Nvidia to support Freesync?

[humbug]

Nvidia aren't doing this as a kind gesture to all us gamers, they're doing it because they are scared of what AMD has coming on Wednesday and want to reclaim some mindshare.

Look how long they have resisted this move despite all the reasons against and now suddenly they are going to support it?

There is definitely more to this than Jensen is saying publicly imo.

Along with some pretty fabulous Ryzen 3000 rumours that should have Intel sweating buckets there is also a 7nm Navi rumour, apparently RTX 2070 levels of performance for around $250 to $300.

 

[tommybhoy]

Some AMD users seem to be in denial about it no affecting AMD. But it will. Saying that though, it might eventually affect Nvidia also, as when AMD release something more competitive people will not feel stuck with G-Sync and will be able to change over to an AMD card. I know I would, so it might balance out potentially.

**** AMD & NV and anyone salty over access, consumers are the winners, GPU vendors shouldn't ever had any control of monitor tec in the first place!

Do love my VRR though thanks NV+AMD.

Where are the people that said this would never happen.....

It's bad news

 

[humbug]

Long time no see, Tommy

When are these drivers out?

 

[TNA]

GPU vendors shouldn't ever had any control of monitor tec in the first place!

Yep. Open standards ftw!

I don't have the GPU power for 4K and i don't plan on getting anything powerful enough to run high refresh-rate 4K for a few years, when they are priced reasonably, 1440P is a good place for the 1070.

Tho i am tempted by HDR, when more games do it then i'll look again at it.

Fair enough, can't disagree with that

I feel ready already with my Titan XP (for my needs) and by the time I get one of those TVs in about a year, 7nm will be here.

 

[JediFragger]

Along with some pretty fabulous Ryzen 3000 rumours that should have Intel sweating buckets there is also a 7nm Navi rumour, apparently RTX 2070 levels of performance for around $250 to $300.

I think Navi is gonna kick all kinds of ass in the mid-range soon

15th for drivers.

 

[humbug]

I think Navi is gonna kick all kinds of ass in the mid-range soon

15th for drivers.

With Ryzen 2000 2018 has been AMD's year in CPU's, Ryzen 3000 looks like it will kick Intel hard while they are down, very hard.

Let us hope AMD can do to nVidia this year what they did to Intel last year.

thx for the drivers info.

 

[JediFragger]

Ryzen 3000 looks like it will kick Intel hard while they are down, very hard.

I'm hoping gaming performance gets a really good kick, because switching to a 8600k@5Ghz from a 2600x system gave me a BIG boost.

 

[humbug]

I'm hoping gaming performance gets a really good kick, because switching to a 8600k@5Ghz from a 2600x system gave me a BIG boost.

Yeah, look at this, from a 4.6Ghz 4690K to a 3.85Ghz first gen 6 core Ryzen, 2.5x the performance, unbelievable....

33 FPS

85 FPS...

 

[JediFragger]

Yeah, look at this, from a 4.6Ghz 4690K to a 3.85Ghz first gen 6 core Ryzen, 2.5x the performance, unbelievable....

Agreed, and hopefully the new chips will kick as much ass as that! We await the benchies

 

[ltron]

This is amazing news, I can't believe it and hopefully it will lead to better high end Freesync monitors now Nvidia are supporting it. I still want to switch to an AMD GPU though due to Nvidia's price gouging, GPP etc. actions over the last few years. I hope AMD will have a truly great high end GPU for me to buy this year.

 

[opethdisciple]

Hmm...

How are Nvidia going to differentiate FreeSync from Gsync now?

 

[ltron]

Hmm...

How are Nvidia going to differentiate FreeSync from Gsync now?

With the price .

 

[Rroff]

Hmm...

How are Nvidia going to differentiate FreeSync from Gsync now?

G-Sync still (when MS aren't screwing up WDDM, etc.) has better support/features for Windowed/Borderless mode games and better low framerate handling and always will unless extra hardware is added to Adaptive Sync monitors.

EDIT: On another note though something I need to test - I'm wondering if G-Sync has problems with colour values outside of limited range (16-235) maybe an oversight but I've noticed some problems with transitions/shimmering at the extremes of the colour range that don't seem to be there on FS.

 

[RavenXXX2]

 

[humbug]

Yeah... Que the mems....

 

[Rroff]

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I don't think AMD really has much high ground on this one really - no one was interested in pushing adaptive sync tech until nVidia released G-Sync - then suddenly everyone wants on the bandwagon.

 

[humbug]

I don't think AMD really has much high ground on this one really - no one was interested in pushing adaptive sync tech until nVidia released G-Sync - then suddenly everyone wants on the bandwagon.

No, but they did take nVidia's idea whose implementation was over-complex, expensive and as it turned out unsustainable AMD made it so that "It Just Works" and for every price point.

 

[Silent_Scone]

I don't think AMD really has much high ground on this one really - no one was interested in pushing adaptive sync tech until nVidia released G-Sync - then suddenly everyone wants on the bandwagon.

Yeah, if you're being discerning it was NVIDIA that endorsed the technology first. Heck, I've had my Swift for what seems like forever.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Hmm...

How are Nvidia going to differentiate FreeSync from Gsync now?

By calling it FreeSync??

 

[Rroff]

Yeah, if you're being discerning it was NVIDIA that endorsed the technology first. Heck, I've had my Swift for what seems like forever.

To be fair from what I understand (though it is from piecing together 3rd hand information from conference and emails) the resistance with VESA was from industries that use the tech professionally i.e. air traffic control displays which used a form of it (as in eDP) years before G-Sync came out and probably were looking to protect their market and a good bit of why nVidia went away and made G-Sync. But still.