AMD "FreeSync" Interview with Robert Hallock (Thracks) Answers Compatibility Questions

[Tam3n]

I got R9 290s - Yay!

 

Wait, I just bought PB278Q few months back. So I would need to buy yet new monitor if I wanted to take advantage of this... No thanks, not now. Maybe in the future when it's time to go for the 4k...

 

I think that many who are disappointed with their card not having the required display controller on their cards wouldn't buy a new monitor any time soon regardless.

[Fetzie]

I got R9 290s - Yay!

 

Wait, I just bought PB278Q few months back. So I would need to buy yet new monitor if I wanted to take advantage of this... No thanks, not now. Maybe in the future when it's time to go for the 4k...

 

I think that many who are disappointed with their card not having the required display controller on their cards wouldn't buy a new monitor any time soon regardless.

 

I think that most people buy a new monitor when their old one breaks, which can be 5-6 years in the future (so perhaps 1-2 new system builds).

[Boon]

I think you don't get the implications of this. AMD has all but said that this is a closed standard. Which means Nvidia G-Sync and A-Sync are going to be seperate technologies that you will have to buy based on your GPU. In other Nvidia users will still have to pay a ton for G-Sync.

 

I thought it would be adopted by Nvidia in it's future cards so that users have the option of both. For those who really want the finer detail, G-sync probably could give  a better experience; but at a higher cost. 

But I thought AMD's Free Sync was open standard too?

[JackieTran]

That would be on nVidia to support it. The mechanism is an industry standard, but the way that the graphics card interacts with that mechanism is up to the graphics card chipset manufacturer to implement.

 

I see. 

 

So I'm guessing the 6xx and 7xx models won't with it right?

[Humbug]

I thought it would be adopted by Nvidia in it's future cards so that users have the option of both. For those who really want the finer detail, G-sync probably could give  a better experience; but at a higher cost.

???

[LOLPhilips]

Yarrrrr,

 

I'll wait for reviews when both technologies are readily available.

Cause Biased interviews like these answer no questions at all. Its always just.

 

"How does your (brand) solution stack up to (brand) solution ??"

"Oh its way better"

 

All I see answered is what cards are supported and we already new this.

he didn't even answer the disadvantages question.

 

Its like AOC and Philips recently did when they said G-Sync is much better.

They didn't say why either.

 

Lets be honest they had their monitors with G-Sync as good as ready.

And this is just bashing each other.

 

Edit: mentioned the wrong monitor manufacturers.

[Fetzie]

I see. 

 

So I'm guessing the 6xx and 7xx models won't with it right?

 

Highly unlikely that you'll see it on the 6xx and 7xx cards, and I wouldn't bet on the GTX 8xx series supporting it either.

[Boon]

???

 

Well it's stated in the article that monitors coming out in 6-12 months time will have the 1.2a HDMI Port available. It probably won't change the cost noticeably either.

The Free Sync doesn't require new hardware, the monitors will have the hardware capabilities without having to modify it yourself (like g-sync in its current state). Free Sync ("Adaptive Sync") just changes the way which GPU's and monitors sync with one another.

 

Sure only some of the nest ATI cards support this, however it is an open standard with VESA and Nvidia will most likely have to bend over and adapt the new ports to there futures cards to remain competitive with ATI's costing.

I wouldn't buy a special G-sync monitor that would only work with Nvidia cards when ATI offer their cards to do the same job without the premium price for a G-Sync monitor. It will probably become futile as these new 1.2a monitors come out (imo).

[Fetzie]

Well it's stated in the article that monitors coming out in 6-12 months time will have the 1.2a HDMI Port available. It probably won't change the cost noticeably either.

The Free Sync doesn't require new hardware, the monitors will have the hardware capabilities without having to modify it yourself (like g-sync in its current state). Free Sync ("Adaptive Sync") just changes the way which GPU's and monitors sync with one another.

 

Sure only some of the nest ATI cards support this, however it is an open standard with VESA and Nvidia will most likely have to bend over and adapt the new ports to there futures cards to remain competitive with ATI's costing.

I wouldn't buy a special G-sync monitor that would only work with Nvidia cards when ATI offer their cards to do the same job without the premium price for a G-Sync monitor. It will probably become futile as these new 1.2a monitors come out (imo).

 

I think he was asking for you to substantiate your claim that "For those who really want the finer detail, G-sync probably could give  a better experience; but at a higher cost."

[LOLPhilips]

I think he was asking for you to substantiate your claim that "For those who really want the finer detail, G-sync probably could give  a better experience; but at a higher cost."

 

I think he meant "finer detail" as in within the game ?? Better graphics ? I'm not sure either.

 

But who cares what he meant, he's still talking about ATI, and that name hasn't been used for a while

[Humbug]

So why did you say that g-sync could probably provide a better experience?

[Boon]

So why did you say that g-sync could probably provide a better experience?

 

probably could

 

This is based on the fact that the G-sync Modules/hardware used in the monitors are designed by Nvidia and that only the 'G-Sync' features are available to those who use Nvidia cards. The new G-Sync monitors will probably cost as much as new high end cards.

Who knows how good the new Monitor hardware is to be honest, I would have no clue how to benchmark that. All I know is that the frequency clock (w/e it's called) inside are variable instead of fixed now, probably in that special 'Nvidia' way too >.<

You would generally assume (particularly a company that holds itself as high as Nvidia does) that they have spent a lot of time preparing and tuning this feature so that it can deliver at the highest quality. Of course there's probably a premium attached to that too.

 

But who cares what he meant, he's still talking about ATI, and that name hasn't been used for a while

 

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