Caporegime
Hey everyone,
Sorry for the delay in posting in here, I've been chasing down the right people who could answer questions in this thread with answers that are both informative and factual.
There seems to be a lot of misinformation and assumptions being made and I'm hoping we can address that by responding to your questions personally.
I have our technology manager behind AMD FreeSync(TM) ready and waiting to answer your questions, so please post away and I'll edit this initial post to include those.
Once I have a selection of questions (Please, let's try and stay on topic) I'll pass them over internally for answers, posting back here with the final responses.
Q&A
Gibbo
Yes, this driver has been scheduled for some time. The 19th is a firm date.
This will be a non-WHQL as with many of our recent postings, but rest-assured, this driver will have received an extensive amount of testing by the time it gets posted.
Our April AMD Catalyst driver.
Monitors entered the market ahead of our driver schedule. We’re pleased by the enthusiasm demonstrated by our partners, but users deserve a robust driver with appropriate quality and testing. Our March 19th date ensures this.
144Hz functions correctly on the BenQ and Acer FreeSync monitors with the March 19 driver.
Tommybhoy
As indicated to many outlets, AMD FreeSync was activated for special builds for partners to enable validation. The March 19th driver has a refined user experience that is ideal for daily use.
VSR and FreeSync will work immediately with the March 19th driver. mGPU support will arrive in our April driver.
Martini1991
When our April Catalyst driver arrives with AMD FreeSync + CrossFire support, yes.
Yes, of course, AMD works closely with all our partners to test all candidate FreeSync monitors for compatibility and the highest quality experience. On the strength or our technology, we have been forming strong partnerships with many monitor vendors, and we’re happy to have them on board. That being said, it’s difficult to line up schedules with multiple companies, regions and shipping logistics. We communicated a March 19th driver availability date to all of our partners.
Quartz
Supported products are listed at www.amd.com/freesync. Products like HD 7000 and HD 6000 lack the right display controllers (the link between GPU<->display) to perform highly dynamic adjustments of refresh rates. This is a hardware limitation that cannot be overcome with software.
We’ve designed Freesync to support the latest open industry standards to ensure a great experience with no or low incremental cost to partners and customers. We did this to ensure customers do not have to pay for a module at all when AMD FreeSync conclusively proves such hardware is costly and unnecessary.
Shankly1985
No. BenQ’s Blur Reduction requires that AMD FreeSync be disabled.
Nails666
Answered above.
Yes.
Dockie
They lack the correct display controllers. This piece of silicon on the graphics chip interfaces with the graphics die and the monitor. Older AMD Radeon GPUs are not capable of executing highly dynamic refresh rate adjustments in their display controller.
VSR will not be introduced to the HD 7000 Series.
Nails666
Doing Eyefinity + AMD FreeSync will require all displays to have the same timings, i.e. the same monitor. If you have just one display with AMD FreeSync, and the rest are not, then of course only that one display would have AMD FreeSync activated.
Sorry for the delay in posting in here, I've been chasing down the right people who could answer questions in this thread with answers that are both informative and factual.
There seems to be a lot of misinformation and assumptions being made and I'm hoping we can address that by responding to your questions personally.
I have our technology manager behind AMD FreeSync(TM) ready and waiting to answer your questions, so please post away and I'll edit this initial post to include those.
Once I have a selection of questions (Please, let's try and stay on topic) I'll pass them over internally for answers, posting back here with the final responses.
Q&A
Gibbo
Yes, this driver has been scheduled for some time. The 19th is a firm date.
This will be a non-WHQL as with many of our recent postings, but rest-assured, this driver will have received an extensive amount of testing by the time it gets posted.
Our April AMD Catalyst driver.
Monitors entered the market ahead of our driver schedule. We’re pleased by the enthusiasm demonstrated by our partners, but users deserve a robust driver with appropriate quality and testing. Our March 19th date ensures this.
144Hz functions correctly on the BenQ and Acer FreeSync monitors with the March 19 driver.
Tommybhoy
As indicated to many outlets, AMD FreeSync was activated for special builds for partners to enable validation. The March 19th driver has a refined user experience that is ideal for daily use.
VSR and FreeSync will work immediately with the March 19th driver. mGPU support will arrive in our April driver.
Martini1991
When our April Catalyst driver arrives with AMD FreeSync + CrossFire support, yes.
Yes, of course, AMD works closely with all our partners to test all candidate FreeSync monitors for compatibility and the highest quality experience. On the strength or our technology, we have been forming strong partnerships with many monitor vendors, and we’re happy to have them on board. That being said, it’s difficult to line up schedules with multiple companies, regions and shipping logistics. We communicated a March 19th driver availability date to all of our partners.
Quartz
Supported products are listed at www.amd.com/freesync. Products like HD 7000 and HD 6000 lack the right display controllers (the link between GPU<->display) to perform highly dynamic adjustments of refresh rates. This is a hardware limitation that cannot be overcome with software.
We’ve designed Freesync to support the latest open industry standards to ensure a great experience with no or low incremental cost to partners and customers. We did this to ensure customers do not have to pay for a module at all when AMD FreeSync conclusively proves such hardware is costly and unnecessary.
Shankly1985
No. BenQ’s Blur Reduction requires that AMD FreeSync be disabled.
Nails666
Answered above.
Yes.
Dockie
They lack the correct display controllers. This piece of silicon on the graphics chip interfaces with the graphics die and the monitor. Older AMD Radeon GPUs are not capable of executing highly dynamic refresh rate adjustments in their display controller.
VSR will not be introduced to the HD 7000 Series.
Nails666
Doing Eyefinity + AMD FreeSync will require all displays to have the same timings, i.e. the same monitor. If you have just one display with AMD FreeSync, and the rest are not, then of course only that one display would have AMD FreeSync activated.
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