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AMD freesync coming soon, no extra costs.... shocker

triss said:
Why not?
IMO someone with a older 600 series card that cant push enough fps to keep it nice and smooth is the idea person forGsync to do its thing
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Your right a 600 series is a different matter, I was responding to the mentioned 500 series or older, I think that someone who's on an old card that's from the 500 range (or before) and that lacks ram is unlikely to be considering spending money on that sort of monitor before getting a gpu upgrade, I mean a 570 has around 1.2 gb's and a 580 has 1.5 gb's, I'd think that the ram amount alone makes them in need of a card update before buying high end components like G-sync screens that are on at least 1080p.
 
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triss said:
Some older AMD cards like the 7000 series iirc are compatible with freesync for watching movies etc,, Not gaming, Gaming is the newer ones only, Thats how they got around saying what cards were supported, pretty sure thats what i read but i'm sure someone will confirm/deny
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Why on earth would you want dynamic refresh rates for a fixed FPS video playback.......... :confused:
 
Final8y said:
So that the refresh matches the video playback, instead of the refresh being 144hz, 120hz, 60hz no matter the fps of the video being played, so a refresh of 24hz on 24fps video being played.
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The thing is have you ever had any of the issues that free-sync addresses when playing videos? I can't ever remember having had them myself. It's not a feature that matters for video playback, AMD was pulling a fast one by not properly explaining that many of the card's originally mentioned as being capable of running it could only do so in video playback where it is not needed or wanted by those who were all getting excited for it.
 
nashathedog said:
The thing is have you ever had any of the issues that free-sync addresses when playing videos?
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The words of somebody who enjoys judder with their video.

You don't need the likes of xyzSync to sort it out though, MadVR and a few custom refresh rates and job done. When I watch 23.976fps content on my TV, the stats state that I will have a single frame repeat after around 10 hours of continuous playback. Leave everything out of the box and worst case you can be looking at a frame drop/repeat every few seconds.
 
nashathedog said:
The thing is have you ever had any of the issues that free-sync addresses when playing videos? I can't ever remember having had them myself. It's not a feature that matters for video playback, AMD was pulling a fast one by not properly explaining that many of the card's originally mentioned as being capable of running it could only do so in video playback where it is not needed or wanted by those who were all getting excited for it.
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I have explained facts of what it is for and that's all, i could not care less if you think you need it or not.
 
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nashathedog said:
The thing is have you ever had any of the issues that free-sync addresses when playing videos? I can't ever remember having had them myself. It's not a feature that matters for video playback, AMD was pulling a fast one by not properly explaining that many of the card's originally mentioned as being capable of running it could only do so in video playback where it is not needed or wanted by those who were all getting excited for it.
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It would help with Motion Judder.
 
At the end of the day I'm not going to be persuaded that this will suddenly create a night and day scenario when I watch dvd's that run fine anyway.

No-one who's honest about it can say they were thinking about it's effect in a the video playback scenario on it's announcement, It was all about what it does for gaming but now that we've learned that half the cards that support it only do so in video's certain people want to make a case where that does matter after all.

I bet you'll all be jumping to a card that does support gaming if your current one doesn't when the time comes though. Why? Because suddenly it will be what matters.
 
triss said:
Why not?
IMO someone with a older 600 series card that cant push enough fps to keep it nice and smooth is the idea person forGsync to do its thing
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melmac said:
Really? Will there be much difference? you forget that all GCN APUs support freesync. people using Nvidia 5xx series cards and older will have to upgrade if they want Gsync.
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I will reply to you both.

According to AMD FAQ

The AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2, 290X, R9 290, R7 260X and R7 260 GPUs additionally feature updated display controllers that will support dynamic refresh rates during gaming.
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These cards came out last 10 months, so you complain that a 4 year old Nvidia 5xx should support Gsync, while Freesync is supported by current cards only?
But hold on a minute. Half the current AMD line on sale of mid-high range doesn't support it for gaming either!!!!!! (270/270X/280X/280)


The GTX660 came out March 2012!!!!!! and supports GSync.
650Ti/660/660Ti/670/680/690. 750/750Ti/760/770/780/780Ti and both Titans.

This is the mid range or better of all Nvidia GPUs over the last two and half years. Not 4 cards that came out the last 10 months.
 
Does anyone know if these new Sync technologies (free-Sync G-Sync) actually do 23.976hz for movies or is it still going to be 24Hz ?
 
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