Freesync monitors to start releasing in November

[Dribble]

Do 120hz monitors typically cost $10-$20 more than their 60hz equivalents?

They should do - unlike freesync the tech is well established for 5+ years and should cost very little to add. Most TV's are 120hz so it has widespread adoption. There are also obvious gains to the user - it's an improvement in pretty well every scenario. It works on all makes of graphics card. Yet most monitors are 60hz, and the 120hz ones all have a big markup?

You tell me why because if monitor makers can't even be bothered to adopt 120hz then they certainly won't all be rushing to adopt freesync.

 

[dacostafilipe]

Again, you are changing the conditions.

What conditions? You asked how a nVidia user could use A-Sync and I gave you a possible response.

I've also told you that per your definition A-Sync is NOT vendor locked as it's not proprietary.

You are the one not understanding that A-Sync is not FreeSync.

We don't know if A-Sync will work on nVidia or not, we just know that they do not officially support it. Don't confuse both!

 

[bystander36]

What conditions? You asked how a nVidia user could use A-Sync and I gave you a possible response.

I've also told you that per your definition A-Sync is NOT vendor locked as it's not proprietary.

You are the one not understanding that A-Sync is not FreeSync.

We don't know if A-Sync will work on nVidia or not, we just know that they do not officially support it. Don't confuse both!

Well, the definition stated it that being proprietary was the most common reason, but not the only reason. So no, that is not true.

It simply states that if a customer cannot easily transition to another vendor, that customer is vendor locked.

We are talking about the possibility that might happen. Not what will happen. It is one situation, and under that condition, the person is locked-in to a single vendor.

That hypothetical situation is that a person buys an A-sync monitor for variable refresh rate on his Windows gaming PC. Nvidia and Intel do not support A-sync (remember, hypothetical situation), and only AMD does.

That person is vendor locked-in to AMD because he cannot easily transition to any other GPU vendor and get his A-sync monitor to have variable refresh rates.

Unless something changes, such as software being available to make Nvidia and Intel hardware work with A-sync, that person is locked-in to AMD. It does not matter if the VESA standard is open if the person cannot use it on anything but one vendor.

That is my last response to you on this. If this does not make sense to you, you clearly are just disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing.