G-SYNC Review

[MikeyM]

First impressions:

It's smoother, but it's not $230 smoother. You can definitely tell when some places should have tearing but don't. I'm currently running a VG248QE@144Hz on a GTX 780@1GHz and really don't see that almost $300 difference in the experience. I believe that when Linus talks about it in every video he makes it seem "buttery-smooth", when in reality if your gaming experience isn't already "buttery-smooth" then you probably need to upgrade your hardware. This isn't going to provide a gigantic performance increase, playing at 30 FPS still feels like playing at 30 FPS, the frames feel slow. Playing at higher refresh rates feels much more... buttery in terms that the frames feel much smoother when turning. Before when rapidly turning in FPS Games I could see some visible double framing, which never seems to happen with G-Sync on. 

 

After some use: 

God awful back-light issue currently on the VG248QE. It seems to be that on a rare chance when you boot your computer, the back-light will begin to flicker and won't stop until you reboot. This also begins to happen randomly in the middle of games where the back-light will just stop for a brief second and give a black frame every couple of seconds. Quite annoying. It only happens on one of my three current monitors, two of which are VG248QE's, both have G-Sync. It happens to the primary display from what I've tested and toyed around with. Definitely a G-SYNC issue, I've never had this problem before I installed the module.

 

Overall impression: 

As somebody who owns both high end NVIDIA and AMD Cards (for various purposes), I can say that both technologies aren't worth their face value. Mantle doesn't provide that high of a performance increase and neither does G-SYNC. I myself would NOT buy a G-SYNC Monitor if it raises the current price of the monitor by $100+. The module itself and the experience isn't worth any more than that. I would value my current (two) VG248QE's at $350 each with G-Sync installed. It's not worth to go and rush out and buy this technology. This is just my two cents, some people may feel that those extra couple of frames every few minutes is worth a $225 investment into a new technology, I don't.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For you skeptics, here's my G-Sync receipt

[tp95112]

Seems like alot of reviewers have the same review as this. And all been about the price you pay for it and the experience isnt cut out as said to be

[MikeyM]

Seems like alot of reviewers have the same review as this. And all been about the price you pay for it and the experience isnt cut out as said to be

Definitely. I just don't simply notice a $300 difference, I'd rather throw that $300 into another pot for another GTX 780 and get far more performance benefit than the GSYNC chip.

 

I hope that monitor vendors can drive the price down at least under $150.00, otherwise I'm not even close to compelled to buy another monitor to complete my surround setup. (I believe the chip itself should be sold around $100.00, and ~$50 is a fair price to pay for somebody like BenQ to install and test every monitor with the chip)

[tp95112]

Definitely. I just don't simply notice a $300 difference, I'd rather throw that $300 into another pot for another GTX 780 and get far more performance benefit than the GSYNC chip.

 

I hope that monitor vendors can drive the price down at least under $150.00, otherwise I'm not even close to compelled to buy another monitor to complete my surround setup. (I believe the chip itself should be sold around $100.00, and ~$50 is a fair price to pay for somebody like BenQ to install and test every monitor with the chip)

The cost and labour is really whats going to push the price up significantly. 

[Vitalius]

To be fair, comparing this to Mantle isn't right. 

Mantle is still in Alpha. More optimization patches are coming. Whereas, AFAIK, G-Sync should be ready.

[wng_kingsley7]

Definitely. I just don't simply notice a $300 difference, I'd rather throw that $300 into another pot for another GTX 780 and get far more performance benefit than the GSYNC chip.

 

I hope that monitor vendors can drive the price down at least under $150.00, otherwise I'm not even close to compelled to buy another monitor to complete my surround setup.

that would be very nice however no new panel technologies have yet been designed and manufactured for Consumers to simply pick off the shelf and buy

g sync is quite the thing people are talking about however nvidia have their mind set on playing games with such larger resolutions up to 8K potentially of course but its not at a constant frames per second or frame rating which was the original reason g sync was created

although not every game or graphics card isnt tailored directly to a particular game engine or game in general the fps fluctuation would not be very viable to me for an immersive experience

OLED is yet to finally become common or niche to enthusiast pc gamers and what not

[Goldilock]

Definitely. I just don't simply notice a $300 difference, I'd rather throw that $300 into another pot for another GTX 780 and get far more performance benefit than the GSYNC chip.

 

I hope that monitor vendors can drive the price down at least under $150.00, otherwise I'm not even close to compelled to buy another monitor to complete my surround setup. (I believe the chip itself should be sold around $100.00, and ~$50 is a fair price to pay for somebody like BenQ to install and test every monitor with the chip)

 

Hey at least you can definitely see and measure the $300 benefit.

 

You need to pity those audiophile who like to spend +$500 on cable and still mocked by audio engineers as cave man.