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

Chuk_Chuk · 18 Sep 2014 at 21:51

MrMD said:
Supposedly monitors that support Freesync are meant to be getting shipped to tech sites this month for previews ect.

With them hitting the market end of this year/start of next year.

Hope its soon tho,wanna see if freesync is the real deal.If it is i will be all over one of those monitors on launch

Too far away. I probably should also wait for second revisions.

Martini1991 · 18 Sep 2014 at 21:51

nitram100 said:
Does this mean freesync monitors will be a lot cheaper than gysnc equivalents?

In monitors that the Gsync module isn't subsidised, then yes.

llamadal · 18 Sep 2014 at 21:52

I just ignore anything by that name.

Gsync is here now and while I hope freesync turns out to be good, it certainly was never going to be free, or just work on everything available. If more time was spent on development and quality rather than pr, then I'm sure it would be out by now.

Gregster · 18 Sep 2014 at 21:54

The new scalers will add cost to the monitors ($20?), but AMD won't charge a penny for it, so that is good news.

Martini1991 · 18 Sep 2014 at 21:56

Gregster said:
The new scalers will add cost to the monitors ($20?), but AMD won't charge a penny for it, so that is good news.

AMD can't really charge for anything, but they're being shady when mentioning the BOM (Despite officially mentioning it themselves, but since then they've only mentioned Gsync's BOM as if adaptive sync didn't have one)

Gregster · 18 Sep 2014 at 22:10

Martini1991 said:
AMD can't really charge for anything, but they're being shady when mentioning the BOM (Despite officially mentioning it themselves, but since then they've only mentioned Gsync's BOM as if adaptive sync didn't have one)

Well that Dick Huddy mentioned that the Scaler would add a cost of $20 iirc to the monitor manufacturer, where as the nVidia equivalent adds $150 iirc, so for those who are willing to wait months will get the better deal. You are spot on and if AMD charged anything, they would have had to do something in the first place, which they haven't. I suppose they could charge for typing an email to VESA and requesting that adaptive sync becomes part of DP1.3 but that would be harsh

andybird123 · 18 Sep 2014 at 22:14

we don't know what the cost of the gysnc module is to monitor manufacturers, we only know the kind of end user prices (the add on module for that early Asus model was a complete monitor driver board, not just the gsync module)

Martini1991 · 18 Sep 2014 at 22:16

andybird123 said:
we don't know what the cost of the gysnc module is to monitor manufacturers, we only know the kind of end user prices (the add on module for that early Asus model was a complete monitor driver board, not just the gsync module)

Indeed, a blanket price difference as AMD have given really can't be taken as gospel.

We'll have to wait till more Gsync monitors come out really.

Gregster · 18 Sep 2014 at 22:30

andybird123 said:
we don't know what the cost of the gysnc module is to monitor manufacturers, we only know the kind of end user prices (the add on module for that early Asus model was a complete monitor driver board, not just the gsync module)

Martini1991 said:
Indeed, a blanket price difference as AMD have given really can't be taken as gospel.

We'll have to wait till more Gsync monitors come out really.

I have no idea how much it cost (for either) but that Dick reckoned it was $150 on his PR chat. I found it funny anyway, as he was talking about freesync like it was ready and then said it hasn't gone into production yet

pgi947 · 18 Sep 2014 at 22:48

No longer care what it does and doesn't cost extra, entirely worth charging for IMO.

Orangey · 19 Sep 2014 at 00:43

Before long any monitor sold as "gaming" is gonna have sync so it's really moot

gothic_hobbit · 28 Oct 2014 at 15:47

Orangey said:
Colours are awful on the BENQ to begin with...

This.

I bought a Benq monitor and the colours looked washed out.

shankly1985 · 28 Oct 2014 at 15:55

gothic_hobbit said:
This.

I bought a Benq monitor and the colours looked washed out.

The stock preset is very bad, its set to CSGO FPS profile.

With some tweaking and loading f an ICC profile you can get the colours looking very good.

Least that's how mine looks, cant compare it to an ISP panel never used one.

jupiter_man · 28 Oct 2014 at 16:04

Almost November...still no freesync review video

Gregster · 28 Oct 2014 at 16:23

jupiter_man said:
Almost November...still no freesync review video

Well going from Roy's latest interview, he points to 2015 being an exciting time for AMD, so I wouldn't expect any news yet.

shankly1985 · 18 Feb 2015 at 05:08

Acer new 1440p 144hz Freesync looks sweet.. The choice is becoming more hard for me the closer to release.
How nice does that look.

http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/uncat...lay-with-144hz-refresh-rate-and-amd-freesync/

malachi · 18 Feb 2015 at 06:23

Freesync monitors still set for next month?

Gregster · 18 Feb 2015 at 07:03

malachi said:
Freesync monitors still set for next month?

Yes, they have been set for December, January, February and March

Mtom · 18 Feb 2015 at 07:48

Gregster said:
Yes, they have been set for December, January, February and March

AMD FreeSync monitors to be available by Q1 2015 by Mark Tyson on 19 September 2014, 10:00

They have been set for 2015 since september.

Gregster · 18 Feb 2015 at 08:25

Mtom said:
AMD FreeSync monitors to be available by Q1 2015 by Mark Tyson on 19 September 2014, 10:00

They have been set for 2015 since september.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18636593

Huddy claims that FreeSync monitors will start shipping from December

http://hexus.net/tech/news/monitors/77201-amds-richard-huddy-provides-freesync-update/

http://techreport.com/news/27484/freesync-monitors-hit-mass-production-coming-in-jan-feb

I can also do that

And as for the thread title. Soon being 13 months and counting?