G-Sync or Freesync ?

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OK so I'm looking to get either a Freesync Monitor or G-Sync, Although I'm leaning more towards G-Sync...not sure if monitor size makes any difference here though ..so either 24" or 27" ?...at the moment I'm running two 27" non G-Sync 144Hz Monitors.
 
you have a 980 in your sig, if this is the system, that you are planning to use the monitors on, then you will see no benefit of a freesync monitor. so you would want to choose gsnyc.

however if you planning on swapping to an AMD card, then you want a freesync monitors.
hopefully adaptive sync becomes a standard sometime soon and we will loose all of this vendor tie in nonsense...
 
With g-sync you need a monitor will a special chip so you'll pay more for a g-sync monitor compared to a freesync one.

Free sync is an open protocol so monitor manufacturers can it include it at no cost and so you will also pay less.

I think going forward freesync will become the standard due to not requiring any additional hardware, but right now nvidia have a big market share so there are lots of options for g-sync.

As you have a 980 (nvidia) you'll need a g-sync monitor.
 
980 is better sure but you have to consider your budget. Freesync is fine and cheaper and if your gaming at 1080p both cards will smash any game. So get whatever you can afford. Us PC elitist tend to get to tied up with numbers and forget about our wallets.

Both technologies will sync the refresh rate of the monitor to the output of the GPU so everything looks smoother etc.
 
The 290x and 980 are neck in neck for performance, one wins some by a small margin the other wins some by a small margin. By the looks of things the 290x is going to be a bit better for the future dx12/async titles. So it comes down to how much you prefer a quieter and cooler running GPU (980 being the better one there) and which brand you prefer.

And the only difference between g and free sync is the range at which they work, which is universally better with gsync

There is no difference between monitor sizes for sync techs.

Iirc did you not get 2 benq 27" freesync screens?

henson0115 said:
hopefully adaptive sync becomes a standard sometime soon and we will loose all of this vendor tie in nonsense...
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It is already a standard, it is part of display port 1.3, it won't be going anywhere. All that is needed is the the built in GPU hardware for the support and for it to be enabled via drivers, hopefully nvidia will have this sorted for pascal but I doubt it....
 
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llamadal said:
Gsync is better.
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better in what way? have you tried both or are you basing this on simply using gsync alone and specs? as the specs for freesync are higher.. even if some of the monitor manufacturers have a limited range.

Nexus18 said:
It is already a standard, it is part of display port 1.3, it won't be going anywhere. All that is needed is the the built in GPU hardware for the support and for it to be enabled via drivers, hopefully nvidia will have this sorted for pascal but I doubt it....
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you are of course correct, what i actually meant was the sooner this happens the better. at present there are no DP 1.3 cards or monitors on the market :)
 
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henson0115 said:
better in what way? have you tried both or are you basing this on simply using gsync alone and specs? as the specs for freesync are higher..
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G-Sync is better in respect that:

-Wider range of frequencies generally (actually) supported
-Better low or rapidly changing framerate behaviour (AMD are working on this)
-Support for games in Window mode and/or games that use non-exclusive fullscreen modes (AMD working on this/Windows 10 will change how some of this works).
-Motion clarity boost with improved overdrive response (not ULMB) - not sure what the actual state of this is - nVidia talked about it but I've not seen any further details.

There are some potential negatives compared to FreeSync with regards to input latency - though largely this comes down to user configuration error and FreeSync isn't without its failings in that department either (PS Linus's testing methodology is flawed his results aren't representative of the actual latencies when its correctly configured).
 
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Rroff said:
G-Sync is better in respect that:

-Wider range of frequencies generally (actually) supported
-Better low or rapidly changing framerate behaviour (AMD are working on this)
-Support for games in Window mode and/or games that use non-exclusive fullscreen modes (AMD working on this/Windows 10 will change how some of this works).
-Motion clarity boost with improved overdrive response (not ULMB) - not sure what the actual state of this is - nVidia talked about it but I've not seen any further details.

There are some potential negatives compared to FreeSync with regards to input latency - though largely this comes down to user configuration error and FreeSync isn't without its failings in that department either.
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i agree that gsnc is better in regards to windowed mode - hopefully this gets added down the line.
In regards to the supported range, gsync is capable of refresh rates that range from 30Hz to 144Hz while the FreeSync spec is capable of refresh rates that range from 9Hz to 240Hz.
i have a freesync monitor that does 30hz to 144hz, so gsync is not better, but the same at this point in time.

edit: spelling
 
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Depends how you look at it - G-SYNC tends to better utilise the range of frequencies it can work at in terms of what is available to the consumer as things stand right now - there are a lot more G-SYNC monitors that can utilise a wider range of frequencies than there are FreeSync ones that can (atleast when I last looked at it).

EDIT: In terms of purely technical capabilities they can't really be directly compared on refresh range as they are implemented in a little different ways with both having positives and negatives on purely technical merit.
 
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9097/the-amd-freesync-review

All you need to know, TLDR version:

It took a while to get here, but if the proof is in the eating of the pudding, FreeSync tastes just as good as G-SYNC when it comes to adaptive refresh rates. Within the supported refresh rate range, I found nothing to complain about
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That article is fairly old too so a few things have changed with freesync:

- the "ghosting" issue they referred too was a monitor and driver issue, when freesync was enabled, the response time overdrive setting was disabled, it has been fixed
- crossfire works with freesync now
- AMD included low frame rate control compensation with the crimson drivers:

http://anandtech.com/show/9811/amd-crimson-driver-overview/3
 
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Well I was thinking of this one for a 27" Freesync

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/aoc-...descreen-led-monitor-black-red-mo-033-ao.html
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i have the 24" version, its actually a decent monitor if you can ignore the issues:
- requires a driver from AOC to achieve 30-144hz freesync range (27" version is the same) check out the below thread for the driver from PCM2.
- stock colours are not great, if you go into the following thread:https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18689699&page=21 (not sure if the 27" is the same)
PCM2 kindly provided a profile for the gamma which make the colours look better
- display corruption in some games with freesync enabled, some people feel that this issue is due to the display itself, however does not happen with freesync disabled. might get fixed but who knows. this can be resolved each time it happens by alt tabbing a few times in game. (again not sure if the 27" is the same).
 
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Threepwood said:
Sell 980, use 290x and buy an AOC 1080p 24" 144Hz Freesync monitor.
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i sort of agree with this as you will get more for the 980 than you will the 290x,
when i wanted a acer 34 i thought long and hard as to go for gsync or freesync and in the end i sold my 980 sli and bought a fury and the rest of the change went towards the xr34 that was aboput £200 cheaper than the x34 so the outlay was not to bad
 
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