sounds like alot of good things happening for the gaming community i may go team red once the new cards are revealed

this is exciting news. looking forward for future reviews.

They should make WQHD models too... but the question remains, will they be able to keep the release date this time? And how expensive will it be?

Mistake...not even close. First there was VHS and BETAMAX. BETA was the superior format but lost out to VHS. Then there was LaserDisc and DVD came and trounced that. But LaserDisc was out for a good while before DVD appeared. Then most recently there was HD DVD and BluRay. BluRay won that battle. G-SYNC was announced and now on the market. FreeSync is still nowhere to be seen. If a FreeSync demo existed, there would have been talk here about how the two techs compared. Sadly there is not even a demo yet. So to say the early G-SYNC adopters blew it has yet to be seen. Retail is fickle. Until the techs can be seen side-by-side no mistakes can be made. It is impossible. This is exciting news but no one knows how this will play out. If I had an Nvidia card, there would be no hesitation on grabbing a G-SYNC enabled monitor. Why, because it exists and AMD's version is still unproven.

Mistake...not even close. First there was VHS and BETAMAX. BETA was the superior format but lost out to VHS. Then there was LaserDisc and DVD came and trounced that. But LaserDisc was out for a good while before DVD appeared. Then most recently there was HD DVD and BluRay. BluRay won that battle. G-SYNC was announced and now on the market. FreeSync is still nowhere to be seen. If a FreeSync demo existed, there would have been talk here about how the two techs compared. Sadly there is not even a demo yet. So to say the early G-SYNC adopters blew it has yet to be seen. Retail is fickle. Until the techs can be seen side-by-side no mistakes can be made. It is impossible. This is exciting news but no one knows how this will play out. If I had an Nvidia card, there would be no hesitation on grabbing a G-SYNC enabled monitor. Why, because it exists and AMD's version is still unproven.

I don't see how those examples are relevant. Unless you can't play porn on freesync monitors and can play on gsync monitors :P

Examples were given to show that just because there is competing tech, there is no guarantee that the better tech will prevail. It also gives insight that early adopters get to enjoy whatever tech is released longer and like the video examples, the market will decide which survives and which dies regardless of quality. EDIT: Just like DVD and BluRay still share the market, G-SYNC and FreeSync could just end up existing side-by-side for as long as the tech survives.

Cant help but pity those who jumped into the G sync camp thinking there doing the right thing. How foolish they must feel after reading this thread. I know I would hate myself if I blew a tone of cash on tech that's obsolete 6 mths after release.. Well it don't pay to be loyal I hope this will teach them a lesson.

I for one had zero intention going with freesync, I waited a long time for g-sync & I'm over the moon with it. As for spending a "tone of cash" well I personally can afford it very easily we're called pc enthusiasts & its an expencive hobby. Also "tech that's obsolete 6 mths after release.." everything in a new build is obsolete after 6 months or so its been that way from day 1 with pc components,If you want to keep up you have to spend money simple as that. Now you learnt a lesson about the pc enthusiasts market.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=27210099&postcount=86 Look like 2 IPS monitors are coming too from LG in the start of the year.

Hopefully LG will bring something in the 21-23" range... Some of these manufacturers seem to be forgetting that some of us can't fit 26" and larger displays on our desks....

Apparently FreeSync supports 9-240 While Gsync supports 30-240 Hz. Huh.

Below 30Hz the LCD panel might not be able to refresh that slow without having some artifacts (side effects) creep in such as fading or color shifts. It could refresh the frame twice, however. No idea why G-Sync didn't just double the refresh rate as FPS fell below 30FPS (but remained above 15FPS) by refreshing twice, but I doubt any FPS below 30FPS will benefit from being displayed in sync with the GPU anyways. Not sure the range will make any difference to either technology if the LCD panel can't handle going that low. Nvidia explained that they had to make a special ASIC scaler chip in order to handle variable refresh rate as there exists no such scaler chip in a monitor yet. Nvidia's G-Sync module does overdrive algorithm calculations as the refresh rate varies since the pixels respond differently. This is done to avoid any pixel response-related artifacts from appearing. AMD haven't yet discussed this topic. The scalers that are manufactured according to the VESA spec will have to pretty much act the same way as Nvidia's G-Sync module, sans the polling (which AMD mentions as an advantage though I'm not sure how relevant polling is to the smoothness equation with such technologies), with regards to how it treats the LCD display panel. How it interfaces with the graphics card will be different given one is a proprietary technology that works on Nvidia graphics cards while the other is part of the DisplayPort spec that can be implemented by any hardware that supports variable V-BLANK and other necessary tidbits to enable variable refresh rate in general.

Apparently FreeSync supports 9-240 While Gsync supports 30-240 Hz. Huh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI_gzkZqrrc&list=UU-DHaOYimgUCuQG1yGlRWpw [0:51] "It's not G-Sync, its the panel..." :flip2:

I would rather have a 24" 1080p OLED

I can't help but think, how can this be better than a purpose built seperate device... I'll believe it when I see it that free-sync is as effective as g-sync. Unless these monitors are 120hz or above, it's going to make them rather useless for gaming, what Free and g sync are essencially designed for.

Funny thing is that some people preferring AMD cards instantly bash on NV 🙄 It's not like the NV owners could go onto Fsync later on, so there is no mistake in paying extra to get it, since it already comes down and should be a part of the decision of which GPU you get for your rig. I hope the Fsync monitors come around march for real, so the monitor market sees a little bit of change too 🙂

Nvidia has to support freesync eventually. If not... I don't think that it makes sense not to.

IPS! Yeah Nvidia will support it at some point. They would be crazy not to. Cause freesync(adaptive sync) will be the cheaper one for everyone to enjoy, buying freesync display shouldn't really limit what card you can use like g-sync does unless nvidia decides to steer away from that O.o

I can't help but think, how can this be better than a purpose built seperate device... I'll believe it when I see it that free-sync is as effective as g-sync. Unless these monitors are 120hz or above, it's going to make them rather useless for gaming, what Free and g sync are essencially designed for.

No they are designed for to give you smooth image with no tearing at almost all Hz ranges. So it does not matter if you have 60hz or 120hz with 60fps or 120fps it should be smooth. People that get to 120fps and 144fps on displays that support comparative hz are getting really smooth experience already.

I agree that Fsync (or Async) is actually the better technology in terms of how it influences the market and general level of technology. Yet I don't see NV supporting it, because they'd lose money on the Gsync cash cow. Anybody believing that NV will support it is being optimistic 🙂

They will support it after gsync sales start to diminish me thinks. Or they will add support for freesync yet market g-sync as better alternative as a premium product of sorts.

No they are designed for to give you smooth image with no tearing at almost all Hz ranges. So it does not matter if you have 60hz or 120hz with 60fps or 120fps it should be smooth. People that get to 120fps and 144fps on displays that support comparative hz are getting really smooth experience already.

What I was trying to say is that, the image wouldn't be anywhere near as clear at 60hz, therefor not good for gaming. Personally I just can't see a damn thing at 60hz. 144hz with g-sync @ 1440p is something to behold, I'll tell you that much. 🙂

Nvidia have been really tight lips about what do exactly this board...

they talked about it to some extent though, so you get the general idea.