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Nvidia to support Freesync?

LambChop said:
The title is quite misleading. nVidia is not supporting freesync at all.
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Well they are supporting variable refresh rate on monitors with Adaptive Sync. FreeSync has just become a shorthand way of saying this. My monitor is marketed as having FreeSync with no mention of VRR or Adaptive Sync.
 
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IT Troll said:
Well they are supporting variable refresh rate on monitors with Adaptive Sync. FreeSync has just become a shorthand way of saying this. My monitor is marketed as having FreeSync with no mention of VRR or Adaptive Sync.
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Because that's AMD's implementation of it.

nVidia is not supporting AMD's implementation of it. The title is misleading and factually incorrect.
 
LambChop said:
Because that's AMD's implementation of it.

nVidia is not supporting AMD's implementation of it. The title is misleading and factually incorrect.
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adaptive sync is the same no matter who uses it regardless of what its called, its well adaptive sync. from a technical point of view nvidias mindshare is at work here. its all adaptive sync therefor the title is accurate.
not sure how many times i need to keep posting proof but il go find it for you if you like.
p.s there is technically no interpretation of it (other than the gsync module), for it to work it has to meet the vesa standard therfor all matching to adaptive sync...

"there are hundreds of monitor models available capable of variable refresh rates (VRR) using the VESA DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync protocol. However, the VRR gaming experience can vary widely.

To improve the experience for gamers, NVIDIA will test monitors. Those that pass our validation tests will be G-SYNC Compatible and enabled by default in the GeForce driver.

G-SYNC Compatible tests will identify monitors that deliver a baseline VRR experience on GeForce RTX 20-series and GeForce GTX 10-series graphics cards, and activate their VRR features automatically."
"For gamers who have monitors that we have not yet tested, or that have failed validation, we’ll give you an option to manually enable VRR, too."
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/01/06/g-sync-displays-ces/
 
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MrMarvelous said:
Many thanks, looks like mine might never be supported though. :(
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I don't think age is that important. However, Nvidia are only validating monitors which have a VRR range of at least 2.4:1 (e.g. 60Hz-144Hz). So 4K monitors like mine which have a 40-60Hz range will not be tested or validated. With a 1080 Ti or similar most games will run within this range at 4K, but I guess Nvidia are wary of someone using a less capable card on these monitors.
 
IT Troll said:
I don't think age is that important. However, Nvidia are only validating monitors which have a VRR range of at least 2.4:1 (e.g. 60Hz-144Hz). So 4K monitors like mine which have a 40-60Hz range will not be tested or validated. With a 1080 Ti or similar most games will run within this range at 4K, but I guess Nvidia are wary of someone using a less capable card on these monitors.
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any adaptive sync monitor will work confirmed by nvidia, youl just need to enable it by yourself rather than it being auto enabled.
 
LambChop said:
nVidia is not supporting AMD's implementation of it. The title is misleading and factually incorrect.
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Well if you want to be pedantic the title is a question, not a fact. FreeSync has just become commonly used term for the technology, almost like hoover.
 
henson0115 said:
adaptive sync is the same no matter who uses it regardless of what its called, its well adaptive sync. from a technical point of view nvidias mindshare is at work here. its all adaptive sync therefor the title is accurate.
not sure how many times i need to keep posting proof but il go find it for you if you like.
p.s there is technically no interpretation of it (other than the gsync module), for it to work it has to meet the vesa standard therfor all matching to adaptive sync...
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VESA standardised Adaptive sync, AMD supports it. Now, if vNdia supports it, they are supporting their implementation of the already there VESA Adaptive Sync.

You dont need to post proof of anything, its not my fault you are fiding facts hard to accept.
 
LambChop said:
VESA standardised Adaptive sync, AMD supports it. Now, if vNdia supports it, they are supporting their implementation of the already there VESA Adaptive Sync.

You dont need to post proof of anything, its not my fault you are fiding facts hard to accept.
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dude you are wrong, read nvidia blog they also refer to it as the VESA standard. theres no interpretation. thats like saying games developers can interpret dx11...
 
henson0115 said:
any adaptive sync monitor will work confirmed by nvidia, youl just need to enable it by yourself rather than it being auto enabled.
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I know, I posted the same earlier. You will be able to manually enable the driver feature to try it on any Freesync monitor. But Nvidia will not confirm that it will work well. I guess this might also mean that they will not put much work into the driver to address any issues.
 
IT Troll said:
I know, I posted the same earlier. You will be able to manually enable the driver feature to try it on any Freesync monitor. But Nvidia will not confirm that it will work well. I guess this might also mean that they will not put much work into the driver to address any issues.
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its got there gsync name of it, so i imagine they will put the effort in, even if it is the lower end version for them.
 
henson0115 said:
dude you are wrong, read nvidia blog they also refer to it as the VESA standard. theres no interpretation. thats like saying games developers can interpret dx11...
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I dont want to argue various different points, but interpret and implement are different things. I'm talking about implementation.

It would be silly to say that AMD adopted G-Sync, it's essentially the same technology only one hardware and one software. AMD clearly didnt. AMD supported a standard that was already there through the displayport. nVidia will implement it through driver support. AMD supports the VESA standard through the port, nVidia supports the VEA standard through the port, nVidia is not supporting freesync.

I cant make it any clearer.
 
LambChop said:
I dont want to argue various different points, but interpret and implement are different things. I'm talking about implementation.

It would be silly to say that AMD adopted G-Sync, it's essentially the same technology only one hardware and one software. AMD clearly didnt. AMD supported a standard that was already there through the displayport. nVidia will implement it through driver support. AMD supports the VESA standard through the port, nVidia supports the VEA standard through the port, nVidia is not supporting freesync.

I cant make it any clearer.
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freesync and adaptive sync are one and the same so whilst they are not supporting the word "freesync", they are supporting adaptive sync therefor semantics aside they support monitors that are labeled as freesync monitors of which i have 2.
 
Let's be honest it's a total climbdown by Nvidia. For once they are doing something to benefit the consumer, albeit to boost sales of their overpriced Gpu's.
 
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