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

Stanners said:
When are the first monitors due, anyone know?
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I think it's towards the end of the year, early next year. I will see if i can get something more specific Stanners.

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The article says

AMD is working closely with these vendors to bring products to market, and we expect compatible monitors in the 4Q14-1Q15 timeframe.
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It still puzzles me slightly why they won't name these vendors that are implementing it? The first thing nvidia did with gsync was say "these vendors listed here are going to use it". They didn't even reveal the vendor behind that demo unit with modified firmware.
 
pgi947 said:
It still puzzles me slightly why they won't name these vendors that are implementing it? The first thing nvidia did with gsync was say "these vendors listed here are going to use it". They didn't even reveal the vendor behind that demo unit with modified firmware.
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I'm no expert on monitors, but I'd expect most will implement it in new models now it's part of the Display standard.
 
We don't know if it will be most or just a handful, it's an addition to existing dp spec, it doesn't have to be implemented to all new monitors at all. If amd have set an eta of monitor release they must have an idea of who is doing it?

As I said I just find it odd nothing about vendor is stated nor has any vendor come forward and say they will be supporting it.

Some nice wide operating ranges though, 35-240hz!
 
You would expect that AMD would be talking to a handful of manufacturers to get products out as quick as possible, the 6 month time frame is very aggressive to get a new product out so one/some manufacturers must have given AMD a definite yes that they are, it would be even better positive PR for AMD if it was "most" instead of the 3-4 that gsync has, so a bit strange they arent advertising it yet
 
LtMatt said:
Shame this had to get tacked onto an old, long bloated thread. :rolleyes:
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That was my request as there was nothing new in your post that hasn't been covered in this thread. More than happy if Vendors were putting names to it or there was a release date for it to stay as a separate thread but nothing new in your OP. :)
 
I can't imagine the monitor I want will turn free sync for ages, they're pumping out the 3440X1440 screens by like October time, probably take a year till they refresh (if they refresh)
 
Gregster said:
That was my request as there was nothing new in your post that hasn't been covered in this thread. More than happy if Vendors were putting names to it or there was a release date for it to stay as a separate thread but nothing new in your OP. :)
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The information in the OP is from Jan 2014 though. There may be other bits somewhere in the 24 page thread, but it's a bit annoying having to dig through an old thread trying to find an FAQ. Sometimes it's just easier to have all the new info in one post in the OP i think rather than tacking everything on to an old thread which is full of arguments.
 
LtMatt said:
The information in the OP is from Jan 2014 though. There may be other bits somewhere in the 24 page thread, but it's a bit annoying having to dig through an old thread trying to find an FAQ. Sometimes it's just easier to have all the new info in one post in the OP i think rather than tacking everything on to an old thread which is full of arguments.
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Well it is all there now in the last page of this thread and you could have just added your new info to it :)

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Looking for some new info on possible freesync manufacturers and couldn't find anything but did find this from Toms (July 14th). Make of it as you will.

It looks like Adaptive-Sync might just become standard fare on DisplayPort-enabled monitors a couple years down the road.

AMD has been making lots of noise about Project FreeSync these past few months, but has also left plenty of questions unanswered. We’ve all been curious about how the industry is responding to AMD's FreeSync efforts, so we asked. It’s no surprise that AMD is confident when it comes to predicting the success of those efforts, especially based on its purported cooperation with major scaler players, but if the company’s optimism is met with any semblance of reality, we’ll see widespread support for Adaptive-Sync in monitors with DisplayPort interfaces in the not-so-distant future.

As a refresher for the uninitiated, Project FreeSync is AMD's effort to get mainstream adoption of the VESA Adaptive-Sync specification, which is implemented in DisplayPort 1.2a. Using this, a graphics card can work with supporting monitors to eliminate tearing and stuttering in games. Before Adaptive-Sync, you would have to live with these artifacts, or, if you enabled V-Sync, you could eliminate the tearing but would suffer even greater stuttering.

Nvidia has a similar, proprietary technology that it calls G-Sync, which we've tested and it works.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-project-freesync-vesa-adaptive-sync,27160.html
 
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Phixsator said:
Go away please, preaching to the wrong audience Jen-Hsun Huang.
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I'm sorry? Don't like the truth? Don't forget ive owned and own AMD cards for some time now and know too well what things are broken and how many work arounds I need to do to make things work.
 
Locky said:
Anything AMD makes will be broken, just like their drivers, mantle and soon freesync.
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Another stupid all encompassing statement, they have made things that have not worked perfectly straight away yes but so has just about every other company out there.

Maybe in this modern world because things come to market, especially software that needs extensive testing and so it gets launched with a BETA tag attached, we notice the cracks and issues more, but an awful lot of stuff also works great straight away. If a company always launched broken products they would go out of business very quickly.
 
Locky said:
I'm sorry? Don't like the truth? Don't forget ive owned and own AMD cards for some time now and know too well what things are broken and how many work arounds I need to do to make things work.
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So what?? I have loads of mates who have had AMD GCN based cards and have been mostly fine under Windows. I have a GTX660 which has had some niggles(well known issues) but has mostly been fine. If there is an issue simply roll back to an earlier driver - Planetside2 started crashing repeatedly on my card with one driver version recently,so I just rolled back to an earlier one,until the problem was solved. Metro:Last Light was known for corruption issues at launch. SR3 and SR4 had problems with some Nvidia driver versions(replicated by other mates with Kepler based cards too). These are all documented.

Looking over the dozens of AMD/ATI and Nvidia cards I have owned and that of mates over the last decade,there have been very few issues per se,and if they are very few have been longterm game breaking ones. However,both do have documented problems.
 
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