I have a 980ti and an X34, it's quite an investment so it'd take something pretty special for me to switch. If AMD released a Titan XP killer at £500 then yes, I probably would. But that won't happen, the corporate world just doesn't work like that. If AMD produce a high-end competitive card, they're going to charge high-end competitive prices. Titan XP is ludicrous at £1100, the only short term realistic upgrade path for me is 1080ti.
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Gsync Owners - Would you go AMD?
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prepare for disappointment
Reading early reports that Vega may provide better performance than a 1080 or possibly even the Titan P at a price point of maybe £500, and this is a question specifically relating to people with high end Gsync monitors... would you make the switch?
I've avoided the new Nvidia Pascal cards this year due to the paltry performance increase over the 980ti for what... £700-1100? If AMD brought out a card that could see a performance gain of 50% over a 980ti for around £500-600 then I'd like to think I could reward them with a purchase.
But my beloved Gsync...
I suppose I could disable Gsync in NCP and see how I felt about Vsync options, but would you think it worth considering or do you think that after spending £900 on a X34A then it's Nvidia or nothing?
so let me get this straight. I spent say £679 on a 1080, £700 on a G Sync monitor, lets call it £1400. They work fine in harmony. Why would I spend another £500 on an AMD card that may be faster but doesnt "work" with my monitor. Are you NUTS ? Do you think I`m made of money!
and thats a big I paid those prices in the first place to sit out the GPU merry-go-round for a few years. Dont care if Vega is 50% faster I dont need it.
I think you should have made it clear your question is aimed at high end gsync users who also dont have a 1xxx/new Pascal
so let me get this straight. I spent say £679 on a 1080, £700 on a G Sync monitor, lets call it £1400. They work fine in harmony. Why would I spend another £500 on an AMD card that may be faster but doesnt "work" with my monitor. Are you NUTS ? Do you think I`m made of money!
I paid those prices in the first place to sit out the GPU merry-go-round for a few years. Dont care if Vega is 50% faster I dont need it.
I think you should have made it clear your question is aimed at high end gsync users who also dont have a 1xxx/new Pascal
+1 ... I'm in exactly the same boat I've just got mine and couldn't be happier it's an absolute joy to play
I'll be happy for quite a few years
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In a word no. Loosing gysnc is not an option for me, its the best tech I have used in years.
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I think you should have made it clear your question is aimed at high end gsync users who also dont have a 1xxx/new Pascal
The part where I said I have avoided Pascal, and the part where I said "If AMD brought out a card that could see a performance gain of 50% over a 980ti for around £500-600" and the bit where I mentioned "and this is a question specifically relating to people with high end Gsync monitors"... That made you think "low end Gsync with a 10 series card"?
Of course I wouldn't switch for an AMD card with similar performance to my current card, regardless of what price that card was. I would be losing money, standing still with frame rates and losing VRR performance.
The question is clear in my OP... Would you give up Gsync for a card that offered 50% performance uplift over your current card, at a price point of approximately £500.
True, this why I would go freesync. No additional cost
Wish nvidia would drop g-sync and support freesync already. I want to be able to buy an Nvidia or AMD card and have it work on the same monitor.
On the contrary I own a FreeSync monitor with an Nvidia GPU. Hell will freeze over before AMD cards can ever utilise G-sync, but FreeSync on the other hand isn't tied quite so tightly to AMD, Nvidia can add that functinality to their cards if they want. That's just the thing, they don't want to. They'd rather have us cough up an extra couple hundred quid for a G-sync monitor that might not even be worth it, since not all games on a rig will have screen-tearing. Heck, I've not noticed any myself since I upgraded to this high refresh rate monitor.
But that would probably kill G-sync if Nvidia supported FreeSync, then folks would just buy FreeSync monitors since they can choose either GPU vendor and not have to worry about incompatibility instead of being locked to Nvidia with G-Sync.
But that would probably kill G-sync if Nvidia supported FreeSync, then folks would just buy FreeSync monitors since they can choose either GPU vendor and not have to worry about incompatibility instead of being locked to Nvidia with G-Sync.
ive owned cards on both side of the fence
Currently own 3 Gsync Panels also.
I would only go AMD again When
Day 1 Game optimisations work (not always their)
Day 1 GFX Drivers are optimised. (gainning 30% perf in 3 months (rx480), means they could have done that day 1.
AMD have the Fastest Card on the market
Currently own 3 Gsync Panels also.
I would only go AMD again When
Day 1 Game optimisations work (not always their)
Day 1 GFX Drivers are optimised. (gainning 30% perf in 3 months (rx480), means they could have done that day 1.
AMD have the Fastest Card on the market
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Very happy with my Acer X34A G-Sync ultra-Wide. In all honesty I could care less about Vega. Happy where am at right now.
G-Sync has been massive for me and would find it hard to do without. Maybe if AMD had the performance and the free-sync tech was equivalent performance. Even then it would seem a bit pointless selling what I have for something similar. Something to think about a couple of generations from now.
I've got an X34 & an XR3501 stacked on my desk at the mo. Both are 21:9 but the XR3501 is a 35" non-adaptive sync monitor i.e. no Freesync or G-Sync with a 2560x1080 res.
The BenQ used to be on my sim setup but I moved it temporarily to my desk and it's kinda stuck there because I've been playing games on it recently such as Rise of Tomb Raider, Mad Max & MGSV and the lower res or lack of active syncing hasn't been bothering me maybe becasue the 980 Ti driving it is overkill for that resolution. That may change though when it goes back on the sim setup with one of my RX 480s which are in use for another purpose currently.
The BenQ used to be on my sim setup but I moved it temporarily to my desk and it's kinda stuck there because I've been playing games on it recently such as Rise of Tomb Raider, Mad Max & MGSV and the lower res or lack of active syncing hasn't been bothering me maybe becasue the 980 Ti driving it is overkill for that resolution. That may change though when it goes back on the sim setup with one of my RX 480s which are in use for another purpose currently.
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+1 for this but for me there is also another aspect to this.
I would only consider switching from Gsync to Freesync if I was quite disappointed with GSync.
In order to switch to this new tech ( new tech for me as I have never used it... ) it would need to offer me something I really want and GSync can't offer me.
Otherwise, if it ain't broken, don't fix it basically.
Why take a risk with something else if you're happy with what you have? Especially when mistakes can be quite costly ...
Very true.
But there will come a time where you will want to upgrade your monitor to HDR, OLED or 4K for example in the next year or two. The question then will be totalling up the price of a new GPU and new monitor which will really favour AMD if they are able to offer similar performance as Nvidia.
This is partly why I want Vega to do well also, as I will save money when getting a monitor in the future
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But, as highlighted in the article, VESA adaptive sync is capable of features GSync isn't. Given NVIDIA were involved in writing the spec & already support adaptive sync in their drivers they should just move on and support it already with their desktop cards too, though I realise they're happy to get extra cash for making users life a pain.
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Very true.
But there will come a time where you will want to upgrade your monitor to HDR, OLED or 4K for example in the next year or two. The question then will be totalling up the price of a new GPU and new monitor which will really favour AMD if they are able to offer similar performance as Nvidia.
This is partly why I want Vega to do well also, as I will save money when getting a monitor in the future
Not disputing this at all.
For me the time to upgrade again will come in roughly 3 years from now, assuming my current monitor lasts this long. Once I am ready to upgrade GPU and monitor I will look at everything again and decide which way to go.
But I sure as hell won't spend money now just for the sake of switching to AMD and Freesync.