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AMD freesync coming soon, no extra costs.... shocker
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freesync = you buy new monitor for regular price
Gsync = you buy new monitor for regular price + 250$ for gsync kit installed or alone
the free referes to the extra 250$ added to the regular price of the monitor, hope this answers your question
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Am more than Happy to wait, am on the fence and dont think it will improve over Vsync off. Screen tear dont bother me at all. not something I notice when playing.
Yes and No.
VESA ratified a 'Variable Refresh Rate' technology that exists in eDP for laptops and the like for power saving into the 1.2a standard that extends said technology to external DisplayPort monitors.
It's an optional part of the 1.2a spec which monitor makers can integrate into their monitors if they so choose.
It's yet to be seen whether this is POSSIBLE on existing monitors through a firmware update, future monitors using the 1.2a spec with the optional implementation or otherwise.
Demos have been shown using eDP, but eDP has no real considerations that a discrete gpu <> external monitor relationship might have as it's an embedded solution.
For example - G-SYNC necessitates that there are no other connection options other than DisplayPort on the monitor. Whether this Adaptive-Sync techn0logy differs in that respect is yet to be seen.
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Standard confirmed. Monitors meeting it by q1-2 2015.
Well that answers my question on whether I should wait or not.
Tell me, why do you think monitor manufacturers will:
1 - Fully explore the spec
2 - R&D it's implementation into their monitors
3 - Integrate it into production models
4 - Sell them with zero marketing, price premium or otherwise?
Adaptive-Sync on Desktop PCs with External Monitors have 1 target audience that gives a damn about it. Gamers. You ARE going to pay for it.
That's how I see it. Surely the DP 1.2 on GPUs will need to be 1.2a to work?
Yup. Nobody doubts it will work on discrete GPUs with external monitors, otherwise what was the point?
The real question is this:
Will work on current discrete GPUs with external monitors?
C'mon LtMatt, think man!
Also, that tweet has a VERY concerning wording. It almost appears that DP Adaptive-Sync was "required" to make FreeSync viable.....almost that VESA are implementing DP Adaptive-Sync and AMD will CONTINUE to market the technology as 'FreeSync' and use the solution as their own which requires the VESA 1.2a spec ratification to actually work.
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because as i said above this adds value to gaming monitors, because the community have shown real interest for the technology, everybody knows it, and manufacturer also know it, so if they have any vision they will add it, the timing of 4k monitors crossing with freesync is interesting, and can potentialy increase monitors sale for the next couple years, with quiet massive upgrade from players, the dots arn't hard to connect, if i was running asus or samsung i would include it.
beside AMD will probably work closely with some manufacturer like samsung, to promote their monitors and help them for the R&D to get it out quickly and bank on it while it still hot, which will be quickly followed by Nvidia picking asus or something to not be left behind, personaly i have no doubt, that this tech will take off very quickly, and i doubt R&D would cost a concerning amount of money, it's probably minimal, and the benefit stands to be way more lucrative.
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Correct on all the following points:
1 "Adds Value"
2 "the community have shown real interest for the technology"
3 "if i was running asus or samsung i would include it"
Here is the point you missed:
"if i was running asus or samsung i would include it", at additional cost to the end user because end user will pay because of points 1 and 2 above.
Monitor Manufacturers are NOT going to include an OPTIONAL VESA standard into a gaming monitor to support a highly anticipated feature with NO additional cost to end user. It's not going to happen. You are dreaming if you think this feature will make production without a price tag attached.
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That's nothing more than early adoption tax. Once it settles down and becomes more readily available the price will normalise.
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Thanks Thracks
So no need to Upgrade GPU for me. Just wait on the monitors now. 120hz or more @1440p and am sold.Thanks Thracks
Same for me.
Would be nice to know if older AMD Radeon gpu's such as the Tahiti 7970 or Cape Verde HD7770 will see support as well?
Assuming it's those ones because it requires something new which the older ones don't have.