""adaptive sync/ free sync""

[Bloudy_Parrot]

what is ""adaptive sync/ free sync""  on a asus monitor?

[jaslion]

Exactly that adaptive refresh rate. Just like nvidia gsync. Your monitor matches your gpu's output framerate (within a certain range) to avoid tearing and have a smoother gaming experience at lower fps.

[minibois]

Just now, Bloudy_Parrot said:

what is ""adaptive sync/ free sync""  on a asus monitor?

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/free-sync

It syncs the fps of your game and the Hz (refresh rate) of your monitor, so you won't experience tearing (when the top and bottom half of your monitor have a different frame visible on them).

 

AMD Freesync relies on the open adaptive sync standard, Nvidia videocards can nowadays also make use of it, but sometimes with a lesser degree of success.

Here is a list of monitors from nvidia and how well they work: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/g-sync-monitors/specs/

G-Sync compatible = Freesync

[Oshino Shinobu]

It's an adaptive refresh rate technology. It helps smooth gameplay and prevent tearing in a certain FPS range by matching the monitor to the GPU. Typically, the range is from around 30 to the monitor's maximum refresh rate.

 

FreeSync is AMD's implementation, which is based on Adaptive Sync, which is a VESA standard initially built into the DisplayPort standard. 

 

Nvidia has now at least enabled support for Free/Adaptive Sync, though how well it work really depends. They have a list of GSync compatible monitors which have been tested to meet certain minimum requirements. Just because a monitor isn't on the list doesn't mean it doesn't work though. 

[Middcore]

Why are you posting the same question on multiple subforums? Copied and pasted from your other thread:

 

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."