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FreeSync monitors hit mass production, coming in Jan-Feb

drunkenmaster said:
Basically, nope, go on any forum and ask if sli mobo's had to pay to support SLI, if there are hacked drivers to get around Nvidia's blacklisting of products where SLI works but Nvidia drivers lock out that specific mobo because they haven't paid. Where 3d vision, g-sync, sli certification on psu's.

These are VERY widely known facts and have been for a decade plus. It's like telling me to prove Intel makes x86 cpu's. Your ignorance to it doesn't make it my burden to prove it to you.

But I must be a tin pot when 90% of the nvidia guys on this forum insisted Nvidia had patented variable refresh rate and how much abuse I got when I'd explain why not only is that not true but it would be entirely laughable.
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a more concise version of that post would be "no, unfortunately I have no evidence to back up my baseless claims beyond pure conjecture".

No need to thank me. :)
 
lol the whole argument is stupid
and so is coming on a freesync thread claiming people should be thanking gsync and how wonderful NVidia is, unless you just looking for a fight to pass the time ofcourse :)

i think that's only interesting to you!
selfish! :p
 
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SLI is an actual technology developed and licensed by NVidia, so is GSync, the technology used by Freesync (v-blank) already existed, AMD can't just suddenly put a new name on it. V-blank is now part of the DP spec which enables AMD to run their hackjob adaptive sync technology (Freesync), as far as monitor manufacturers are concerned Freesync doesn't exist.
 
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I skipped to the end of this dumb thread to say this:

Stop with the "freesync != free" strawman crap. Because a few people thought it might be a user-performed flash on certain monitors, that doesn't diminish the fact that it is unencumbered by NV's tax, which is what it always meant.
 
layte said:
All that text completely devoid of any worthwhile content. That takes some effort. Pro tip chuckles. Adaptive Sync had been around for a while and was available in physical products. Yet absolutely nobody was talking about bringing it to standalone displays as something to improve gaming until an idea put old hard cash and resources on the table. Even VESA's own documentation has no pre Gsync references to the tech beyond eDP for power saving.

So instead of spectacularly missing the point as usual and going off on yet another tedious and misinformed anti Nvidia rant you should probably do some research and keep the content light walls of text at bay unless you have something valid to add. They are a pain to scroll past on my phone.
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Yep. He's right DM.
EDP had this standard for quite awhile I'm afraid. But you knew that already.
The technology was already there, hence why it didn't take long from AMD submition for VESA to comply with it.

All fairly straight forward. No need for the mass waffle
 
mmj_uk said:
SLI is an actual technology developed and licensed by NVidia
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3DFX invented it. "wah wah wahh no they didn't NV's is DIFFERENT!!11" Same idea. Of course if we were talking AMD you would say they copied, ripped off, bodgejob'd it etc etc

the technology used by Freesync (v-blank) already existed, AMD can't just suddenly put a new name on it. V-blank is now part of the DP spec which enables AMD to run their hackjob adaptive sync technology (Freesync), as far as monitor manufacturers are concerned Freesync doesn't exist.
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Pray tell, what makes it a "hackjob" compared to gsync? Oh that's right you don't know what you're talking about and just mindlessly smashing AMD as usual.
 
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Mei said:
lol the whole argument is stupid
and so is coming on a freesync thread claiming people should be thanking gsync and how wonderful NVidia is, unless you just looking for a fight to pass the time ofcourse :)

i think that's only interesting to you!
selfish! :p
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Who are you responding to there? I never said anything of the sort. I just pointed out that Nvidia kick started and brought the technology to the public eye, whereas before it was languishing as a laptop power saving feature. Unfortunately some are that biased they cannot accept anything Nvidia do as a positive. I also said Nvidia should now adopt AS as it is a vendor neutral standard. This would benefit everyone.
 
drunkenmaster said:
AMD can not and would not have come up with adaptive sync in a few months on their own, it would take years of talking with many monitor companies about if they would support it, how they'd do it, how AMD would do it, compromise, getting agreement then making it work then submitting it then certification of it meaning testing amongst various companies THEN products go into production.
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That's because they didn't come up with it, they just took an open idea that was going to end up part of the spec sooner or later and shouted about it causing VESA to rush implement it.
 
I think this is one of those (admittedly rare) occasions where AMD have got it right. Presuming the tech works as advertised of course.

In order for mass adoption across the industry, it really needs to be a standard that can be implemented for minimal cost rather than a technology that has to be licensed and marketed to a niche market.
 
Bonjour said:
I think this is one of those (admittedly rare) occasions where AMD have got it right. Presuming the tech works as advertised of course.

In order for mass adoption across the industry, it really needs to be a standard that can be implemented for minimal cost rather than a technology that has to be licensed and marketed to a niche market.
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If you're into playing at 40-60hz with vsync for everything else, then yeah its great :p:D
 
LambChop said:
If you're into playing at 40-60hz with vsync for everything else, then yeah its great :p:D
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Yer, I am the same as this and whilst the 1080P is great at 40-144hz, the other 2 would leave me disappointed. Still early days and nVidia have had over a year on G-Sync, so I expect that later releases will be better.

A 20fps window is pretty meh!
 
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If you're into playing at 40-60hz with vsync for everything else, then yeah its great :p:D
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If that turns out to be the case then I agree, that is fairly limited.

I'd still rather see broader adoption of adaptive sync technology than we're likely to see with G-Sync as it stands.
 
You would frame cap 1fps under the max refresh rate, you would not buy a 60hz max screen to play above 60fps when there are 120 and 144 versions available.
 
mmj_uk said:
SLI is an actual technology developed and licensed by NVidia, so is GSync, the technology used by Freesync (v-blank) already existed, AMD can't just suddenly put a new name on it. V-blank is now part of the DP spec which enables AMD to run their hackjob adaptive sync technology (Freesync), as far as monitor manufacturers are concerned Freesync doesn't exist.
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Whoa, the fanboy is strong.
 
I think the 40-60hz thing is being blown a little out of proportion, the way I read it is that specific panel (was it an LG?) Is limited as its refresh range only go's as low/high as 40/60hz, not that all async 60hz panels will be stuck in those ranges, as we know most displays on the market will do 30-60hz.

This is the part where potential freesync customers need to do their homework before making a purchase and where mileage may vary from one person's freesync experience to the next.
 
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