this type of testing and validation is something AMD should have done a year or two ago. Freesync 2 announcement was a good opportunity for this but they just didn't :(
Both AMD and Nvidia ran with their own implementation of variable refresh... its really that simple. The only thing missing is AMD support for Gsync monitors ;) This is a pretty smart move on Nvidia's part, and for consumers it is only win-win: AMD users are likely to get access to more, higher quality (broader refresh ranges) variable refresh monitors, and Nvidia users can access the technology for free like everyone else.Less money moproblems? :D
I'm sure there will just be a list somewhere which shouldn't hurt too many feelings.
1) Huang was milking GTX users for years with all this proprietary gsync scam => Profit.
2) Huang announces that now Pascal and turing can work with freesync => more gamers who don't' want to deal with gsync will buy Nvidia GPUs instead of getting AMD's gpus.
It's a preventive strike against whatever AMD is about to announce at CES 2019 (new GPUs or whatever)
Does it make Nvidia look kinda bad? Yeah, it does. However, the long-term financial benefits of this announcement outweigh all this.
PS Fanatics will just keep blindly praising their god-father figure, of course;) ignoring the fact that Huang was screwing them over all these years just to milk more money from them heh
Oh well, monitor still works correct? And she works well. So pretty...lol in what universe does this look bad?
Google returns 1,450,000 results for G-Sync so you can enlighten yourself about that particular topic. Here's the Wikipedia entry:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_G-Sync