Freesync is the only reason Vega surives

>>62437636
Nice blog.

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>>62437636
Or they could just adopt regular Freesync as there's nothing stopping a Pascal based graphics card from supporting it via DisplayPort.

>>62437651

a.k.a "G-sync on their mobile GPUs"'

Nvidia could easily unlock that shit with a simple driver update, but they aren't willing to shallow their pride and sacrifice "G-Sync 1.0" for it.

Nvidia already ungimped their Pascal Titans via a driver update when Vega Frontiers were raping them at prosumer-tier stuff.

Freesync is an open hardware solution I'm pretty sure whether or not Nvidia adopts it is completely irrelevant to AMD.

IIRC Gsync was announced first and then AMD announced freesync shortly afterward to spoil Nvidia's fun. If Nvidia adopts freesync it would just render gsync completely irrelevant.

I'm happily to buy a Nvidia gpu if they release the driver that can use VESA Adaptive-Sync(Freesync) like the one that they use on their laptop. But they know that once they use Freesync, Gsync will look like a scam.

>>62437636
It's more like the nvidia tax on gsync monitors is the only thing keeping AMD alive, because it steers people away from gsync thus nvidia and right into AMD's arms

>>62437667
You don't seem to accept that G-Sync works much better.

>>62437636
Help out a dummy. I have a GTX 1070 that supports G-Sync but my monitor supports Freesync. Is Freesync doing anything for me in that case or is it just useless?

>>62437944
Are you not getting the "G-sync on their mobile GPUs" part?

If you have a laptop with a selected nvidia gpu, you can utilise a technology that is called "gsync" to allow the monitor to perform adaptive frame sync without the requirement of a traditional nvidia designed gsync scaler module that is found in all standalone desktop monitors that support a technology called "gsync".

It is unclear if these two versions of gsync are actually the same and the gsync scaler is just physical drm, or if there are actual technical differences between the way gsync is implemented in laptops vs desktops.

If nvidia were to allow the mobile version of gsync to be used on desktops, you wouldn't have to buy a more expensive monitor just to get adaptive frame syncing on nvidia cards. It is possible that this would even be compatible with VESA adaptive sync, meaning you could possibly run an nvidia GPU on a "Freesync" monitor.

Don't suppose anyone has a good analysis of the differences?

>>62438175
completely useless

>>62438175
useless unless one day nvidia wants to support it like they did in their laptop. it just a fucking driver.

Daily reminder that the average gamer has neither free sync or gsync and neither fucking matter and has no impact on market share.

580s and consoles are keeping RTG alive, not goddamn freesync.
Most people are using goddamn 100$ 1080p office tier monitors.

>>62438175
totally useless, I'm in the same boat. Nvidia dropped the ball not supporting both standards while blocking AMD out of one

>>62437813
Announcing shortly after would mean it was almost finished as well, not a project that started after competitor's announcement. I would say the announcement order doesn't matter. Nvidia just wants to lock people in and that's why G-sync exists.

>>62438231
It can't be physical DRM because G-Sync works a lot better. Most reviewers who’ve compared the two side-by-side seem to prefer the quality of G-Sync, which does not show stutter issues at low framerates, and thus smoother in real-world situations. Some FreeSync monitors have an extremely narrow adaptive refresh range, and if your video card can’t deliver frames within that range, problems arise.