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Some Current AMD GPUs Will Support FreeSync

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http://techreport.com/news/27000/amd-only-certain-new-radeons-will-work-with-freesync-displays

 

290/x and 285 will definitely support it. 260X MIGHT support it with a driver update (no clue how that'll work).

 

It's not a lengthy article and this is basically the meat of it, but this is straight from AMD's PR people.

 

EDIT: no news on current APUs or Carrizo supporting it.

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Too bad I might never get the chance to see one of those monitors in action...

(I'm starting to really hate my country...)

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Update: all gcn supported gpus support freesync as long as they have the new displayport, i forgot what the number was, it was an official statement from amd.

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of all cards why the 260x? its a poor card i doubt it can even create enough frames the cause tearing 

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Update: all gcn supported gpus support freesync as long as they have the new displayport, i forgot what the number was, it was an official statement from amd.

1.2a. This is a newer update though. It turns out that's not quite true. The older revision of GCN can't possibly implement the protocol unfortunately.

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All APUs (kaveri) will support it as well as ALL  new radeon cards coming out including the 285. This is from that AMD scientist Huddy from the no BS podcast

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of all cards why the 260x? its a poor card i doubt it can even create enough frames the cause tearing 

For monitors which run at 30 Hz? What about Diablo 2 running at 258 fps?

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For monitors which run at 30 Hz? What about Diablo 2 running at 258 fps?

well i doubt many people still have 30hz monitors 

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I'm not believing any of the freesync hype until freesync is actually tested. AMD has just been hyping it up constantly, saying that it will be better than G-sync, but they don't even have anything to show yet.

Before anyone says anything, no I'm not fanboying over Nvidia. I'd be saying the same thing if this were the other way around. Right now all freesync is is some magical technology that we've never seen except once, but if I remember correctly it was a special thing that only worked on that laptop screen.

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All APUs (kaveri) will support it as well as ALL  new radeon cards coming out including the 285. This is from that AMD scientist Huddy from the no BS podcast

But all the Kaveri APU boards have only DP 1.2, not 1.2a, and that's not quite possible because that's still the older GCN revision.

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I'm not believing any of the freesync hype until freesync is actually tested. AMD has just been hyping it up constantly, saying that it will be better than G-sync, but they don't even have anything to show yet. Before anyone says anything, no I'm not fanboying over Nvidia. I'd be saying the same thing if this were the other way around. Right now all freesync is is some magical technology that we've never seen except once, but if I remember correctly it was a special thing that only worked on that laptop screen.

And crashed a lot. :P

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There is no news in this article. Variable framerate in games only work with GCN 1.1. GCN 1 is only for video playback and power savings. This has been public knowledge for months. What a dumb article. They even call rebranded 7000 series cards for new.

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There is no news in this article. Variable framerate in games only work with GCN 1.1. GCN 1 is only for video playback and power savings. This has been public knowledge for months. What a dumb article. They even call rebranded 7000 series cards for new.

We're on GCN 1.2 right now going forward. Please keep up. And yes, AMD rebrands older HD GPUs into the Radeon series. What else is new? This is news, just not much.

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We're on GCN 1.2 right now going forward. Please keep up. And yes, AMD rebrands older HD GPUs into the Radeon series. What else is new? This is news, just not much.

Keep up? What are you on about? Full Freesync support is from GCN 1.1. What relevance does 1.2 have in this? The article you have posted, has been public official knowledge, from AMD themselves for months now. No news here. 

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Keep up? What are you on about? Full Freesync support is from GCN 1.1. What relevance does 1.2 have in this? The article you have posted, has been public official knowledge, from AMD themselves for months now. No news here. 

Feel free to find a conclusive report on such. Techreport tends to stay close to the leading edge of tech news.

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Nice article. I'd probably choose IPS or gsync over freesync though. :/ 

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In other news some current AMD gpus will not support FreeSync.

Too many ****ing games!  Back log 4 life! :S

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Feel free to find a conclusive report on such. Techreport tends to stay close to the leading edge of tech news.

This article is from MAY: http://www.sweclockers.com/artikel/18798-amd-om-dynamiska-uppdateringsfrekvenser-med-project-freesync/2

Telling me to keep up, then posts 3 months old "news". Seriously.

 

 

I'm going to come across as a cocky bastard for saying this, but you really can't beat me when it comes to doing research and knowing the facts.

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This article is from MAY: http://www.sweclockers.com/artikel/18798-amd-om-dynamiska-uppdateringsfrekvenser-med-project-freesync/2

Telling me to keep up, then posts 3 months old "news". Seriously.

Interesting. I'm going to be having a long word with techreport. Time for an author to be fired.

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