Indeed. A major part of the cost is that g-sync requires monitor manufacturers to add a separate board. They spend a lot of money on R&D and design, it's not as simple as just slapping a board in there, it costs money to figure a solution. In comparison, freesync is readily able to be integrated into existing designs, that's why it doesn't have a premium.
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Indeed. A major part of the cost is that g-sync requires monitor manufacturers to add a separate board. They spend a lot of money on R&D and design, it's not as simple as just slapping a board in there, it costs money to figure a solution. In comparison, freesync is readily able to be integrated into existing designs, that's why it doesn't have a premium.
Personally I didn't do too badly out of it as G-Sync makes some drops in framerate palatable that would have been unacceptable before allowing me to skip a generation in GPU upgrades absorbing the cost of G-Sync.
Tell that to Asus
when I opened up my latest failing ROG Swift (since bought the Dell which so far has been trouble free) the G-Sync FPGA is slapped in there pretty haphazardly with a bit of tape with the chassis modified as little as possible to accommodate it although not the cause of the problems with those monitors it isn't surprising they have such a poor track record with that approach.
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I just want a replacement to my 290x at the same price I bought my 290x at all those years ago..
It shouldn't be this hard
It shouldn't be this hard
You opened with saying the quote was wrong then proceeded to agree with it lol.
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What i said makes sense to me and it also appears Benjii understood as well.
The price is high because they need to be due to the extra costs involved and not because they will sell loads at that price. It is explained better with the quote at the bottom.
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Ah hah, thanks. At vacation resort, not really paying that much attention lol.
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But....but....but....Freesync savings yo!!!!
All will be clear soon. It's hard to grasp what the hell this strategy is going to be. Either performance is higher than we have seen so far or that pricing is wrong as even Freesync can't save a price higher than the 1080ti top versions.
But....but....but....Freesync savings yo!!!!
Damn, I forgot. All is forgiven AMD! In all seriousness though, if Vega isn't priced competitively, I may well sell my freesync monitor and get a 1080ti and a g-sync monitor.
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Tbh I'll win either way, and if AMD smash it then I'll just keep my LG instead of the PG348Q
Well yeah, but you did kind of disagree with the post about the monitor manufacturers setting the price of the monitors based on their costs and what people will pay, then go on to explain basically that it's the monitor manufacturers who set the price based on their costs.
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That wasn't my intention as i do agree they set the prices. Was just saying the main reason they are priced so high is due to the extra costs and not because they are selling so great at there current price points. They need to make profit so have to price them high to do so. There is also the fact that people will pay more for Nvidia so wouldn't surprise me if there is a little bit of brand tax going on.
Jezzz could you imagine the price once the Miners jumped on it?Nah, it's to put off the (manic) miner's so gamers get a chance to buy
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Why is everyone assuming this price is right?
I don't think its a bad thing, I do think that if they had a properly fast card they would be taking a different tack and showing things off differently.
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