Perfect comparison. If $200 is a lot of money when you are forking over that much to begin with, perhaps you are spending out of budget for hardware.
terrible comparison. There is no difference between the two except price. Also, your simile is terrible too, because who there is no upgrade from a 980ti. $200 is a bunch of money. You know how many games that would have gotten you last week?
G-sync is rubbish. I had expected nvidia to start supporting adaptive sync with the 970 and 980 but they didn't (and nobody bashed them like they did with amd lacking hdmi 2.0)
G-sync locks you to nvidia. You pay $200 more and then your monitor can't use a major feature if you want to switch. The only problem with freesync in this regard is nvidias contempt for technology that benefits gamers without a direct path for profit for them (therefore artificially limtied to AMD GPUs for now). So it may be a while before they start supporting it. They will though. That kind of premium is silly and they cannot compete with an open standard. What they are doing right now is milking buyers silly enough to pay the extra money. When the selection of adaptive sync monitors explodes even further they will have no choice.
2 years maybe. Hard to tell because it really doesn't seem like people apply logic to nvidia products. They might get away with not supporting adaptive sync for a while. The future of G-sync is ultimately less certain.
Freesync is not completely driver based, but yeah software can improve it. Same with G-sync I would think. The major crucial difference is just the nature of each. G-sync cannot last. It was a doomed cash grab from the start.
Also it does seem g-sync monitors only have display port. Seems usually just the one.
It's not a lie, it's completely true, freesync only works on amd, gsync only on nvidia.
I think this is information is more relevant to the OP than the question whether the vendor lock is artificial or not (it probably is). Maybe nvidia will also support freesync one day, but that's not something I'd count on.
If everybody bought Freesync, Nvidia would release a Driver in a week to support it.
You assume the hardware supports it. Neither nVidia or Intel seems to support it with current hardware.
There is a reaosn why all AMD hardware doesnt support freesync. Including the R7 370.
If Nvidia can technically support both, and AMD can only support one of these technologies, which should I, as a customer, purchase? The one with more potential or the one with less potential?
The one with all the Potential, the Open Standards one.
I suspect that what we'll eventually see is the two companies (and VESA) coming together to create a Freesync 2.0 that combines G-Sync and the current Freesync into a single standard, with all the advantages of both. AMD fans will get to crow that their company's business approach won out. Nvidia fans will get to crow that the new standard owes more to G-Sync than the original Freesync. And Intel graphics users will just be glad that their gaming performance doesn't look quite as bad as it actually is. Everyone wins!
Which one is that? The one that supports its own technologies plus everything else I'm assuming?
I think that would fall under the "all" category.
The claim was made "vendor locked". That claim is untrue. nVidia chooses to not support it (yet). That is not a vendor lock.
Nobody is arguing that it runs on nVidia. That is a strawman.
Which one is that? The one that supports its own technologies plus everything else I'm assuming?
I think that would fall under the "all" category.
I suspect that what we'll eventually see is the two companies (and VESA) coming together to create a Freesync 2.0 that combines G-Sync and the current Freesync into a single standard, with all the advantages of both. AMD fans will get to crow that their company's business approach won out. Nvidia fans will get to crow that the new standard owes more to G-Sync than the original Freesync. And Intel graphics users will just be glad that their gaming performance doesn't look quite as bad as it actually is. Everyone wins!
Look up the definition of vendor locked. It fits the definition, whether or not Nvidia can or cannot support it. Nvidia does not support it, so that is all that matters.
You nor I can use it, no matter how open the standard is.
You assume the hardware supports it. Neither nVidia or Intel seems to support it with current hardware.
There is a reaosn why all AMD hardware doesnt support freesync. Including the R7 370.
I wonder if Intel iGPUs are going to go onto a variable refresh technology? VESA Adaptive Sync? Their own tech?