Question Is adaptive sync as important with high refresh rates?

[VoidRoamer]

Hello. One of the big things in monitor advertising is adaptive sync (Freesync/G-Sync). I was wondering: if you have a monitor capable of 120Hz or higher refresh rates, wouldn't V-Sync alone be adequate? AFAIK adaptive sync was to resolve the stuttering issues that occurred when low monitor refresh rates mismatched the frame rate of the game/app however with with high refresh rate monitors becoming common, wouldn't this issue diminish substantially and reduce the importance of adaptive sync?

Thanks in advance.

 

[alcoholbob]

I don't think you have the correct idea of what vsync does, it locks the framerate to the refresh rate of the monitor. If you drop below the refresh rate, you get stuttering.

However you are correct that generally freesync/gsync is less generally effective at higher refresh rates, not due to to the fact that freesync/gsync isn't working, but a bigger problem then variable refresh at high refresh rates is that that in general CPUs struggle more to hold up that high framerate and you get a lot of sudden drops from 144 to 100 for instance and variable refresh rate doesn't real do much for these sudden stutters.