But that is why there are reviews out there. I suppose for the layman G-Sync Premium might be a good thing as they do not have to do any research. But for the rest of us here it should not be an issue I would imagine.
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Nvidia to support Freesync?
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NVIDIA controls the pricing on certified panels, not the vendor.
I dunno any extra costs nVidia put on - obviously there is a lot more to it than the bill of materials - but the FPGA used in the non-HDR variant could be bought for $9/unit in bulk when I last checked. (Obviously there is also licensing costs involved as well, etc.). The HDR version is a very different story though.
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Dammit. Just noticed this and I have the 9. Sadly need a 10 series or later card mate, but if I can work out how to set freesync to 57-144hz on my MG279Q I'm happy to give it a go!
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You’ve been here long enough to know that “we” do not dictate the market, as enthusiasts make up a small percentage of the overall demographic.
The other benefit to this from NV’s perspective is that all those people who didn’t buy gsync monitors, perhaps due to already owning AMD, or simply not wanting to be locked in, now have one less barrier to buying an NV card.
It's **** easy with CRU. Off the top of my head, you have to run CRU, ensure your monitor is selected in the top-left drop-down box, then click the top "edit" button and change the vertical refresh rate range from 30-90 to 57-144. Confirm that, exit the program, then run the restart64 program.
There are two minor annoyances though: you have to repeat the CRU process every time you install/upgrade your GPU driver, and the monitor will show an erroneous "FreeSync disabled because you're at 144 Hz" message every time you switch your refresh rate to 144 Hz (which should only be when you boot/wake your PC).
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You're looking at what I said backwards.
Of course it will hurt AMD, Plenty of people that own an adaptive-sync monitor will buy an Nvidia gpu now that they support adaptive sync through the open standard. Why do you think Nvidia did it? They did it because it gives them access to a section of the gpu market that they didn't appeal to before.
Happy days! Fingers-crossed this works OK with my monitor. I guess the writing was on the wall when people started hacking this with AMD APUs / secondary cards and the DirectX frame copy method. I completed an Nvidia Advisory Panel survey back in October which focused on G-Sync and FreeSync, so this issue clearly had their attention. Once Intel CPUs are released which support Adaptive Sync this would be unstoppable. So it makes sense that they enable this now where possible.
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It will depend how well they support adaptive sync monitors. A monitor with a small working range will be just as bad with Nvidia gpu's as it is with AMD's. A monitor with a good working range and the potential for LFC support will offer a similar experience for Nvidia as long as they take advantage of it.
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Why will people not be stuck with G-sync?
If you have a g-sync monitor you won't be able to use it like an adaptive sync monitor with an AMD card, you'll only ever be able to use the monitors Gsync tech with an Nvidia card, so it won't eventually affect Nvidia negatively, only AMD.
Unless there's been another announcement I've missed?
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Where have you read this?
I can't find anything saying that if you have a g-sync monitor you can now use the g-sync tech with AMD cards.
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I can live with those annoyances, roll on the driver update. Thank you for the help! Like many, I had decided my next GPU purchase would "have" to be AMD to see the benefits, but this is an easy win for nvidia on the graphics card front. As for the monitor front....who knows....
Its not $10 or $20 he's just detracting from the real reason, the G-Sync Module is $150, add another $500 ontop of that if you want HDR. its well documented.
That's not what i said, the G-Sync screen locks them into nVidia, now they don't have to get a G-Sync screen to get G-Sync so they ain't locked into nVidia.
The number of people who buy their GPU's based on G-Sync vs Free-Sync is insignificant, now it simply doersn't matter at all.
Right my question is whether we can get Low framerate compensation at software level like AMD? We know that LFC is achieved via a hardware module on Gsync monitors whereas AMD have a software algorithm in the crimson driver which gives you a wider operating range for freesync. Without that whilst its a positive step, it's still limited compared to gsync for Nvidia card owners as gsync will have a wider operating range full spectrum of the monitors refresh rate.
I imagine the answer is for now they won't to avoid encroaching on existing Gsync monitors but might change if they phase out gsync.
I imagine the answer is for now they won't to avoid encroaching on existing Gsync monitors but might change if they phase out gsync.
The way i see it there isn't anything that nVidia can't do in software that AMD can, i mean what are we saying here?
