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ATI Freesync anywhere in sight?

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shepardh

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I am seeing a lot of Gsync monitors being released lately, any news regarding ATI's Freesync?

I'm planning on upgrading to R9 380/370 when they are released, but that kinda depends whether ATI answer to Nvidia's GSYNC is months away, or years away...
 
ShintaiDK said:
Before the end of march is ~10 weeks.
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"before the end of March" is 10 weeks maximum. I highly doubt that all the monitors will suddenly appear on March 31. Some will most likely be released before then. So we could easily see the first FreeSync monitor hit the market in three to six weeks.

ShintaiDK said:
Didnt AMD also say before the holidays?
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Not that I'm aware of. The rumor mill speculated that a couple models might have been available by then, but I believe AMD always stuck to the Q1 2015 timeline.
Now that AMD has partnered with the above named scaler unit manufacturers a broad availability target has been set for Q1 2015. That is the date from which you will start to see DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync and AMD Project FreeSync compatible monitors emerge.
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http://hexus.net/tech/news/displays/74897-amd-freesync-monitors-available-q1-2015/
 
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ShintaiDK said:
Before the end of march is ~10 weeks.

Didnt AMD also say before the holidays?
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I think that was WCCFtech or Fudzilla that said that. Freesync was slated for 1q 2015 I believe so they have no later than March to hold to their promise.
 
Rvenger said:
I think that was WCCFtech or Fudzilla that said that. Freesync was slated for 1q 2015 I believe so they have no later than March to hold to their promise.
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Huddy said on stage end of November that they would be available before end of 2014...
 
Just remember even once it's released it could be plagued by problems that AMD denies and then takes years to (kind of) fix. Look up their Enduro fiasco.
 
Gunbuster said:
Just remember even once it's released it could be plagued by problems that AMD denies and then takes years to (kind of) fix. Look up their Enduro fiasco.
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FreeSync has nothing to do with Enduro. We could just as easily say:

"Just remember that once the GM200 is released it could be plagued by problems that Nvidia denies and then takes years to (kind of) fix. Look at their Bumpgate fiasco."

Let's just stick to FreeSync discussions here and wait for the reviews to come in before we start speculating about issues that don't even exist.
 
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Creig said:
FreeSync has nothing to do with Enduro. We could just as easily say:

"Just remember that once the GM200 is released it could be plagued by problems that Nvidia denies and then takes years to (kind of) fix. Look at their Bumpgate fiasco."

Let's just stick to FreeSync discussions here and wait for the reviews to come in before we start speculating about issues that don't even exist.
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This :thumbsup:
 
Creig said:
FreeSync has nothing to do with Enduro. We could just as easily say:

"Just remember that once the GM200 is released it could be plagued by problems that Nvidia denies and then takes years to (kind of) fix. Look at their Bumpgate fiasco."

Let's just stick to FreeSync discussions here and wait for the reviews to come in before we start speculating about issues that don't even exist.
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While I get what you are saying, that isn't exactly a fair comparison. One is a progression of existing tech, and one is completely new.

I still don't expect many problems with Freesync.
 
bystander36 said:
I'm trying to say that there is nothing to worry about when it comes to a completely new technology is not exactly the same as being worried about a new model of GPU that has been progressing for years.
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That makes no sense.

Firstly, the point he was making is that his statement was ridiculous and could apply to essentially every large tech manufacturer.

Secondly, It isn't like Nvidia didn't have years and years of experience using bumps. They are used on every chip. They made poor choices and poor engineering decisions and then poor PR and customer service choices.

So in fact, just because something is a new model of a GPU progressing for years in no way means it won't have problems. As was evidenced by... bumpgate - issues with a common engineering solution that had been around forever and Nvidia still got it wrong.
 
digitaldurandal said:
That makes no sense.

Firstly, the point he was making is that his statement was ridiculous and could apply to essentially every large tech manufacturer.

Secondly, It isn't like Nvidia didn't have years and years of experience using bumps. They are used on every chip. They made poor choices and poor engineering decisions and then poor PR and customer service choices.

So in fact, just because something is a new model of a GPU progressing for years in no way means it won't have problems. As was evidenced by... bumpgate - issues with a common engineering solution that had been around forever and Nvidia still got it wrong.
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Exactly.

And talking about bump issues. Even AMD and Apple got issues with them.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-...ored-faulty-2011-macbook-pro-graphics-issues/
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14...ix-2011-macbook-pro-failures-as-problem-grows

There is always a higher risk in being early adopter. With that said, there is also more to gain from being it. Else we could all sit and use 486s today on SVGA. Sure we may have avoided Pentium flaws and crappy first time 3D. But at what loss.
 
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Around March timeframe:

FreeSync panels entered mass-production last month, and AMD says 11 of them will be available by the end of March. Asus' MG279Q, too, is due out late in the first quarter. The number of capable displays will grow to as many as 20 by the end of the year, AMD predicts, so there should be a nice stable of them for Radeon users to choose from.
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http://techreport.com/news/27650/here-240-fps-footage-of-amd-freesync-tech-and-some-new-info

For some reason this makes me think we will see next AMD GPU launched in April.
 
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