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What is freesync?

tommybhoy said:
For the umpteenth time, Amd have never done anything apart from the driver level to enable 3D, keep ignoring that though if you think it contrives your freesync cost argument.

Amd don't plug 3D as it's on the decline in regards to PC gaming in general-Nvidia haven't advanced their 3D either, if it was gaining momentum, there would have been a 3D vision kit 3 by now with version 4 on the horizon.

The rest you are discussing cost with freesync-fair enough, valid points that we will find out in due course.
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they do actively advertise it;
http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/amd-hd3d/Pages/hd3d.aspx

according to the AMD website you don't even need tridef to run AMD 3D
 
andybird123 said:
I honestly don't care, I'm just being pragmatic.



the first point, as a consumer, do I care if AMD make nothing from a screen that costs £100 more than the nvidia equivalent? or do I only care about the actual price I pay?

second point, yes it entirely matters... calling something a "standard" only works if it is supported by multiple manufacturers

third point, same as the first point, as a consumer I only care about the actual end price, so if the Asus monitor is £300 without and £400 with, but the samsung freesync one is £450 (the same price as the only 3D monitor they currently sell - so "free"sync) with and no option without, then that is the comparison you end up with - at this point we simply don't know
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Which makes all your cost comparisons to AMD irrelevant because none of them are dependent on AMD and neither are the costs of the monitors or the 3D software.

AND industry standard means it can be supported by multiple manufacturers and not that all must for it to be and not locked to a brand.
 
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Final8y said:
Which makes all your cost comparisons to AMD irrelevant because none of them are dependent on AMD and neither are the costs of the monitors or the 3D software.

AND industry standard means it can be supported by multiple manufacturers and not that all must for it to be and not locked to a brand.
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Not irrelevant, you just fail to accept that most end users don't care WHO is getting the money, they only care that to get from A to B they have to pay more doing it one way than yhe other
 
andybird123 said:
Not irrelevant, you just fail to accept that most end users don't care WHO is getting the money, they only care that to get from A to B they have to pay more doing it one way than yhe other
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Which has nothing to do with AMD and neither will the cost of a Freesync monitor.
So is doing it the freesync way more expensive than the Gsync way, you have nothing on so you tried the make a comparison with 3D which is apples to oranges because only an expensive 3D monitor is all you could currently find [which still has nothing to do with AMD] and tried to make out it would be the same for Freesync, when that was not even the point its about the cost on top which we know in regards to Gsync.
 
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For something that doesn't even exist yet this sure is riveting. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy G-sync panels. Meanwhile the usual suspects completely ignore the rave reviews from every corner, and in typical head to brick wall fashion big up the pros of something we've yet to see on the market, and that AMD 'claim' to be free. As for Tri-Def vs NV Vision. Both good quality options, mk2 NV glasses by far the best for gaming though.

Asking you genuinely. Stop the madness
 
I'm getting confused are 'we' still arguing over whether FreeSync is in fact 'Free'?

Surely it's as simple as "if it costs more money to be able to use FreeSync than to not be able to use FreeSync" then it's not free?
 
The point is we don't know for a fact if it will be completely free or not as no monitor that can allow it has been released yet. Price isn't down to amd its down to monitor manufacturers.
 
Then why are the Sammy glasses crap? I'm not talking about shutter lenses specifically, they've been around years so I'm not sure what you're implying there. Pretty sure it was Toshiba or Panasonic anyway as Samsung were very much in their infancy manufacturing LCDS at that time.

They're all built around the same tech, just the mk2 3d vision are the best glasses.
 
When Freesync is launched on desktop monitors, there will be an added cost to the end user.

PERIOD.

It's new, it will be marketed and vendors will add cost for it. Anyone who thinks they will get Freesync for free because there is no hardware requirement on the GPU side and the method is a 'VESA standard' are fooling themselves.
 
Sin_Chase said:
When Freesync is launched on desktop monitors, there will be an added cost to the end user.

PERIOD.

It's new, it will be marketed and vendors will add cost for it. Anyone who thinks they will get Freesync for free because there is no hardware requirement on the GPU side and the method is a 'VESA standard' are fooling themselves.
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+1
 
MjFrosty said:
Then why are the Sammy glasses crap? I'm not talking about shutter lenses specifically, they've been around years so I'm not sure what you're implying there. Pretty sure it was Toshiba or Panasonic anyway as Samsung were very much in their infancy manufacturing LCDS at that time.

They're all built around the same tech, just the mk2 3d vision are the best glasses.
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I'm not talking about general sammy 3D glasses, I'm specifically talking about Samsung 120Hz 3D panels glasses in direct comparison with your opinion of 'mk2 NV glasses by far the best for gaming'.

The lightboost/3D aka Nvidia 3D vision 2 kit and monitors is the exact same tech employed on the Samsung 120Hz 3D panels, which were released before 3D vision 2, that's why I asked 'ever wonder who originally developed the tech?'

If the sammy glasses are ****, then Nvidia's are **** too as they are the exact same tech, different shape is all.
 
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