G-Sync is a con?

humbug · 2 Feb 2015 at 17:20

Gregster said:
You are special T and I unequivocally believe everything that you say...

I didn't know he worked for Nvidia.

Gregster · 2 Feb 2015 at 17:28

humbug said:
I didn't know he worked for Nvidia.

Keep shilling and you will finally get a job. With AMD

setter · 2 Feb 2015 at 17:36

Until I see this working on a desktop monitor I'm gonna remain very sceptical tbh.

humbug · 2 Feb 2015 at 18:07

Gregster said:
Keep shilling and you will finally get a job. With AMD

Nice try Greg.

Tonester0011 · 2 Feb 2015 at 18:18

We only want the best for you Bug, one day you might wear red like you always wanted

varkanoid · 2 Feb 2015 at 18:19

ubersonic said:
If you cast your minds back, when AMD first demonstrated Adaptive Sync running on laptops, Nvidia said at the time that Adaptive Sync was much easier to do with laptops than desktop displays due to their design, that's probably why the upcoming G-Sync laptops don't use a module and current laptops with compatible GPU's are mostly compatible.

The module is still required for desktop systems.

You are correct its because its not Gsync it is Adaptive Sync. This has also been discussed in another thread where people were claiming gsync module is a con.
The Alpha drivers that were leaked (not modded drivers) by Asus show gsync can be enabled and does pop up a gsync detect but its actually adaptive sync they just use the gsync option (due to them being alpha drivers) but the underlying tech is AS.

Certain people are taking this and trying to make out again that the gsync module does nothing.

Martini1991 · 2 Feb 2015 at 18:27

Sounds like Nvidia supporting a standard and getting flack for it, because they've called it Gsync (Hilariously people said such names as Gsync 2.0 etc for Nvidia support of AS)

Tonester0011 · 2 Feb 2015 at 18:45

Gregster said:
You are special T and I unequivocally believe everything that you say... Well I believe you more so with the amount of GPUs that you have had in the time I have known ya.

humbug · 2 Feb 2015 at 18:58

Martini1991 said:
Sounds like Nvidia supporting a standard and getting flack for it, because they've called it Gsync (Hilariously people said such names as Gsync 2.0 etc for Nvidia support of AS)

The Question is will they do away with the piggy in the middle module on desktop's now.

Gregster · 2 Feb 2015 at 19:05

humbug said:
The Question is will they do away with the piggy in the middle module on desktop's now.

Of course they won't, as all the current desktop GPUs need the module to work.

Kaapstad · 2 Feb 2015 at 19:22

humbug said:
Because you can't run Nvidia Drivers on AMD GPU's ^^^^

My previous post was a joke on many levels, unfortunately you did not get past the first.

Have a think about it again.

Martini1991 · 2 Feb 2015 at 19:24

humbug said:
The Question is will they do away with the piggy in the middle module on desktop's now.

Derp.

melmac · 2 Feb 2015 at 19:41

humbug said:
The Question is will they do away with the piggy in the middle module on desktop's now.

They can't, They need the module for their desktop parts.

bru · 2 Feb 2015 at 19:43

thesmokingman said:
Now, how anyone gets from that to Nvidia suing anyone is a joke. They didn't invent anything, they merely repackaged what was already there

Sounds remarkably just like Apple and they seem to have done ok in court.

The whole point is mute, as I never said Nvidia were taking anyone to court, I just said that they could if it turns out that Adaptive sync is exactly the same as Gsync. Regardless of Adaptive sync being a standard, Gsync was here first.

The EDP ( embedded display port) and PSR (panel self refresh) technologies were only used for power saving, allowing GPU's to enter a power saving states between frame updates and not for flicker free gaming like Gsync is.

Final8y · 2 Feb 2015 at 19:50

Gregster said:
Right guys, the reason that was debunked was G-Sync needs to be in Full screen mode to work and not windowed mode (as shown in the video). I do wish people would listen when told about these things.

I know already, i knew about it all before it was even posted here.

bru · 2 Feb 2015 at 19:53

humbug said:
It's also not Nvidia's technology, they invented nothing new, it's existing technology.

humbug said:
Do you see any deviance that Nvidia invented the type of scalers that have been used in Laptop's (by all Vendors) for years if not decades?

Ok so if you were to invent a new aeroplane you couldn't patent it due to the fact that wings were invented a long time ago.
Nvidia have taken some existing technology and used it for something new, of course they will have patented it.

andybird123 · 2 Feb 2015 at 20:07

humbug said:
Thats PCper's take on it, mine is different, I think Nvidia had a choice, i think Nvidia could have made the same Choice AMD have, and have chosen not to, instead chosen a rout that bags them more revenue at the expense of us and Screen Vendors.

It's also not Nvidia's technology, they invented nothing new, it's existing technology.

You do know that it is actually illegal for a company to not run itself for the benefit ofnthe shareholders, it is actually a legal requirement that a company tries to make a profit

If AMD gives stuff away for free it is because they didnt think they could profit from trying to charge for it

Harlequin · 2 Feb 2015 at 20:08

display port monitors have been available for years - the Samsung S27B971D for example has been released and replaced since 2011!

andybird123 · 2 Feb 2015 at 20:18

Harlequin said:
display port monitors have been available for years - the Samsung S27B971D for example has been released and replaced since 2011!

So?
eDP is only in laptops, DP1.2a was only created in 2014 and no monitors officially support it yet, a monitor from 2011 definitely wont support variable refresh

MOOGLEYS · 2 Feb 2015 at 20:38

Whether it's G-Sync or Freesync or any other Sync it runs lovely on my laptop and tbh has been the best thing I have done since using SSD's for the first time. Games that were a mess are now nice and smooth. Even Watchdogs is fairly smooth now.......