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Why can't you use GSync on 900 series cards? It doesn't make any sense to me.

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Go to solution Solved by Oshino Shinobu,

The 980 Ti does support GSync. 

 

Doesn't support GSync compatible/adaptive sync. Only reason for that is money really, makes people buy new cards. I won't use Nvidia anymore because they have an arbitrary lock on their GeForce series cards to 4 monitors, despite them physically being able to support more, it just pushes you towards their professional cards, or in my case AMD, who has no such lock.

As a 980 Ti user I was pretty disappointed to find out that there is no Maxwell support for GSync. My monitor supports GSync and I was all excited to use it after picking it up used, only to find that NVIDIA locked that part down. What possible reason is there for there to be no GSync for the 900 series?

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980 Ti can use G-Sync, but not Freesync a.k.a Gsync-Compatible. 

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2 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

980 Ti can use G-Sync, but not Freesync a.k.a Gsync-Compatible. 

Really? I couldn't find it anywhere in NVIDIA Control Panel and when looking it up I was told Maxwell didn't have G-Sync.

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The 980 Ti does support GSync. 

 

Doesn't support GSync compatible/adaptive sync. Only reason for that is money really, makes people buy new cards. I won't use Nvidia anymore because they have an arbitrary lock on their GeForce series cards to 4 monitors, despite them physically being able to support more, it just pushes you towards their professional cards, or in my case AMD, who has no such lock.

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1 minute ago, wavem2 said:

Really? I couldn't find it anywhere in NVIDIA Control Panel and when looking it up I was told Maxwell didn't have G-Sync.

600 series and later support native G-Sync (displays with the actual G-Sync hardware in them) but not enabling G-sync on a Freesync display

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2 minutes ago, wavem2 said:

Really? I couldn't find it anywhere in NVIDIA Control Panel and when looking it up I was told Maxwell didn't have G-Sync.

650Ti Boost and higher support GSync (with a GSync monitor)

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/geforce/products/g-sync-monitors/g-sync-hdr-requirements/

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2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

The 980 Ti does support GSync. 

 

Doesn't support GSync compatible/adaptive sync. Only reason for that is money really, makes people buy new cards. I won't use Nvidia anymore because they have an arbitrary lock on their GeForce series cards to 4 monitors, despite them physically being able to support more, it just pushes you towards their professional cards, or in my case AMD, who has no such lock.

Damn, that's a disappointment. My card's a half decade old but it was fucking expensive back in 2015.

 

And four monitors? Never heard that one, that's even more ridiculous. There's five outputs on the back of my card, I'd expect to be able to use all 5 for a monitor, no?

 

I have a bad history with AMD and their driver support, so if it really has improved, then I feel compelled to choose AMD for my next GPU. That's why I'm NVIDIA now, a lot of old Terascale cards just being left deprecated because of bad drivers scared me away from AMD for a good while.

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No, one of those outputs is shared with the other, no doubt.

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