Is "Freesync" dead?

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Surprised no one has mentioned this...

Nvidia are market leaders in GPU's in fact they own around 70% of the market, as opposed to AMD at 30%.

So it makes sense for the monitor manufacturers to label them as Nvidia certified as opposed to AMD certified. This way they appeal to a much larger audience, thus helping them increase sales..

Good point

 

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Does the 8600K come with a heatsink? I don't think it does? The 3600x and 3700x do. It's quite a good one as well. A very quick google shows me that the 8600K plus heatsink is more expensive than the 3600X which already includes a good one. In fact the 8600X plus a heatsink is around the same price as a 3700X with an included heatsink. So if spending the same amount then those CPU's are direct competitors. They appear to be on a par for single threaded performance and the 3700x has two more cores than an 8600K, so will be much faster in multi threaded applications. I've not looked at motherboard and RAM cost but no doubt we could find them at similar prices on each platform.

So it looks to me that the 8600K is no faster than a 3700x in single core. It is 30% slower in multi core. It costs the same when a cooler is taken into account and is on an end of life socket, but the next gen of Ryzen is very likely to run on the same motherboard you'd buy today for a 3700x.

I'm not an AMD fanboy. In fact I've not owned an AMD CPU since the Athlon 64. But my next CPU will certainly be Ryzen.

As an 8700k owner, there is no way I'd buy it now if I was looking for a new CPU. Just get the 3700x

 

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The reason I had my PS4Pro in it's box since got the Xbone X to pair it with the 55KS7000. And PS5 going to be the first PS I won't buy after 25 years, if it doesn't have Freesync support.

yeah cause 40-120hz sync is awesome on 30fps games lmao

current consoles don't need frame syncing until they are running games 60fps+

 

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I don't need to own one, digital foundry did that for me and as little as two months ago were saying that freesync is of little use in most games on the console.