Only certain new Radeons will work with FreeSync

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With the release of the R9 285 yesterday many review sites found out something startling, something which OC3D has long ago know and even reported on. What surprised many was the fact that AMD's "Freesync" display will only work with certain AMD GPUs while gaming.

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Read more on AMD's FreeSync here.
 
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Dicehunter said:
That's kind of disappointing considering on the Nvidia side all cards from the 650 Ti Boost and up support it.
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Because GSync is already available. FreeSync is still in developement, current video cards will be outdated when it's released... so there's little to no problem with this
 
Agost said:
Because GSync is already available. FreeSync is still in developement, current video cards will be outdated when it's released... so there's little to no problem with this
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Sure, everybody who has an r9 2xx card will upgrade before freesync releases.
 
What I'm loving is that I reported on this in July and everybody else thinks this is new news!

Just shows how many news writers don't read the source material fully
 
"R9 295X2, 290X, R9 290, R7 260X, R7 260 or newer GPUs." Pretty much cuts out some of the most popular AMD cards, namely the 270x (7870) and the 280+280x (7950and 7970). Solid job AMD. I know their most popular current gen card appears to be the 290 (from what I can see ) but thats still pretty dumb.
 
SeekaX said:
Sure, everybody who has an r9 2xx card will upgrade before freesync releases.
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VESA is going to add FreeSync support to the 1.2a iteration of DP. Are HD7000 series GPUs compatible with DP 1.2a?

Watsyerproblem said:
What I'm loving is that I reported on this in July and everybody else thinks this is new news!

Just shows how many news writers don't read the source material fully
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Actually there are articles about this since May.
 
barnsley said:
"R9 295X2, 290X, R9 290, R7 260X, R7 260 or newer GPUs." Pretty much cuts out some of the most popular AMD cards, namely the 270x (7870) and the 280+280x (7950and 7970). Solid job AMD. I know their most popular current gen card appears to be the 290 (from what I can see ) but thats still pretty dumb.
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I'm not sure how you could have expected AMD to make it work on older tech. It's a hardware limitation.
 
I am still wondering if Freesync will even work properly in games. Since it predicts when the next frame will come, Freesync will work great with constant framerates, but how about changing framerates? There will either be an extra (constant) delay or stutter when the framerate is changing.
 
Is freesync going to require specific monitors like G-Sync? If so thats just a let down as thats one thing that really pisses me off about g-sync. And the fact that thebonly monitor I know that supports it is the Asus and it costs top $$.

I have a R9 290x matrix platinum so assuming no additional hardware is going to be required this is going to be awesome once released.
 
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