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AMD : FreeSync Monitors Shipping in December – Will Cost $100 Less Than Nvidia G-Sync

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What's better drama mantle or freesync threads?

BTW I don't think gsync is locked in to TN, pretty sure they said IPS will be available later. Although TN is by far the best use case until more panels get 120hz.
 
The question I'm much more interested in, is when are there going to be drivers availible for freesync from AMD.
If there are already monitors out there that can be updated why isnt there drivers already availible?

I can think of nothing worse than the arguments that will festoon these forums when people are telling us how great their new monitor is and how they cannot wait for a driver to be able to use freesync.
 
The firmware isn't publicly available, there is only one released (unknown)monitor known to be freesync compatible, perhaps cross that bridge when the monitors arrive if there isn't driver support on official day of release.
 
Perhaps what’s quite fascinating is that according to Richard Huddy a number of monitors currently in the market only need a simple firmware update to support FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync. In fact monitor which was used in the FreeSync demonstration earlier this year wasn’t a prototype. It was an existing monitor which you could buy, only it had a firmware update to enable FreeSync.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-freesync-mo...january-driver-coming-december/#ixzz3J3ksWrXo

So what was that monitor? Here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHNIo-1NJzc
 
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Wccftech are crap.

The legit review article states only a single monitor.
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They are talking about what he said in the video? How about watch the video?

Here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3OAD-Dhs0

8:06 Project FreeSync ("effectively exactly the same as GSync")
9:56 Up to 240 Hz, open specifications.
10:00 Adopted by VISA standards authority, drivers around December
10:15 Compatible monitors available December or January
10:20 One vendor already ships compatible monitors, only firmware update needed.
10:33 free, no license fee. Expects rapid adoption
10:50 First graphics cards for Project FreeSync R9 290/290X & R7 260/260X
10:59 Requires graphics cards with 1.2a DisplayPort connector
11:48 All mayor scaler chip producers announced FreeSync adoption
12:00 Expects FreeSync Monitors to be $100 cheaper than GSync

One Vendor is shipping MonitorS right now!
 
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I'm at work, I can't watch the video.

If I ship 700 of one monitor. Am I not shipping monitors?

Anyway, that's what the legit review one says, that it's just a single monitor model. WCTech are crap though, so as a rule I don't believe anything on their say so :p. I'd rather a vendor actually be shipping multiple models that were all freesync capable though, so I do hope it's the latter rather than the former. But lets hope they do actually get a firmware update, and able to be done consumer side!
 
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