AMD Freesync Review

Your not forced to do anything your forgetting g-sync/adaptive sync/freesync are not a requirement they are an optional technology at present. Your nvidia gpu would work perfectly with a non gsync monitor but if you decide you want to use the new technology you have the choice to buy a gsync one or swap gpu's and buy a freesync one.

That is the overriding thing people are overlooking and getting caught up in the nvidia should or shouldn't. It's not a prerequisite to owning an nvidia gpu it's an OPTIONAL extra.

Being a pre existing NVidia owner I think it is highly unfair that I can not take advantage of the cheaper Freesync monitors because I am forced to use G-Sync to get the same thing. This is far worse than anything Microsoft did with their browser as I could change that with a simple download and install.
 
Being a pre existing NVidia owner I think it is highly unfair that I can not take advantage of the cheaper Freesync monitors because I am forced to use G-Sync to get the same thing. This is far worse than anything Microsoft did with their browser as I could change that with a simple download and install.
Then surely the lesson here is to wait.. at least until VESA have finalised and released Adaptive-Sync, that way no one will feel butt hurt from being to quick to jump on the latest and greatest hardware gimmicks.
 
They are the same thing dude. FreeSync is basically just a certification process for marketing. The tech is the same because its using AS to work.
Well tickle my plumbs and colour me educated.. so it's just called Adaptive-Sync now then, seeing as VESA are the industry standard and all.
 
Well tickle my plumbs and colour me educated.. so it's just called Adaptive-Sync now then, seeing as VESA are the industry standard and all.

Technically, AMD are just using FreeSync because its like using the word "gaming" for marketing so people will identify it with AMD and gaming and etc. But yes the underneath of it all it is Adaptive-Sync.
 
You don't lose access to all your peripherals because you switched from Intel to AMD.
And because they use standardised PCIe connections, there are no problems using an NVIDIA GPU in an AMD system.
They're not doing anything proprietary to block that.

I bet though, that if NVidia were to buy/own Intel, the next generation Intel CPU chipset would only work with NVidia graphic cards.. :p
 
Good solid review. Not for me, I'm more of a G-Sync man but good to see AMD finally rolling this out. Just a shame it doesn't work on the 7990 because I may have been charitable and bought my wife a new monitor lol.

Cheers.
 
Good solid review. Not for me, I'm more of a G-Sync man but good to see AMD finally rolling this out. Just a shame it doesn't work on the 7990 because I may have been charitable and bought my wife a new monitor lol.

Cheers.

How can you be more of one or the other when the end result is the exact same thing?:huh:
 
:lol: almost thought it was in reference to the wife. Who on Earth calls what they give to their wife charity... that is just an awful thing to say, even if it was a joke.

Though apparently Nvidias G-sync does have some minor benefits (though nothing Adaptive sync wont be able to do eventually) I.E no ghosting etc etc.
 
:lol: almost thought it was in reference to the wife. Who on Earth calls what they give to their wife charity... that is just an awful thing to say, even if it was a joke.

Though apparently Nvidias G-sync does have some minor benefits (though nothing Adaptive sync wont be able to do eventually) I.E no ghosting etc etc.

I think AS does as well.. Not sure as i haven't looked into that side of it much. I do know that with AS/FS you can have it turned on along with V-Sync which has some benefits too. I don't think GS has that iirc. If i had to choose(even though my GPU won't work with either) it would be FS simply because its cheaper and has a better chance of lasting longer due to open source and does not depend on AMD making scalar chips for monitors. Just requires them to make GPUs. Nothing wrong with GS, more of the company that is behind it and the execution though.
 
Im pretty sure the ghosting does occur on the FS monitors, however Im more than happy to be wrong, as I am trying to get rid of my 980s at the moment and I would rather get FS/AS. FS/AS definitely has a better chance of surviving in the market, as it is a standard, as opposed to Nvidias Gsync. Frankly the biggest reason I want to get FS/AS and offload my 980s is because of the variety of monitors that will support it, as opposed to Gsync where only a select few will support it, of course FS/AS doesnt have a big range either at the moment, however it will increase rather quickly.

Its also possible that Nvidia may adopt AS, however slim that possibility may be.
 
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How can you be more of one or the other when the end result is the exact same thing?:huh:

Because

1. I don't own a GPU capable of Freesync.
2. I don't own a monitor capable of Freesync.
3. I own a G-Sync monitor and two Titan Blacks.

So obviously I'm more of a G-Sync man, given I can't use Freesync.

+1 This

It's just the same thing with a different name

No it isn't. One uses a custom ASIC the other one uses nothing but software. Now if you mean they both achieve the same thing? then yes, that would be correct but they're not the same because if they were I would be able to hook up an AMD card to my monitor and use Freesync.
 
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