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Samsung the First FreeSync Display?

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AMD used its Future of Compute event in Singapore as a platform for announcements from its partners and clients in support of its own technology and ecosystem-building efforts. Samsung, which currently holds 60 percent of the global market for 4K UHD monitors, announced broad support of the FreeSync standard in all products starting in 2015. The Korean giant introduced five new UHD monitors: the UE 590 series will come in 23.6-inch and 28-inch models, while the UE 850 series will come in 23.6-inch, 27-inch and 31.5-inch models. AMD also announced that the world's three biggest manufacturers of UHD monitor scalers would be building in support for FreeSync.
The standard brings about smoother gameplay without frame tearing and stuttering by synchronizing a monitor's refresh rate with the stream of frames being fed into it. FreeSync has already been adopted by VESA and will be part of the DisplayPort 1.2a specification. Richard Huddy, Chief Gaming Scientist at AMD referred to Nvidia's competing GSync standard, calling it inferior because of its dependence on proprietary hardware and the fact that Nvidia charges partners a license fee.

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/news/...re-enix-and-more-announce-partnerships-623546
 
tommybhoy said:
No way, who knows it could be crap or it will simply do what it's meant to do, don't even know if I'll jump on Freesync though.

From reports, Gsync is problematic using dual or more gpu's, it works under specific driver revisions then they break it again, 3rd driver in a row where it isn't working.:(

Depends on how it's implemented, if it is an all encompassing profile, it might fair better than Nvidia's game specific profiles(if that's how it's employed), then it may better game support wise.

All speculation on my part, but big thanks goes out to Nvidia for debuting the tech and even bigger thanks to AMD for not milking the tech.:D
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Yeah I the same I have my questions and i'll be one the first one here reporting back!
My reason for buying new display is because I really want to move away from 1080p.
 
andybird123 said:
you are over egging that slightly tommy, PGI wasn't talking about SLI+Gsync, he was talking specifically about SLI+DSR+SLI

I've not seen any problems with SLI + Gsync, only SLI in specific games, unrelated to gsync
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"Well, I don't hide the fact that I am an nVidia fan but that doesn't stop me picking up on things that I have noticed as well. G-Sync does a great job but why am I running on one card? Simply because SLI isn't doing well at the moment and it just feels wrong. Single card is flawless and even a single Titan can cope in all the games I play but I own 3 Titans and want to be able to use all 3 but if the smoothness isn't there, I feel it isn't good enough. I have picked this up and brought it to the attention of nVidia via the forums and I hope a few more people notice and do the same."

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=27198445&postcount=1

"Just seeing your post Smogsy and spot on for me. BF4 was stuttery, Batman AO would stutter at the end of a fight and generally I am quite sensitive to microstutter and I can feel it but with G-Sync on a single card, it is a complete different experience and untouchable.... Maybe it is just a G-Sync and SLI problem perhaps?"

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=27199063&postcount=10

"Well I am limited to how far I can go back with drivers (G-Sync limited) and it is certainly frame time delivery for me. Single card is unbelievable on G-Sync but SLI leaves me scratching my head."

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=27199333&postcount=18

It's not just Greg either, and as I said to him in another thread if FreeSync dont work to the standards I want like Crossfire then to me its a fail!
But no loss to me as i'll just carry on how I have been for years...
 
pgi947 said:
Edit: gsync is a non issue, it works as intended all the time regardless of cards used, the monitor manages the frames not the gpu, so it's safe to presume the frames being sent to the monitor are in some way off to be causing issues. For what it's worth Bf4 is back to being like silk for me on two cards with the latest dlc, so it may even be map specific.
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I thought its the GPU that handles the frame with Gsync? "Graphic Sync" If it was the Monitor then that would be how its been for years.

Its your GPU telling the display when to refresh and display frames not the display.
 
andybird123 said:
The monitor uses a look aside buffer, it is the monitor hardware that handles the display end, the gpu just spits out frames as fast as it can
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No the GPU is telling the display what refresh rate to run at to keep the frame rate smooth and tear free..

Old way was just standard monitor 60hz and GPU outputting max frames x100 = tearing
Gsync Display 60hz, GPU outputting x40fps GPU will tell display to run at 40hz
 
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