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My Freesync monitor is working at 120Hrz with a GTX 980. WHAT!?!?

Skid McMarks
By Skid McMarks
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Long story short, someone bought me a 144Hrz Freesync monitor for Christmas without knowing it wasn't supported by Nvidia cards. I just figured i'd buy a AMD GPU later down the line, and when Nvidia announced that hey would be bringing Freesync support to 10 and 20 series cards i was hopeful that maybe there would be support for Maxwell down the line. However when messing around in Nvidia control panel today I noticed it gave me the option to change the refresh rate to 120Hrz. After switching it back and forth from 120Hrz to 60Hrz and testing it with https://www.testufo.com/ I confirmed my GTX 980 is, in fact, running at 120Hrz on a 144Hrz Freesync monitor. Did Nvidia already add support for some Freesync monitors before the announced driver compatibility update for them on January 15th? Why is this working?

 

My monitor is a ViewSonic VX2458-mhd

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You can run at higher refresh rates but you don't have adaptive sync capabilities so you could still get tearing.

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Dude... monitors are not made to work with only one brand of GPU's. You won't be able to use freesync on the monitor unless you get a 10/20 series nvidia card, or a AMD gpu. The adaptive sync isn't supported on the 9 series cards.

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There has never been anything stopping you from using an Nvidia GPU with a freesync monitor at higher refresh rates. You just won't get adaptive sync.

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