Is G-sync worth it?

[ArcticApe]

Hello!

I'm in the market for a new monitor. 1080p, 1440 hurts for me. Does G-sync do anything but combat screen tearing? How likely am I to encoutner that on a 3060? Thx!

[GeorgeMKane]

14 minutes ago, ArcticApe said:

Hello!

I'm in the market for a new monitor. 1080p, 1440 hurts for me. Does G-sync do anything but combat screen tearing? How likely am I to encoutner that on a 3060? Thx!

I have a 3060 and I just enable VSYNC globally, through the NVIDIA Control Panel. No G-Sync needed here.

[RONOTHAN##]

it's not really that big a deal. I've run G Sync monitors for years, and I've had a glitch in the Nvidia driver where G-Sync gets disabled once in a while. Didn't even notice it was disabled for like 3 months. If you have it, might as well enable it, but just getting a high refresh rate panel is enough and if it significantly increases the price it's not really worth it.

 

That said, even some of the cheapest monitors today are G Sync compatible/Freesync, so you might as well get one with it.

[ErykYT3]

I have two in front of me and tbh I don't even know if they're on. 

They seem to function as well as my old primary display without it did imo so it'll probably come down to your use case and how relevant it is to the visibility of tearing, etc.

[Stahlmann]

As long as there is VRR, i wouldn't care too much about if it's G-Sync, FreeSync or something else.

 

Since i started using G-Sync years ago screen tearing was a fixed issue for me. Never saw it ever since.