Does adaptive sync work with invedia gpus?

[Bloudy_Parrot]

does it ? also why does it say ""adaptive sync/ free sync"" 

Edited January 4, 2021 by Bloudy_Parrot

[LOST TALE]

yes

[DailyProcrastinator]

Adaptive Sync is the technology that allows a monitor to match the FPS output in Hz, up until the monitors limit. For example if you output 80FPS on a 144Hz adaptive sync monitor, it would match that at 80Hz, if you spike to 130FPS the refresh rate will also be 130Hz, if you hit 160 FPS the limit would be 144Hz. This technology eliminates screen tearing, micro stuttering etc. There are two 'types' of adaptive sync technologies, AMD FreeSync and Nvidia G-Sync. 

 

As you can imagine, FreeSync is for AMD GPUs, and G-Sync is for Nvidia GPUs. So the real answer is both yes and no. Traditionally if you used an Nvidia GPU and AMD FreeSync panel, you would not have the benefit of adaptive sync. That said now many FreeSync Panel are listed as 'G-Sync Compatible' and even some that are not listed as compatible have reportedly worked with G-Sync enabled, but this is not a guarantee, others have not been able to do so. 

 

What monitor are you looking at?

[Middcore]

Short answer: yes

 

Long answer:

 

There are/were two standards for adaptive sync. Nvidia's G-Sync, which was a proprietary standard, and FreeSync, which was an open standard developed by AMD. G-sync had some marginal advantages over FreeSync but required special hardware inside the monitor to work, which made those displays expensive, and because it was a proprietary technology developed by Nvidia it only worked with Nvidia graphics cards. Since FreeSync was an open standard, Nvidia could have chosen to make their cards work with FreeSync monitors as well, but they preferred to make more money by trying to get people to buy into the G-sync standard instead. So essentially you had FreeSync monitors that only worked with AMD cards and G-sync monitors that only worke with Nvidia cards. 

 

After some years went by Nvidia sort of admitted defeat and allowed their cards to start working with the open FreeSync standard as well, but they would only certify select FreeSync monitors as "G-sync compatible" after testing them. In reality, many/most FreeSync monitors work fine with Nvidia cards now, not just the ones Nvidia certified as "compatible." Nvidia has also seemingly strong-armed monitor manufacturers into marketing their displays as only "G-sync compatible" or "adaptive sync" (which is a generic term) and not mentioning calling it FreeSync. Nvidia now calls the displays that have the old proprietary version of G-sync with the internal hardware component "G-sync Ultimate."