G-SYNC vs FreeSync price.

They aren't the same spec monitor.

And as recently tested by to shareware, a majority of games prefer gsync and would be willing to pay $100-200 extra for it. Monitor manufacturers can sell the gsync as a premium product supported by a premium brand, much like Apple does. Ergo, you pays your money's and you gets your choices.
 
IPS is generally more expensive than TN, too.

GSync is £100-150 more than FreeSync because I believe NVidia charges for the use of their module, however FreeSync (VESA Adaptive Sync?) is free to implement.
 
opethdisciple said:
True. But other than that they look like they have similar 'specs'.

I.e Resolution, Contrast Ratio and both by Acer.
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Gsync adds some, IPS adds the rest, IPS monitors are generally more expensive and that TN is on a really low sale price, probably because freesync screens aren't selling all that well as no one is buying AMD GPU's either
 
D.P. said:
They aren't the same spec monitor.

And as recently tested by to shareware, a majority of games prefer gsync and would be willing to pay $100-200 extra for it. Monitor manufacturers can sell the gsync as a premium product supported by a premium brand, much like Apple does. Ergo, you pays your money's and you gets your choices.
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I knew AI was gtting good in games, but now they have a personal preference and the abaility to spend money, well I never :p
 
NVidia's utter domination of the GPU market means they can charge that £100-150 G-Sync premium, it's terrible for us as consumers because if there was competition in the discrete graphics card market, I can imagine the GSync premium would have dropped considerably.
 
Joe! said:
NVidia's utter domination of the GPU market means they can charge that £100-150 G-Sync premium, it's terrible for us as consumers because if there was competition in the discrete graphics card market, I can imagine the GSync premium would have dropped considerably.
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Sadly the Nvidia lovers on here will have you believe prices will not be be high even if there was only Nvidia making gpu's. We can clearly see that they will keep prices high if AMD dies. Nvidia wants their fanboys to pay high prices hence why they won't implement a free VESA standard like Adaptive sync.

Very bad for the consumers if AMD exits the market.
 
The number of Nvidia to AMD graphic card users is probably 3:1 or 4:1 even, so it has provided Nvidia with the option to milk extra money to its user base.

I'm fine with Nvidia requiring putting an extra module to make Gsync works, but when they charge money from monitor manufacturers for a profit instead of just cost price, it would mean whatever extra the manufacturers need to pay to buy the module from Nvidia the cost will be pass onto the consumer and reflected on the retail prices.

It's kinda like in how Intel, AMD (and even Nvidia back when they still make chipset for motherboards) make money on selling chipsets to motherboard manufacturers.
 
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