Free Sync working on laptop?

[AfroLedgend]

How does one set up FreeSync to work on a laptop?

[Tmh85]

I don't think FreeSync is even a real thing or is consumer available...

[AfroLedgend]

I don't think FreeSync is even a real thing or is consumer available...

They had it running on a Lenovo laptop at their announcement event.

[Tmh85]

They had it running on a Lenovo laptop at their announcement event.

Yes but that was only a demo and it is not yet consumer available (Doubt it ever will be honestly)

[AfroLedgend]

Yes but that was only a demo and it is not yet consumer available (Doubt it ever will be honestly)

But the point I'm trying to make is that laptops and other mobile devices (tablets) may already support it and just need the software implementation; Anand's article explains it a lot better than I can "According to AMD, there’s been a push to bring variable refresh rate display panels to mobile for a while now" .... "There’s apparently already a VESA standard for controlling VBLANK intervals. The GPU’s display engine needs to support it, as do the panel and display hardware itself. If all of the components support this spec however, then you can get what appears to be the equivalent of G-Sync without any extra hardware."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7641/amd-demonstrates-freesync-free-gsync-alternative-at-ces-2014

[Tmh85]

But the point I'm trying to make is that laptops and other mobile devices (tablets) may already support it and just need the software implementation; Anand's article explains it a lot better than I can "According to AMD, there’s been a push to bring variable refresh rate display panels to mobile for a while now" .... "There’s apparently already a VESA standard for controlling VBLANK intervals. The GPU’s display engine needs to support it, as do the panel and display hardware itself. If all of the components support this spec however, then you can get what appears to be the equivalent of G-Sync without any extra hardware."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7641/amd-demonstrates-freesync-free-gsync-alternative-at-ces-2014

I still don't get how that proves that you can use Freesync

[yourdietsucks]

But the point I'm trying to make is that laptops and other mobile devices (tablets) may already support it and just need the software implementation; Anand's article explains it a lot better than I can "According to AMD, there’s been a push to bring variable refresh rate display panels to mobile for a while now" .... "There’s apparently already a VESA standard for controlling VBLANK intervals. The GPU’s display engine needs to support it, as do the panel and display hardware itself. If all of the components support this spec however, then you can get what appears to be the equivalent of G-Sync without any extra hardware."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7641/amd-demonstrates-freesync-free-gsync-alternative-at-ces-2014

 

there's no way of knowing the hardware compatibility with freesync right now. when more details surface, we will have a better understanding of it.

[BrightCandle]

Its going to be at least a year before we see this technology out there. Has to go through a standardisation process first, then the monitor manufacturers need to actually make monitors supporting it. All that takes a lot of time.