FreeSync coming next month! (?)

Gerard · 16 Oct 2014 at 19:15

Silent_Scone said:
Because having a market segment all to yourself for an entire year is a wash? You've used that phrase a lot recently Orangey. I'm assuming you're just throwing it around at the moment because you're not making much sense .

Brilliant stuff!

A whole market segment for a year assuming you wanted a 1080p screen and that specific model of monitor. And either wanted to diy it yourself or get one from the few etailers that sold it after they had done the diy upgrade and charged you the extra. Its only very lately that some kind of choice on res and monitor type has been available.

Silent_Scone · 16 Oct 2014 at 19:32

Gerard said:
A whole market segment for a year assuming you wanted a 1080p screen and that specific model of monitor. And either wanted to diy it yourself or get one from the few etailers that sold it after they had done the diy upgrade and charged you the extra. Its only very lately that some kind of choice on res and monitor type has been available.

Well we all know there isn't any pleasing some people. Just don't understand the irony it's the same people happy to praise something for months that has yet to materialise.

Gerard · 16 Oct 2014 at 19:37

Silent_Scone said:
Well we all know there isn't any pleasing some people. Just don't understand the irony it's the same people happy to praise something for months that has yet to materialise.

Maybe so but lets not exaggerate as to what was available for the majority of that time. Reminds me of Henry Ford saying "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black".

Should be interesting to see what materialises in any case.

Orangey · 16 Oct 2014 at 19:40

Silent_Scone said:
Because having a market segment all to yourself for an entire year is a wash? You've used that phrase a lot recently Orangey. I'm assuming you're just throwing it around at the moment because you're not making much sense .

Brilliant stuff!

Everyone needs a catchphrase.

LtMatt · 16 Oct 2014 at 19:49

How's this for a catchphrase? 'FreeSyncs gonna be awesome'.

Silent_Scone · 16 Oct 2014 at 19:54

If it supports eyefinity from the off that'll be a seller

systemerror · 16 Oct 2014 at 20:20

Well me for one who is a Nvidia only user will delighted when free sync comes as it might bring the gsync monitors down in price as I have yet to buy mine. Since my PC is in pieces in boxes lying on my desk.

shankly1985 · 16 Oct 2014 at 20:49

Also seems if I remember rightly nvidia will support Freesync. So is that them already submitted defeat?

Deceptor · 16 Oct 2014 at 20:52

shankly1985 said:
Also seems if I remember rightly nvidia will support Freesync. So is that them already submitted defeat?

There was a rumour but if I recall correctly it was shot down during a PCper interview.

r7slayer · 16 Oct 2014 at 20:54

In theory Nvidia could support Freesync but lets be honest... They wont, its free lol. Dosn't make them money so bad business for them.

Deceptor · 16 Oct 2014 at 20:57

r7slayer said:
In theory Nvidia could support Freesync but lets be honest... They wont, its free lol. Dosn't make them money so bad business for them.

There's that, then there's the fact the g-sync module is programmable so could be made to do other things. The optimistic side of me says they've got plans - but we'll see I guess!

Ian Evey · 16 Oct 2014 at 20:57

Yeah and amd wont make anything from nearlyfreesync, they are doing it for the love of their customers

llamadal · 16 Oct 2014 at 20:58

shankly1985 said:
Also seems if I remember rightly nvidia will support Freesync. So is that them already submitted defeat?

Maybe they want to help out the struggling hipsters that are amd

shankly1985 · 16 Oct 2014 at 21:03

llamadal said:
Maybe they want to help out the struggling hipsters that are amd

Struggling? How, let me guess because they not released another GPU line up this year? No need to the 290/x is holding up very well.

Think we're all ready for 20nm now.

GoogalyMoogaly · 16 Oct 2014 at 21:05

AMDMatt said:
How's this for a catchphrase? 'FreeSyncs gonna be awesome'.

Is it gonna be as awesome as GSync is?

It'll be interesting to see if the price (to the end user) is affected because of the inclusion of this feature though.

shankly1985 · 16 Oct 2014 at 21:08

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Is it gonna be as awesome as GSync is?

It'll be interesting to see if the price (to the end user) is affected because of the inclusion of this feature though.

They no reason why it couldn't be better. Freesync supports wider refresh rate range and also less over head. What this means to us we after wait and see. Csgo should be one the first games to be tested though. Gsync is very bad on this game, going by blurbusters.

Disco_P · 16 Oct 2014 at 21:34

Since there are lot of diehard AMD fans who will never defect to Nvidia

Why is this a thing. What do people gain from being so close minded?

triss · 16 Oct 2014 at 22:20

shankly1985 said:
They no reason why it couldn't be better. Freesync supports wider refresh rate range and also less over head. What this means to us we after wait and see. Csgo should be one the first games to be tested though. Gsync is very bad on this game, going by blurbusters.

Asking a silly question how will it Cover a wider range of Refresh? Pretty sure in the Gsync video on one of the threads here Nvidia stated Gsync supports the same rates as the monitor its on
Will freesync support wider range than the monitor?

shankly1985 · 16 Oct 2014 at 23:37

triss said:
Asking a silly question how will it Cover a wider range of Refresh? Pretty sure in the Gsync video on one of the threads here Nvidia stated Gsync supports the same rates as the monitor its on
Will freesync support wider range than the monitor?

See the FreeSync FAQ and you'll see

Martini1991 · 16 Oct 2014 at 23:45

triss said:
Asking a silly question how will it Cover a wider range of Refresh? Pretty sure in the Gsync video on one of the threads here Nvidia stated Gsync supports the same rates as the monitor its on
Will freesync support wider range than the monitor?

Freesync has a more extensive list of ranges supported.