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[ Legit Reviews ] Richard Huddy Says AMD FreeSync Drivers Are Coming In December

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AMD’s very own Richard Huddy took to the stage at PDXLAN and talked about all things gaming to the group of people that came for the presentation. My. Huddy is AMD’s Gaming Scientist and at the LAN party touched on FreeSync (aka Adaptive Sync) during his time on stage and dropped some pretty big news when it comes to release dates. AMD will be releasing FreeSync supporting drivers in December 2014. AMD has been talking to Legit Reviews and introduced us to the idea FreeSync in September 2013, so this has been a long time coming. AMD is promising that FreeSync will the comparable to NVIDIA’s G-Sync technology as the monitor refresh rate is synchronized with the render rate delivered by the GPU.
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So it means that AMD copy paste G-Sync features on Free Sync .


Infraction issued for thread crapping - Desprado, don't even bother posting in this thread anymore if you can't behave.

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desprado said:
I am not starting bro but i am just saying what fact are telling.Basically in real world it is a copy past of G-sync with $100 cheaper but fact remains that we dont know yet how it will performance.
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Instead of spreading fud, just do your research.

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NVIDIA Sacrifices VESA Adaptive Sync Tech to Rake in G-SYNC Royalties
NVIDIA's G-SYNC technology is rivaled by AMD's project Freesync, which is based on a technology standardized by the video electronics standards association (VESA), under Adaptive Sync. The technology lets GPUs and monitors keep display refresh rates in sync with GPU frame-rates, so the resulting output appears fluid. VESA's technology does not require special hardware inside standards-compliant monitors, and is royalty-free, unlike NVIDIA G-SYNC, which is based on specialized hardware, which display makers have to source from NVIDIA, which makes it a sort of a royalty.

When asked by Chinese publication Expreview on whether NVIDIA GPUs will support VESA adaptive-sync, the company mentioned that NVIDIA wants to focus on G-SYNC. A case in point is the display connector loadout of the recently launched GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970. According to specifications listed on NVIDIA's website, the two feature DisplayPort 1.2 connectors, and not DisplayPort 1.2a, a requirement of VESA's new technology. AMD's year-old Radeon R9 and R7 GPUs, on the other hand, support DisplayPort 1.2a, casting a suspicion on NVIDIA's choice of connectors. Interestingly, the GTX 980 and GTX 970 feature HDMI 2.0, so it's not like NVIDIA is slow at catching up with new standards. Did NVIDIA leave out DisplayPort 1.2a in a deliberate attempt to check Adaptive Sync?
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I created this thread to inform people about this new technology coming soon. I didn't create it to bash AMD or bash Nvidia. If it is your goal to bash one or both of them, then please refrain from posting here.
 
KaRLiToS said:
Instead of spreading fud, just do your research.

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I created this thread to inform people about this new technology coming soon. I didn't create it to bash AMD or bash Nvidia. If it is your goal to bash one or both of them, then please refrain from posting here.
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Sorry my bad...................
 
desprado said:
I am not starting bro but i am just saying what fact are telling.Basically in real world it is a copy past of G-sync with $100 cheaper but fact remains that we dont know yet how it will performance.
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Is the G-SYNC module now $100?

I thought it still cost a fair bit more than that.. the few monitors that has GSYNC would seem to indicate a hefty premium.

Maybe you should focus on whether it will achieve a similar result, as in, Freesync must be inferior because it's not using a dedicated NV hardware module, right?
 
what is sad is that after decades of LCD monitors, and even more years of 3D graphics, neither nvidia or amd have made a solution that fixes vsync problem but does not cost anything, and that it just works for every monitor. The GPUs of insane throughput are unable to execute basic functionality properly.

How does this save me any money? "free" for me and million others means this: don't have to buy another monitor (which is longest lasting PC part I got).
 
postmortemIA said:
what is sad is that after decades of LCD monitors, and even more years of 3D graphics, neither nvidia or amd have made a solution that fixes vsync problem but does not cost anything, and that it just works for every monitor. The GPUs of insane throughput are unable to execute basic functionality properly.

How does this save me any money? "free" for me and million others means this: don't have to buy another monitor (which is longest lasting PC part I got).
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I find cases and power supplies more future-proof than displays.
Free free-sync upgrade for every monitor would be great. But in the times of vicious marketing that pushes every possible sale it's not possible. They look for every opportunity to sell you a new product. And when it is something that will last for long, the make extra effort to bring new, upgrade-worthy tech only to new products.
 
ShintaiDK said:
So at least 100$ premium for Freesync to begin with.

So much for free to 5-10$ BS 😉
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You are taking into account buying a new monitor as a premium?

What about buying a completely new GSYNC monitor? $600+?

Even if you happen to own that one ASUS model compatible with the separate manual-install GSYNC module, its still several fold more expensive .. >_>
 
Silverforce11 said:
You are taking into account buying a new monitor as a premium?

What about buying a completely new GSYNC monitor? $600+?

Even if you happen to own that one ASUS model compatible with the separate manual-install GSYNC module, its still several fold more expensive .. >_>
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I think you missed the point.
Standard 400$
Freesync 500$+
GSync 600$
 
If they put it in in december I guess we'll have prototypes in january, so we can finally compare.

I wonder how much variation we'll see between manufacturers and models, as freesync should allow for really cheap low hz screens without overdrive, but also for rog swift equivalents.
 
At the low end $100 would be a decent percentage of the monitor price. Anyway,we will have to wait until they are out first to see what the realworld pricing will be like though.
 
If we lived in the world of open standards and lack of G-Sync, if NV embraced FreeSync and then AMD and VESA followed, this development would be cheered by most PC gamers worldwide. However, now that NV spent millions of dollars creating yet another NV locked proprietary standard that makes them $ for every unit sold, and consequently them outright rejecting a competing open market standard, it is not a surprise to see such a backlash against FreeSync.

Tell me this, if NV is all for the greater good of the gamer and moving the world's technology forward, and if they are so confident that G-Sync > FreeSync, why aren't they supporting both standards on their cards and letting the consumer decide?

It's amazing to me how Google with its open eco-system is dominating the world's smartphone market against locked proprietary iOS Apple strategy and yet on the PC, a platform always embraced for open standards, gamers oppose competiton from the open-standard FreeSync. Ironically, it is generally only NV brand loyalists who cheer closed NV proprietary features.

If FreeSync is available on 4K and/or IPS monitors, that would be a killer advantage over all the inferior TN G-Sync monitors. If FreeSync is at least as good, we have more choices. Choices are great unless you hate competiton or work for NV or have financial interests in them.
 
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Nvidia was first with gsync, of course they're not going to support freesync yet. Amd pushes proprietary stuff too with mantle and true audio.

And nobody hates freesync, just richard huddy.
 
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