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ASUS To Have Exclusive Rights Over G-Sync

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I am not that surprised to read this, as Asus was the main player at the conference.

Nvidia’s G-SYNC is rumored to be exclusive to ASUS until late 2014. G-Sync is both a software and a hardware solution that will solve screen tearing and stuttering. A daughter hardware board is placed into a G-Sync enabled monitor which will do something very interesting. It is now reported that ASUS signed an exclusive deal with Nvidia. Something I would not be happy about.

Swedish website sweclockers claims that the first wave G-Sync will be introduced in monitors with a 120 to 144 Hz refresh rate. The first screen was already announced by ASUS, which is the VG248QE with a price tag of roughly €300 / $412 / £257, price that reportedly will go higher.

This means that other manufacturers will have to wait until the third or fourth quarter of 2013 before they can integrate it into their monitors. In the end if this information is right it will be a bad deal for the consumers as exclusivity drives prices upwards, which is exactly something you do not want to happen with new technology.

If all this is true, then the decision made could impact and even deny other manufacturers like BenQ, Philips and Viewsonic the ability to provide a variety of products, leading to slow adoption rate and sale decrease.
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So could be a year away for other manufacturers :( Oh well, Asus makes some good screens and I still have 3 of them :D
 
Don't worry people it will all be fine, I mean Intel gave a 1 year exclusive deal to Apple on Thunderbolt and it's not like that killed/buried it... Oh.
 
This rumour has been floating about for a while now, and is still just that, a rumour... it seems odd that nvidia would make a big show of having 4 manufacturers on board if theyve already signed a 1 year exclusive with one of them, i find it far more likely that asus were involved in the prototype/first model and so have a natural headstart on releasing first product, if having been involved in the development it is still going to take them until q1 14 to have proper product out, it is hardly surprising that it will take other manufacturers until q2 or more

the other thing to consider.is that what weve seen so.far is an FPGA version, so it could be that other manufacturers are waiting on the cheaper ASIC version

my next monitor was already going to be the asus 39 inch VA 4k anyway, so im not really fussed
 
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Don't worry people it will all be fine, I mean Intel gave a 1 year exclusive deal to Apple on Thunderbolt and it's not like that killed/buried it... Oh.
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If it is a game maker like the reviewers (Linus/Ryan) were making it out to be, I can see this doing well but it is one of those I would like to see before I buy.
 
Fine by me, I think I'd be hard pushed to move to anything else then another asus monitor :)

Asus with nvidia likely did all the ground work and tech development which is why they'll have timed exclusivity, with tech being licensed to others after it expires.
 
No different to Nvidia 3d vision which killed 3d vision adoption rates. Nvidia creates something anyone can do, makes it only work through their drivers and forces people to pay them to licence is, same way they would force people to pay them for sli support way back when they made mobo's.

They have no hold on 3d technology, they were simply able to control when their own cards ran 3d, and in doing so could charge stupid companies like Asus to be able to stick the name 3d vision on their monitors and thus have "support". The support that was nothing, but a name on a box. Same way Nvidia drivers refused to let SLI work on certain motherboards if said motherboard maker refused to pay Nvidia fee's for each mobo sold that particular model would no longer run SLI... unless you hacked the drivers.

nvidia has a history of doing this and I find it constantly funny that Nvidia users seem not to care.

You pay £100 for the 3d vision glasses, but you also pay £10 more for the screen just so Nvidia can extort more money from people despite there being no physical or sensible reason for a screen without the extra fee to not work.

It's no different to Nvidia selling you a gtx780 for £400, then charging you £15 to "enable" 3d, and £15 more to "enable" g-sync, and £15 more to "enable" whatever they next lock their own users out from unless they pay.

Make no mistake, screen controllers change from panel to panel anyway, there is precisely nothing complex about changing screen refresh timing at all, graphics card/software side, you're literally just running the card as you would without v-sync.

Any screen can do this for effectively no cost with minor changes to controllers which happen constantly anyway. Every new screen would be able to run this, only those refusing to pay Nvidia to not lock the option out of their drivers will be allowed to put the word g-sync on their monitors.


read up on low persistence, something Nvidia didn't come up with, is FAR more useful for gaming and improves all gaming ALL the time in ALL situations. G-sync will improve only certain situations in certain scenarios and can't work with low persistence.

g-sync, sometimes improving stuff if you're running with low performance, low persistence, finally removing 90% of screen/motion blur caused by LCD tech that we've put up with since CRT died.......... Why is Nvidia pushing g-sync hard and barely mentioned low persistence..... that's right, they had nothing to do with low persistence, can't patent anything to do with it, can't license it and can't change anyone(always at the expense of only their own users) for it. Thus g-sync becomes the new thing they push rather than the free and much better low persistence..... which they can't make any profit off.

They had people at their own conference talk up g-sync, Nvidia didn't mention low persistence, yet when interviewed afterwards Carmack was raving about low persistence, not g-sync.
 
Think i'll jump on the new Eizo, 120hz, PVA with stobe lighting will do me until something interesting gets released with g-sync.
 
It's a real shame it's ended up like this. Asus effectively have carte blanche to add whatever premium they like without fearing any competition.
 
Nvidia’s G-SYNC is rumored to be exclusive to ASUS until late 2014. G-Sync is both a software and a hardware solution that will solve screen tearing and stuttering. A daughter hardware board is placed into a G-Sync enabled monitor which will do something very interesting. It is now reported that ASUS signed an exclusive deal with Nvidia. Something I would not be happy about.

Swedish website sweclockers claims that the first wave G-Sync will be introduced in monitors with a 120 to 144 Hz refresh rate. The first screen was already announced by ASUS, which is the VG248QE with a price tag of roughly €300 / $412 / £257, price that reportedly will go higher.

This means that other manufacturers will have to wait until the third or fourth quarter of 2013 before they can integrate it into their monitors. In the end if this information is right it will be a bad deal for the consumers as exclusivity drives prices upwards, which is exactly something you do not want to happen with new technology.

If all this is true, then the decision made could impact and even deny other manufacturers like BenQ, Philips and Viewsonic the ability to provide a variety of products, leading to slow adoption rate and sale decrease.
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Its just another way to drive prices up, Monitors have been pretty cheap, not for much longer, Asus will slap a £100~ premium ontop of their G-Sync panels as its "an exclusive feature" and eventually use to to creep them all up, set a new price standard which everyone else will follow.

Nvidia are already trying to force a new much higher price point for GPU's and it seems to me Asus have been working a little to close with them.

This just adds to a spiral of death for the accessible Gaming PC's, it becomes more and more expensive, fewer people taking it up going for Game Consoles instead.

Lets hope AMD can put a stop to this now to by offering a much more cost effective alternative thats not going to be locked to scientific hardware vendors.
 
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If the only option of a monitor is one with a G-Sync module already built in from Asus, you will be right but I bet money you can buy one without and all you AMD owners can find something else to whinge at Nvidia for.

I am all for new tech and if AMD developed it and it works as well as is being made out, I would be jumping on AMD cards. If more devs take up Mantle and it gives what some guys have touted (30% performance gains), I will be jumping on that. I don't see the point of berating something that isn't out yet because of 'just in case'.

Wait and see and stop getting so irate. It is ridicules to think that Asus will only make G-Sync models.
 
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