Refresh Rates

[Hiro Hamada]

Hi

In a gaming monitor, can an AMD Freesync support a nvidea card and a nvidea g sync support an amd card?

[Princess Luna]

This has nothing to do with refresh rate, this is just adaptive sync.

 

The answer is no you have to have matching cards/displays.

[minibois]

Either videocard brand will work on a monitor with either's frame syncing technology, just without said sync technology (Freesync/G-sync) enabled.

[Hiro Hamada]

3 minutes ago, Minibois said:

Either videocard brand will work on a monitor with either's frame syncing technology, just without said sync technology (Freesync/G-sync) enabled.

So you are saying that a monitor having an AMD freesync will not give me a smooth fps while I use an nvidea card on it?

[Hiro Hamada]

7 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

This has nothing to do with refresh rate, this is just adaptive sync.

 

The answer is no you have to have matching cards/displays.

Sorry I didnt know. Well is adaptive sync necessary for a 1080p gaming at 144 fps for a buttery smooth gaming?

[minibois]

Just now, Hiro Hamada said:

So you are saying that a monitor having an AMD freesync will not give me a smooth fps while I use an nvidea card on it?

Not at all what I was saying.

1. A monitor displays images, 60 times a second.. 144 times a second, or whatever Hz it is. It will do this with whatever videocard.

2. What G-sync and Freesync aim to do is making it so the videocard sending a frame and the monitor refreshing to a new frame are lined up, so you don't have the videocard sending two frames to the monitor in one interval; so the monitor has a different top and bottom portion of a frame. This is what causes tearing; example:

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Using an AMD card with a G-sync display, or Nvidia card with a Freesync display will allow you to do point 1., but not point 2.

2 minutes ago, Hiro Hamada said:

Sorry I didnt know. Well is adaptive sync necessary for a 1080p gaming at 144 fps for a buttery smooth gaming?

It's not necessarily needed, but will help in situations where your fps is not very solid (e.g. if your fps is going from 60 to 45 to 60 again, etc. you will experience more tearing).

I have an AMD card and Freesync monitor and experience no tearing (partially due to tweaking settings so I don't have drops in fps), but I don't think it's much of a selling feature (maybe in games where you can get higher fps suddenly, like 'eSports games', that just run easier)

[Hiro Hamada]

58 minutes ago, Minibois said:

Not at all what I was saying.

1. A monitor displays images, 60 times a second.. 144 times a second, or whatever Hz it is. It will do this with whatever videocard.

2. What G-sync and Freesync aim to do is making it so the videocard sending a frame and the monitor refreshing to a new frame are lined up, so you don't have the videocard sending two frames to the monitor in one interval; so the monitor has a different top and bottom portion of a frame. This is what causes tearing; example:

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Using an AMD card with a G-sync display, or Nvidia card with a Freesync display will allow you to do point 1., but not point 2.

It's not necessarily needed, but will help in situations where your fps is not very solid (e.g. if your fps is going from 60 to 45 to 60 again, etc. you will experience more tearing).

I have an AMD card and Freesync monitor and experience no tearing (partially due to tweaking settings so I don't have drops in fps), but I don't think it's much of a selling feature (maybe in games where you can get higher fps suddenly, like 'eSports games', that just run easier)

I was seaeching and I found a quantum dot tech monitor and I am using a nvidea 1070Ti card. So will I experience tearing? I mean it has AMD Freesync