Caporegime
During CES nVidia's CEO announced they would be supporting the Adaptive Sync Technology that does not require the proprietary G-Sync module, these screens are AMD's equivalent open standard technology called Free-Sync.
Jensen Huang claims they have tested over 400 Free-Sync screens for G-Sync without the G-Sync module for compatibility and only 12 of those pass their certification standards.
Huang went on to state that some of the screens he tested had serious flaws, like flicking and poor image quality, he even insisted these screens do not work on AMD's GPU's.
Now, some have speculated that what nVidia are infact doing is certifying Free-Sync screens as G-Sync compatible for a monetary fee paid for by vendors who wish to have said certification which in turn opens up a much wider market for them.
With all the noise Huang is making about Free Sync being flawed it suggests only the certified screen's actually work, Its very aggressive marketing based deliberately on hyperbolic falsehoods.
Free-Sync has been around for some years now, if it was unusable technology on AMD GPU's i think we would have heard about those problems by now, in fact most tech journalists who have commented on it have said they don't recognise Jensen Huang claims.
And surely a flickering screen is grounds for RMA, vendors are not selling flickering screens and claiming its normal. or are they? you can answer that.
IMO Jensen Huang has found another revenue stream and is trying to force screen vendors to pay him for certification by planting the idea in peoples heads that Adaptive Sync Technology only works with nVidia's certification and doesn't work at all on AMD's GPU's.
I'm interested to know how right Jensen Huang is about how much people actually believe him.
The poll question:
Do you believe Jensen Huang's claims about the Free-Sync?
Possible Answerers:
I believe Jensen Huang.
I do not believe Jensen Huang.
Pancakes
https://www.pcworld.com/article/333...x-2080-will-crush-amds-underwhelming-gpu.html
Jensen Huang claims they have tested over 400 Free-Sync screens for G-Sync without the G-Sync module for compatibility and only 12 of those pass their certification standards.
Huang went on to state that some of the screens he tested had serious flaws, like flicking and poor image quality, he even insisted these screens do not work on AMD's GPU's.
Now, some have speculated that what nVidia are infact doing is certifying Free-Sync screens as G-Sync compatible for a monetary fee paid for by vendors who wish to have said certification which in turn opens up a much wider market for them.
With all the noise Huang is making about Free Sync being flawed it suggests only the certified screen's actually work, Its very aggressive marketing based deliberately on hyperbolic falsehoods.
Free-Sync has been around for some years now, if it was unusable technology on AMD GPU's i think we would have heard about those problems by now, in fact most tech journalists who have commented on it have said they don't recognise Jensen Huang claims.
And surely a flickering screen is grounds for RMA, vendors are not selling flickering screens and claiming its normal. or are they? you can answer that.
IMO Jensen Huang has found another revenue stream and is trying to force screen vendors to pay him for certification by planting the idea in peoples heads that Adaptive Sync Technology only works with nVidia's certification and doesn't work at all on AMD's GPU's.
I'm interested to know how right Jensen Huang is about how much people actually believe him.
The poll question:
Do you believe Jensen Huang's claims about the Free-Sync?
Possible Answerers:
I believe Jensen Huang.
I do not believe Jensen Huang.
Pancakes
’FreeSync doesn’t work’
On Sunday, Nvidia announced it would begin supporting Vesa Adaptive Sync, aka AMD’s FreeSync for variable refresh rate gaming. While some have painted this as Nvidia finally caving, that doesn’t seem to be Huang’s view.
“We never competed,” Huang said of upcoming FreeSync support. “(FreeSync) was never proven to work. As you know, we invented the area of adaptive sync. The truth is most of the FreeSync monitors do not work. They do not even work with AMD’s graphics cards.”
Huang’s criticism can probably be easily dismissed as hyperbole as clearly the bulk of AMD Radeon and FreeSync users have had no issues.
However, he does have data from his own labs that say there are problems from Nvidia’s point of view. The company tested 400 FreeSync panels and found only 12 that would turn on G-Sync automatically. The others require a manual override.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/333...x-2080-will-crush-amds-underwhelming-gpu.html
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