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If Nvidia suddenly adopted adaptive sync (Freesync)

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Just a random thought. I often see people state that they would only go with Nvidia if they supported adaptive sync, or it is their freesync monitor which means they stay with AMD. However, what would happen if Nvidia suddenly adopted adaptive sync? or perhaps had adopted this 6-9 months ago, what would this have done to AMD, if anything?

Clearly there are those who do not like Nvidia's work ethics regardless and wouldn't touch them with a bargepole, but what affect would it have had?
 
A standard adaptive sync technology would be fantastic for the consumer.

Locking people in to one brand with a propriety sync tech when an open standard exists is unnecessary and anti-competitive.
 
I get that Minstadave, however, do you think it could have potentially sunk the graphics card division if it had been adopted 6-9 months ago? Its all very well not liking these lock-ins however it may be providing AMD with a lifeline?
 
Well there are those who have held off purchasing new cards because they have a freesync monitor and are waiting for Vega. If Nvidia had adaptive sync perhaps those sitting on the fence may have switched to an Nvidia card before now, rather than wait for Vega,as they would not have had to.

Edit: Lifeline is probably the wrong word, as there are other reasons for not wanting to go Nvidia.
 
I see what you mean, however in the rand scheme if things I think adaptive sync is still pretty niche. I don't think it'd have had a huge effect.
 
It would be cool however I would be worried it might mean they were thinking of giving up on Gsync.


Minstadave said:
Locking people in to one brand with a propriety sync tech when an open standard exists is unnecessary and anti-competitive.
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AMD had the option of using Gsync just like they did with Physx.
 
ubersonic said:
It would be cool however I would be worried it might mean they were thinking of giving up on Gsync.



AMD had the option of using Gsync just like they did with Physx.
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Even if they did "give up" on G-Sync (unlikely IMO, they'd just brand it as the premium version of Adaptive Sync that "just werks"), existing G-Sync monitors and cards wouldn't suddenly stop working. There's no way they'd remove support for it in driver updates either, so not sure why you'd be worried.
 
ubersonic said:
AMD had the option of using Gsync just like they did with Physx.
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At what cost? Would they be paying licensing to Nvidia and commiting their customers to paying for Gsync modules?

Much better to be using an open standard (my limited understanding is that Freesync is the same as Displayport's adaptive sync) - especially if it's baked into the Displayport spec, than using Nvidia's proprietary tech that is expensive to implement.
 
Elon Musk learned that slapping patents on every technology you come up with (or don't in the case of nVidia quite frequently) usually costs you more than it's worth in the long run.
 
Minstadave said:
At what cost? Would they be paying licensing to Nvidia and commiting their customers to paying for Gsync modules?
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I cannot speak for Nvidia, however thinking logically it would be unlikely that they would charge competitors to use Gsync, as they get licensing fees from monitor manufacturers who implement it, so the more GPUs that support it the greater demand for monitors that do and the greater revenue from that. In fact that may well have been their plan before Freesync arrived to the party.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Elon Musk learned that slapping patents on every technology you come up with (or don't in the case of nVidia quite frequently) usually costs you more than it's worth in the long run.
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I'm going to troll a bit and ask what technologies has Musk come up with that were worth patenting?
All he did was combine old (often decades old) technologies with good PR.
And Tesla releasing patents was another PR move
 
Given NVIDIA do support it, just with a limited subset of their (mobile) GPUs, I can only see it being an advantage to them to fully support it. At the moment NVIDIA cards have one big downside in any price comparison - the extra many bucks for gsync if that is desired. As all three major players support adaptive sync and it's not an expensive add-on I don't see it disappearing any time soon, plus spreading to TVs and consoles is likely to make it last longer.

Given lack of competition for the higher end it's less relevant, and mining has made mid-range prices crazy... but before that the 480 / 580 vs the 1060 if interested in sync tech was very heavily AMD-biased by the price of gsync.
 
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I'd be interested in a 1080ti if they supported Adaptive Sync. That's one of the main reasons I'm avoiding upgrading, I want a monitor with adaptive sync.
 
If Nvidia supported adaptive/freesync, yes I would have bought one of their cards this upgrade.

However they don't so it's a lost sale for Nvidia from me, as I won't fork out the premium for a g-sync monitor
 
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