PC Perspective had an interview with Nvidia's Tom Petersen the other day. He did talk about G-Sync/Freesync a little bit.
A lot of people are asking if G-Sync is immaterial now that the open source/free of charge Freesync is out, especially as Adaptive Synd(the underlying tech behind both G/F-Sync) is standard in DP 1.3 and not just in DP 1.2a.
Tom Peterson basically said; no. We're not going to support Freesync. On the other hand, his no was not categorical. He also added "you should never say never". How you interpret this depends on your outlook and assumptions.
My assumption continues to be. Nvidia will continue to support G-Sync until it's no longer possible to do so. The fact that they keep the door ajar at all times indicates that they know that the risk is that Freesync will simply be a no-brainer and as such they may have to pivot.
What I wonder though, can you really disable support for Adaptive Sync in DP 1.3? Because if, say, Pascal GPUs have native DP 1.3 support and AS is built into DP 1.3, can Nvidia really change any of that? I'm guessing that they can, from his comments, but still, how does one go about it in more techical terms. Anyone knows?
Link to the exact section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHrSe0DtXHk#t=3247
A lot of people are asking if G-Sync is immaterial now that the open source/free of charge Freesync is out, especially as Adaptive Synd(the underlying tech behind both G/F-Sync) is standard in DP 1.3 and not just in DP 1.2a.
Tom Peterson basically said; no. We're not going to support Freesync. On the other hand, his no was not categorical. He also added "you should never say never". How you interpret this depends on your outlook and assumptions.
My assumption continues to be. Nvidia will continue to support G-Sync until it's no longer possible to do so. The fact that they keep the door ajar at all times indicates that they know that the risk is that Freesync will simply be a no-brainer and as such they may have to pivot.
What I wonder though, can you really disable support for Adaptive Sync in DP 1.3? Because if, say, Pascal GPUs have native DP 1.3 support and AS is built into DP 1.3, can Nvidia really change any of that? I'm guessing that they can, from his comments, but still, how does one go about it in more techical terms. Anyone knows?
Link to the exact section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHrSe0DtXHk#t=3247