Truth about G-Sync ? - its a Adaptive-Sync with an Altera Security FPGAs

[cmdrdredd]

To me it appears to not be working and the control panel simply thinks it's active as others have said. I've seen g-sync in person and tearing like in that video tells me it's not on.

 

[tolis626]

I was THIS close to buying NVidia for the first time in a decade. But nope, they won't get my money with all of this crap coming to light, especially since I was considering a 970. And seeing NVidia's history (cheating in benchmarks, anyone?), I'm inclined to believe everything bad about them.

Anyway, on the topic at hand... From my, admittedly limited, knowledge on the matter, there is nothing that would prevent NVidia from supporting VESA's adaptive sync. Maybe the hardware wasn't there on Kepler ; big deal, I'd think they would fix this with Maxwell. No, the problems isn't the hardware. It's locking the competition out of their ecosystem. I absolutely hate NVidia for going that route, but it seems it's a viable business solution. People buy NVidia's stuff, so they keep doing what they're doing.

My 2 cents? They should somehow be taught a lesson. It's happened before, it can happen again. But for some reason, I'm not optimistic about it. Many people are so hellbent on buying only NVidia, even when their hardware is inferior (look at 580/680 vs 7970GHz) and are also happy paying a premium for it. I'm not saying "Buy AMD", for all I care they could be doing the same if they had, like, 80% of the market. It's just that the only ones losing (Well, apart from AMD) are the consumers here. We should have had adaptive sync a decade ago (Maybe I'm exaggerating but I don't care), but here we are in 2015 arguing about semantics.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I was THIS close to buying NVidia for the first time in a decade. But nope, they won't get my money with all of this crap coming to light, especially since I was considering a 970. And seeing NVidia's history (cheating in benchmarks, anyone?), I'm inclined to believe everything bad about them.

Lol I think you need more history lessons. Google ATI cheating in benchmarks.

 

[Black Octagon]

There's already a thread about this...

 

[3DVagabond]

I also would add, this also shows that with hacked drivers, A-sync monitors should be usable on Nvidia cards.

I hope that's true.

 

[3DVagabond]

Like I said, hacked drivers. With hacked drivers, you can circumvent that sort of restriction. They did it with PhysX in the past. Of course, someone has to figure out how to hack them, and find a way to hack it every time they release new drivers. Whether someone will go through the trouble for everyone is another story.

Or if people refuse to buy into nVidia's lock out scheme and don't buy unless they unlock their GPU's themselves.

 

[3DVagabond]

But thats not what they write.

So either both nVidia and AMD is full of lies. Or its gamenab thats full of it.

What is AMD lying about? Do you see any drivers that allow free-sync but are locked by AMD?

 

[Silverforce11]

From my, admittedly limited, knowledge on the matter, there is nothing that would prevent NVidia from supporting VESA's adaptive sync.

Exactly, they don't have to call it Freesync. It's via an open industry standard. They can call it whatever the heck they want.

The ONLY reason they refuse to go with it, is to maintain their profits by selling an extra module with a nice premium.

It's up to gamers to voice their views on whether its acceptable for NV to charge a premium on an open industry standard. People who defend this behavior will be the only ones hurt by it, via their wallets.

 

[Rvenger]

Duplicate thread - And I already noticed this became an AMD vs NVidia war. You guys just don't know how to agree to disagree I guess. Locked!


http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2419070


-Rvenger