HDMI 2.1 VRR support will come to AMD Radeon RX GPUs with a future driver update

[WYP]

AMD is willing to support VRR technology outside of their FreeSync ecosystem.



Read more about AMD's commitment to supporting HDMI 2.1 VRR support.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Good thing to hear. The sooner we get away from 2 ecosystems to one standard is a good thing

 

[cj09bruno]

Good thing to hear. The sooner we get away from 2 ecosystems to one standard is a good thing

this wont change much as freesync was already open, so the only thing that changes is the name, nvidea will keep pushing g-sync

 

[grec]

this wont change much as freesync was already open, so the only thing that changes is the name, nvidea will keep pushing g-sync

NVidia has to refuse to adopt HDMI2.1 if they don't want their GPUs to have a built in free alternative to G-Sync. They can probably hold off adoption for a year or so(Doesn't look like they'll have any truly new gaming GPUs in that time given Volta is just a compute-orientated spin on Pascal) but likely not much longer than that. Like many of NVidia's "features" past and present it will soon be destined for the history books due to their proprietary nature(And general lack of reason to have ever existed in such a form).

 

[AngryGoldfish]

NVidia has to refuse to adopt HDMI2.1 if they don't want their GPUs to have a built in free alternative to G-Sync. They can probably hold off adoption for a year or so(Doesn't look like they'll have any truly new gaming GPUs in that time given Volta is just a compute-orientated spin on Pascal) but likely not much longer than that. Like many of NVidia's "features" past and present it will soon be destined for the history books due to their proprietary nature(And general lack of reason to have ever existed in such a form).

I dunno. Nvidia has such a stranglehold on the market, they somewhat call the shots. While Intel still holds the largest GPU market, the people that use Intel's onboard graphics aren't going to be using VRR in any capacity or particularly care about it. Unless AMD's new Pinnacle Ridge APUs and Intel's new Vega-equipped models absolutely dominate even among those who like to be at the top of their gaming... game, I don't see G-Sync falling away fall a while. Even if Nvidia did adopt VRR with HDMI 2.1 with their next GeForce cards, G-Sync could still be prominent for many gamers.