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FreeSync monitors hit mass production, coming in Jan-Feb

Gregster said:
I have to use 1.57v to try and squeeze a 5Ghz run but was previously only 1.495V. Temps are good but I did do a lot of benching and I am now suffering for that.
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OK i'm at 4.6 at 1.41ish so i'm a way off that then. I'm running Badboy's old Eisberg keeping things about 56 degrees in BF4 though i've no doubt if i started running IBT it would be in the high 80s...
 
Gregster said:
Tom Peterson did say that they will be continuing to work on G-Sync and expect more to come. He didn't rule out that A-Sync would never be supported but it isn't on the cards for now.


Skip to 1:27:15 for that info and take as you will.
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It isn't on the cards for now is the exact reason Nvidia won't be supporting adaptive sync for the moment :)

Sorry, stupid play on words :p No NVidia card has the controller needed so they can't use adaptive sync monitors even if they wanted to.
 
setter said:
Would be nice, but id say they will be very expensive. Take the swift for example, 600 quid Ono for a TN panel at this res, a VA model I suspect will be more. I also reckon 2560x1440 TN freesync models will be pretty high priced on release too.
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I do wonder how much harder it is for manufacturers to produce these freesync monitors with the latest display port revision. That alone will have the biggest bearing on what the final price will be.

I'm also not sold on this technology, when Nvidia were promoting Gsync they had live demo's where you could play all the latest games at trade shows and press events where as AMD have been very coy with regards to showing of the technology and all we have had a Windmill spinning around slowly. :o
 
Hopefully we see a freesync monitor with similar spec to the swift otherwise gsync still has a slight upperhand. Personally I would not replace my 144hz BenQ for another monitor of the exact same spec with freesync.

27" 1440p 144hz freesync please!
 
melmac said:
Yeah the only way we are going to get a monitor of that spec at that price is if the monitor manufacturer goes the adaptive sync route.
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At most a Gsync might add 10-15 quid above a Freesync monitor, I doubt the manufacturers would bother setting specific RRPs or even bothering having mutliple SKUs that have or dont have Gsync/Freesync.

What will happen is there will be gaming orientated monitors that support both Freesync and Gsync at a premium price.
 
D.P. said:
At most a Gsync might add 10-15 quid above a Freesync monitor, I doubt the manufacturers would bother setting specific RRPs or even bothering having mutliple SKUs that have or dont have Gsync/Freesync.

What will happen is there will be gaming orientated monitors that support both Freesync and Gsync at a premium price.
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The scaler in a gsync monitor is made by nvidia, the monitor makers have no control over whether or not nvidia's scaler supports freesync or not - adaptive sync scalers are made by the regular scaler makers and have no ability to add gsync support

adaptive sync support in a gsync monitor is entirely in the hands if nvidia, so it seems pretty unlikely unless freesync picks up in a major way
 
D.P. said:
At most a Gsync might add 10-15 quid above a Freesync monitor, I doubt the manufacturers would bother setting specific RRPs or even bothering having mutliple SKUs that have or dont have Gsync/Freesync.

What will happen is there will be gaming orientated monitors that support both Freesync and Gsync at a premium price.
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Sorry, but, the Altera Arria V GX FPGA in the Gsync module is expensive. And it's a NVidia product. They aren't going to make this unit and sell it to monitor manufacturers for £10-£15.

And I don't think there will ever be a monitor with both adaptive sync and gsync. How would that work? The Gsync module replaces the scaler and other internals of monitor. You would need a completely separate scaler then for the adaptive sync. How bulky would that make the monitor? Can you even have two display ports on the one panel?

I am not sure that have adaptive sync and Gsync on the same monitor is even technically feasible.
 
Lambchop,

What happens when Nvidia implement AMD and SK Hynix's co-developed 3D stacked High Bandwidth Memory standard, you going to refuse to give AMD monies and stick on old tech?:p
 
andybird123 said:
adaptive sync support in a gsync monitor is entirely in the hands if nvidia, so it seems pretty unlikely unless adaptive sync picks up in a major way
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I corrected that for you. Freesync is how AMD will connect to an adaptive sync monitor. Remember Intel can use adaptive sync as well, in fact they probably just need a driver as I would imagine most of their IGPs have the same power saving features as AMD's APU's.
 
BS Dave said:
A third the price of the swift in the next month. Keep on dreaming Lambchop
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tommybhoy said:
Lambchop,

What happens when Nvidia implement AMD and SK Hynix's co-developed 3D stacked High Bandwidth Memory standard, you going to refuse to give AMD monies and stick on old tech?:p
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Well that's one way of putting it. AMD also 'jumped on board' with EA/Dice for Mantle, and jumped on board with Hynix for stacked memory.

However this develops, there may be instances in the future where I simply cannot avoid it. Where I can though, I will and have been.
 
Pricing on the BenQ will be very interesting, as it is benq's version of the Swift, it will be cheaper than the swift just because Asus overcharge for everything on top of it being unique when it came out, but how much cheaper and what will Asus do in response
 
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