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Industry's Biggest Scaler Vendors Pledge Support for AMD's Project FreeSync

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SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 09/18/14 -- Today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced collaborations with scaler vendors MStar, Novatek and Realtek to build scaler units ready with DisplayPort™ Adaptive-Sync and AMD's Project FreeSync by year end.1

"Since the dawn of hardware-accelerated graphics, gamers dreamed of liquid smooth gameplay free of stuttering and tearing," said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit, AMD. "AMD's Project FreeSync is aimed at realizing that vision with an open, standardized and license-free approach that will encourage lower prices and wider adoption."

 

Under the technology partnerships, MStar, Novatek and Realtek each will develop a range of DisplayPort™ Adaptive-Sync-ready scalers to complement the new monitor product cycle in 1Q15. Monitors equipped with such DisplayPort™ Adaptive-Sync-aware scalers will allow contemporary AMD Radeon™ graphics cards to synchronize display refresh rates and GPU framerates via Project FreeSync to enable tearing and stutter-free gaming along with low input latency.

 

"Our customers are really excited about AMD's FreeSync technology," said Yee-Wei Huang, vice president, Realtek. "The benefits of FreeSync for gaming are clear and we believe adopting the DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync industry standard by VESA is the best approach to make this display technology widely available for everyone."

 

The new scalers from MStar, Novatek and Realtek also will give monitor vendors access to a comprehensive set of features not available with other dynamic refresh technologies. Example features include: picture scaling, on-screen display (OSD), HDMI®/DVI inputs for legacy users and DisplayPort™ High Bit Rate Audio.

 

"Project FreeSync is the industry's defining effort to bring smooth gameplay to PC enthusiasts," said Richard Hung, director, iHome SBU - SC, Novatek. "In putting forward the open DisplayPort™ Adaptive-Sync proposal for ratification, AMD has smartly led the way for Novatek scalers to power a new wave of monitors that affordably offer dynamic refresh rates."

 

Finally, the initial Project FreeSync-compatible scalers from MStar, Novatek and Realtek will empower monitor vendors with robust DisplayPort™ receivers accommodating of FHD and QHD panels up to 144Hz, or UHD panels up to 60Hz.

 

"With an open, industry-standard specification, Project FreeSync and DisplayPort™ Adaptive-Sync serve as models for consumer-friendly technologies," said Henry Lan, marketing deputy director, Display Group, MStar. "MStar is pleased to join AMD'sProject FreeSync ecosystem with scalers that will bring smooth gameplay to a new generation of displays."

 

AMD and its display partners intend to reveal Project FreeSync-ready monitors based on any one of the MStar, Novatek and Realtek scalers through a media review program in 1Q15.

 

http://ir.amd.com/mobile.view?c=74093&v=203&d=1&id=1969277

 

The salient points:

MStar, Novatek and Realtek shall manufacture DisplayPort ActiveSync/FreeSync compatible scalars by the end of this year, ready for a product release in Q1 2015

Features not available on "other" solutions (I think we all know what they mean by that): Picture scaling, OSD, HDAudio over DP as well as legacy connectors (HDMI, DVI) will be featured on the scalars.

The scalars shall allow dynamic refresh rates up to 144Hz on FHD and QHD (so up to 2560*1440) panels and 60Hz on UHD (3840*2160) panels.

Noticeable is the "Affordable" in the statement by Richard Hung.

 

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It would appear that AMD has managed to get some big players on board to produce the scalars necessary for AdaptiveSync in computer monitors.

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I don't understand. Will I have to buy an extra monitor?

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Nice to see its coming out. Hope the price tag doesn't significantly increase though.

 

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I don't understand. Will I have to buy an extra monitor?

 

There is no way they can introduce an hardware standard change to existing monitors... So yeah.

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It's happening...

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Nice to see its coming out. Hope the price tag doesn't significantly increase though.

 

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There is no way they can introduce an hardware standard change to existing monitors... So yeah.

 

I don't man, we are in 2014, we should have spaceship and holograme wife...that can be turne on..and..off, and you know.

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Really interesting. Look so much forward to the very first tests/reviews of these monitors.

With at least 3 vendors, competition is secured, and should result in a much lower price than gsync. We will see when prices are made public.

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I don't man, we are in 2014, we should have spaceship and holograme wife...that can be turne on..and..off, and you know.

wife?

 

Is it something like a PC?

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Is this kinda like "mantle support is coming!" with all those games that have "confirmed" mantle support?

 

people don't do shit for free, most companies don't either

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Is this kinda like "mantle support is coming!" with all those games that have "confirmed" mantle support?

 

people don't do shit for free, most companies don't either

 

Yes, I think it's safe to say that this is like that.

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Yes, I think it's safe to say that this is like that.

*Was expecting fanboy hate, got agreement* yay!

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would love to see this coming to laptop too, not for gaming but media playback, it would eliminate the need for resource hungry SVP.

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oh didnt know Realtek made scalers

they make everything !

 

 

this is awesome news

industry standard ftw

 

 

gonna wait for next gen AMD cards and replace my 7 year old 1600p monitor with a 1440p 1.2a capable AH-IPS one 

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AMD: YEA MOTHERFUCKERS ITS FREESYNC ITS FREE YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA UNLIKE GSYNC WE CALL THIS MOTHER FREEEEEEEEEEEEE FREEE LIKE FREEEE WHILLY

You just need to buy a new monitor and possibly a new GPU to support it. But hey bitches, its free

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Is this kinda like "mantle support is coming!" with all those games that have "confirmed" mantle support?

 

people don't do shit for free, most companies don't either

Games that are still in development are still in development, news at 11. Mantle is a brand new API, games weren't just going to instantaneously appear with mantle support, it takes time. Remember how long it took for games to adopt dx10 and dx11?

 

A few more mantle games and it will probably have already surpassed dx10's adoption lol.

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AMD: YEA MOTHERFUCKERS ITS FREESYNC ITS FREE YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA UNLIKE GSYNC WE CALL THIS MOTHER FREEEEEEEEEEEEE FREEE LIKE FREEEE WHILLY

You just need to buy a new monitor and possibly a new GPU to support it. But hey bitches, its free

Its a hardware feature, of course it requires updated hardware, thanks captain obvious. Its freesync as in the technology is royalty free.

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AMD: YEA MOTHERFUCKERS ITS FREESYNC ITS FREE YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA UNLIKE GSYNC WE CALL THIS MOTHER FREEEEEEEEEEEEE FREEE LIKE FREEEE WHILLY

You just need to buy a new monitor and possibly a new GPU to support it. But hey bitches, its free

It is "free" because there is no licensing cost to the monitor manufacturer or the scalar manufacturer to implement support. Nobody said that it would cost nothing for the consumer. Stop being silly.

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Its a hardware feature, of course it requires updated hardware, thanks captain obvious. Its freesync as in the technology is royalty free.

 

 

It is "free" because there is no licensing cost to the monitor manufacturer or the scalar manufacturer to implement support. Nobody said that it would cost nothing for the consumer. Stop being silly.

 
Was the tone of my comment not enough to impart the heavy sarcastic tone? 
 
 

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I've seen so much idiotic crap being spouted about freesync on these forums, I've given up telling who's serious or joking.

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I've seen so much idiodic crap being spouted about freesync, I've given up telling who's serious or joking, either way your post was stupid.

 

Just because you take things too seriously doesn't negate my post. 

 

Were the all caps not enough to let you in on my tone? 

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Just because you take things too seriously doesn't negate my post. 

 

Were the all caps not enough to let you in on my tone? 

With the amount of ridiculous crap I've seen spouted on these forums about freesync and mantle, you can't really tell anymore :/

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Will this be available for Nvidia GPUs as well? If not, I guess I'm gonna pass.

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Games that are still in development are still in development, news at 11. Mantle is a brand new API, games weren't just going to instantaneously appear with mantle support, it takes time. Remember how long it took for games to adopt dx10 and dx11?

Not at all because I was a console gamer back them (oh the shame). As for being brand new, it's almost a year old as far as I can tell (downloaded it when I built my AMD APU machine last year just before christmas) and it still has the exact same games supported, and just an ever increasing list of games that are "coming".

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Will this be available for Nvidia GPUs as well? If not, I guess I'm gonna pass.

Depends if Nvidia adds support for it to their cards or not. The technology is royalty free VESA standard, wouldn't be difficult or costly for them to implement.

 

On one hand nvidia may find it advantageous to keep the market segmented and leverage gsync as another way to lock people into the nvidia platform, on the other hand if displayport adaptive sync manages to gain a lot of adoption (yet to be seen) nvidia could lose out on market share by not supporting it.

 

I hope nvidia decides to add support for it, this segmented market harms consumers. Having an adaptive sync solution that works on both platforms would be a godsend. No one wants to be locked down to one brand based on what monitor they own.

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