AMD: You'll hear more from us on G-Sync soon

[bru]

Not sure where you have got the idea that AMD came up with G-sync first?

This is possibly the article that has led rise to the belief that David Nalasco came up with the idea of G-sync

http://techreport.com/blog/25542/a-few-thoughts-on-nvidia-g-sync

You may remember that I touched on the possibility of a smarter vsync on this page of my original Inside the Second article. In fact, AMD's David Nalasco was the one who floated the idea.

Anyway here is the original very interesting old article mentioned above about frame metering and vsync issues with relation to SLI/crossfire stuttering and other multi GPU usage, with AMD's David Nalasco and Nvidia's Tom Petersen. goes to show that both companies have been looking at this syncing issue for many years, Nvidia have even had hardware in their GPU's since the g80 to do with frame metering.

http://techreport.com/review/21516/inside-the-second-a-new-look-at-game-benchmarking/11

Pages 11 and 12 are well worth reading if this subject (G-sync) interests you at all.

 

[drunkenmaster]

You can't patent a name but you can trademark it, Apple go after anyone who calls anything ixxxxxx, whatever. Even companies or products called i-something WAY before Apple made an ipod they've gone after.

Nvidia can trademark(and will have) the brand name g-sync, beyond that, no, just, no. Stop the argument, the fundamental idea behind g-sync is so painfully basic it would be like suggesting Nvidia would patent or somehow own the refresh rate of 78.4hz, just because no one else has used it, or wants to use it, doesn't mean Nvidia can patent it and prevent other people doing it in the future.

I want the screen to update 60 times a second.
I want the screen to upgrade 120 times a second.
I want the screen to upgrade 4 times a second.
I want the screen to update a variable number of times a second.........g-sync.

No, Nvidia can't and won't patent that....that is what g-sync is, nothing more. As said it's one of these laughably stupid situations where it could have been available on lcd's pretty much since launch of the first LCD, just no one did it.

Can Nvidia stop AMD sending out a new frame at variable times, well they can't now. Do you really think they can prevent a monitor from waiting till the buffer is filled before updating the screen..... because that is G-sync, the fundamental idea on the monitor side with absolutely no change on the gpu side EXCEPT using a message to tell the screen it wants to be in that mode.

The amount of progress that doesn't occur in technology maybe more than most industries because these idiots can't get together to decide things and push things forwards.