Hello.
I'm looking at the possibility of buying a Free-Sync Screen in a few weeks.
What i'm looking for are 1440P to 4K at roughly the £250 mark.
My option are pretty dire, basically this Iiyama Prolite B2783QSU-B1 27" 2560x1440
I remember that screen appearing when Free-Sync first launched, its one of the first screens to be badged as such, it has a Free-Sync Range of 48 to 70 FPS, thats no use to me, more on that later.
A wider range of Free-Sync screens available in the higher price range but i would have thought by now Free-Sync would have worked its way right across the range, to make it an affordable alternative to G-Sync was the intention, or not?
Its not as if 1440P screens are a rare thing around the £250 mark.
This is a nice screen
Here
4K one Here
Here
£199 Here
Another 4K screen for £290. Here
You get the picture ^^^^ see for yourselves, the next cheapest Free-Sync screen above 1080P is £320, granted its a 4K screen but thats not necessarily what i'm looking for, if i was inclined to spend enough on GPU power for 4K gaming i'm going to be spending more than £320 on a 4K screen.
With my main point made i want to get back to Free-Sync Refresh Rate ranges.
With regards to that Iiyama Free-Sync screen.
I'm one of CiG Star Citizen Evocati Testers, i spend a lot of time in that game and with the Net Code the way it currently is the Frame Rates at the best of times don't get to 48, even on virtually empty test servers.
Ideally i would be looking for something that ranges from 20 FPS but i know thats probably asking a bit much, an entirely new Net Code Architecture is currently being built primarily to handle greatly expended content but also to improve client performance, so with that a range of 30 FPS is surly not too much to ask.
Thats me and i specific needs but i cannot imagine a range of 48 to 70 FPS being all that inviting to a lot of people, if people looking at £250 1440P screens looking for a better quality of image the higher resolution gives them over the 1080P screen they may have had for years then they are likely to be put off.
A Free-Sync screen is in fact something that someone on a budget would be very interested in as they are likely to have GPU's that cannot drive 1440P at high frame rates and with Free-Sync thats not a problem because the game play is smooth even at 30/35 FPS, and yet if they need to get the Frame rates up to 48 before it even starts to work then its useless to them.
Screen Vendors want to sell screens, the chances are there are millions of people all with 1080P screens hanging on to them as they do not see the point in upgrading or rather 'side grading' to another 1080P screen.
But with affordable 1440P screens that have Free-Sync in a range that does not require high end GPU's to drive high frame rates for smooth gameplay suddenly you have something to offer a huge potential market.
I don't understand how Screen Vendors and their marketing teams haven't already come to realise this, Free-Sync if targeted and marketed correctly has the potential to drive significant sales to a sector of consumers you couldn't without it.
thanks for reading.
I'm looking at the possibility of buying a Free-Sync Screen in a few weeks.
What i'm looking for are 1440P to 4K at roughly the £250 mark.
My option are pretty dire, basically this Iiyama Prolite B2783QSU-B1 27" 2560x1440
I remember that screen appearing when Free-Sync first launched, its one of the first screens to be badged as such, it has a Free-Sync Range of 48 to 70 FPS, thats no use to me, more on that later.
A wider range of Free-Sync screens available in the higher price range but i would have thought by now Free-Sync would have worked its way right across the range, to make it an affordable alternative to G-Sync was the intention, or not?
Its not as if 1440P screens are a rare thing around the £250 mark.
This is a nice screen
Here
4K one Here
Here
£199 Here
Another 4K screen for £290. Here
You get the picture ^^^^ see for yourselves, the next cheapest Free-Sync screen above 1080P is £320, granted its a 4K screen but thats not necessarily what i'm looking for, if i was inclined to spend enough on GPU power for 4K gaming i'm going to be spending more than £320 on a 4K screen.
With my main point made i want to get back to Free-Sync Refresh Rate ranges.
With regards to that Iiyama Free-Sync screen.
I'm one of CiG Star Citizen Evocati Testers, i spend a lot of time in that game and with the Net Code the way it currently is the Frame Rates at the best of times don't get to 48, even on virtually empty test servers.
Ideally i would be looking for something that ranges from 20 FPS but i know thats probably asking a bit much, an entirely new Net Code Architecture is currently being built primarily to handle greatly expended content but also to improve client performance, so with that a range of 30 FPS is surly not too much to ask.
Thats me and i specific needs but i cannot imagine a range of 48 to 70 FPS being all that inviting to a lot of people, if people looking at £250 1440P screens looking for a better quality of image the higher resolution gives them over the 1080P screen they may have had for years then they are likely to be put off.
A Free-Sync screen is in fact something that someone on a budget would be very interested in as they are likely to have GPU's that cannot drive 1440P at high frame rates and with Free-Sync thats not a problem because the game play is smooth even at 30/35 FPS, and yet if they need to get the Frame rates up to 48 before it even starts to work then its useless to them.
Screen Vendors want to sell screens, the chances are there are millions of people all with 1080P screens hanging on to them as they do not see the point in upgrading or rather 'side grading' to another 1080P screen.
But with affordable 1440P screens that have Free-Sync in a range that does not require high end GPU's to drive high frame rates for smooth gameplay suddenly you have something to offer a huge potential market.
I don't understand how Screen Vendors and their marketing teams haven't already come to realise this, Free-Sync if targeted and marketed correctly has the potential to drive significant sales to a sector of consumers you couldn't without it.
thanks for reading.
