Are there any g-sync TVs?

[boed]

Hello,

I just saw a youtube video where a guy bought a Wasabi Mango TV/monitor that had AMD sync. I was curious if there were any TVs with this or any soon to be released?

 

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Hello,

I just saw a youtube video where a guy bought a Wasabi Mango TV/monitor that had AMD sync. I was curious if there were any TVs with this or any soon to be released?

No, and if you think this is coming anytime soon, you are going to be sorely disappointed.

Nvidia exercises a ton of control over gsync, and has to personally authenticate your monitor.

Look at the list of monitors available for freesync vs gsync....
Gsync
15 monitors out
6 monitors upcoming

Freesync
55+ monitors out
Tons more incoming

Given how the technology works, it doesn't make sense to go with Gsync. Gsync costs more, but will give you the same effect as freesync. It just makes more sense to go with freesync+AMD GPU.

Unless you're telling me that you truly believe you can notice the difference between AMD GPU+Freesynca nd Nvidia GPU + Gsync. In which case, I have a lot of other scams, errr I mean business opportunities, I'd like to introduce you to.

 

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Thanks. That is a shame for me because I usually find NVidia perform better although they haven't embraced DX12 - neither have any games I play.

 

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Thanks. That is a shame for me because I usually find NVidia perform better although they haven't embraced DX12 - neither have any games I play.

Again though, you understand with freesync/gsync, that you will be unable to tell the difference right? Whether you have 45 vs, 55 fps, Nvidia, AMD, etc. it won't matter.

All you will see is smooth gaming...

For me, it has nothing to do with what vendor I like. I dislike Nvidia and AMD both. There is no reason for me to like them. They are NOT my friends.

But freesync is cheaper, and like many video reviewers have stated, when it comes down to getting a GPU+Monitor, Freesync+AMD has more options and is cheaper, so it's a pretty easy choice if you're getting a new monitor and a new card in the near future, which many people will. This is of course, assuming you don't care about branding at all, and you only care about actually gaming.

The other concern with Gsync is, with so few monitors, and so little support, Nvidia may one day drop support all together for Gsync and go with the open Freesync standard. They may just give up on the whole Gsync thing as quite frankly, the benefit of Nvidia selling people the Gsync module may not be worth it, if people decide to go Freesync+AMD because it's cheaper.

That's a worst case scenario though and I honestly expect Gsync to work with new cards, even if Nvidia abandons utilizing the Gsync module and goes with the open standard (They'll just brand it differently to avoid using freesync and say the monitor suports freesync+Gsync or something).

Once you throw in other concerns beyond smooth gaming, the whole thing changes entirely.

 

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Nvidia + Gsync costs $200-300 for the same performance as AMD + Freesync.

This is just a given.

So if you're in your scenario, where you want Nvidia then chances are, you were ok with paying the $200-300+ Nvidia tax for Nvidia's card + Gsync tax.

Assuming you're OK with this, then here is my recommendation:
Grab the AMH 409U monitor.
It's a little cheaper than an equivalent Wasabi Mango monitor so you'll save $50-100?

Now you would have paid $200-300 extra for Gsync anyway, and you know that or should know that.

So since you didn't get Gsync with the AMH 409U monitor, use that $400 in savings from not getting a Gsync monitor+not getting a monitor with freesync and instead, get a second GPU, and use SLI for Nvidia.

Which still is sad since you could still end up getting crossfire+Freesync for about the same amount and end up with better performance since crossfire scales better, and AMD does better at higher resolutions, but I mean, if you want to go Nvidia, that's your best bet, and it's what many people are doing who do have Nvidia cards and who want to game at 4K big screen monitor.

 

[boed]

Thanks - unfortunately I have no space whatsoever left in my case 10g nic, heavy duty raid card, and the video card -all of which need a good amount of cooling and I really don't want to go water cooled. I'll have to buy a new video card. If the AMD Polaris is significantly better than my 980ti I can consider it but the difference will have to be huge as my 980ti barely pushes the 60hz on games like crisis 3 at 2560x1600 with all the bells and whistles enabled (but it sure looks great).

 

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Big pascal and vega are what you're looking at the and in that case you have to decide.

For 4k gaming on a big screen are you willing to give up Nvidia for adaptive sync?

Otherwise you'll need more gpu horsepower to hold that 60 fps minimum vs the 40 fps minimum for amd on the freesync side.

Wait and see.

If you stick with Nvidia though, I'd go sli big pascal + 40+ inch Korean import 4k monitor. Since you're a 980tibowner you have some time and maybe they'll ha e bigger and more monitor options by then. I was a 65 Inch Freesync monitor option.

Your best case scenario is Nvidia gives up, let's you use freesync (with a rebrand to supports freesync and gsync) and then you get what you actually want.

 

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I agree about the GPUs. I don't know what I'll get but I really would like both a big monitor and GPU by the end of the year. I'm hoping we'll see a lot more DP 1.3 monitors or even TVs by the end of the year.

I'm kind of hoping even if NVidia doesn't give up on g-sync that someone can crack the active sync like they did for their mobile gpu's

 

[TheRyuu]

G-Sync isn't as useful for stuff like video playback compared to gaming so I doubt you'll see it on TV's any time soon if ever. Freesync support might come just from supporting DisplayPort but again the (video playback) software will likely not be making use of it. There may be corner cases where it can be useful but that's definitely the exception rather than the rule.

I realize that you could actually be gaming on a TV sized screen but I'm not sure how big that market is so that coupled with the above probably explain the lack of G-Sync on such devices.

 

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G-Sync isn't as useful for stuff like video playback compared to gaming so I doubt you'll see it on TV's any time soon if ever. Freesync support might come just from supporting DisplayPort but again the (video playback) software will likely not be making use of it. There may be corner cases where it can be useful but that's definitely the exception rather than the rule.

I realize that you could actually be gaming on a TV sized screen but I'm not sure how big that market is so that coupled with the above probably explain the lack of G-Sync on such devices.

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It's more that it's simply not known and most people don't really use freesync/gsync on top of that, even in markets where they ABSOLUTELY should use it.

The best monitor to use this with right now is the UHD550.

The UHD420 would have been nice, but it's very rare and actually costs as much as the UHD550.
The UHD400 doesn't have as good quality of screen.

Largest problem is most likely the install base of freesync capable GPUs.

However, if the OP insists on Nvidia but wants a cheap and "large" 4k TV, he could get this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAACM3UU3802

Depends on how large you want. So far the UHD550 have stayed in stock so very little demand as many people aren't interested in a monitor so big.

The ~40 inch model import monitors usually do sell out

The Crossover 494k and 434k also supposed freesync.