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topgear

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a little info on G-Sync monitors :D
Nvidia G-Sync Syncs Screen Refresh Rate To GPU For Super-Smooth Gaming
 

topgear

Super Moderator
Staff member
a little info on G-Sync monitors :D
Nvidia G-Sync Syncs Screen Refresh Rate To GPU For Super-Smooth Gaming
 

amjath

Human Spambot
a little info on G-Sync monitors :D
Nvidia G-Sync Syncs Screen Refresh Rate To GPU For Super-Smooth Gaming

One downside to the new technology is that G-Sync is only compatible with Nvidia graphics cards (Kepler architecture, GTX 660 upwards), cutting out anyone running AMD cards. According to Nvidia marketing director, Tom Petersen, G-Sync is designed to be a new universal standard. However, it's actually a proprietary technology reserved exclusively for Nvidia-based machines.

oh no, Comeon AMD is cheaper that what unlike Nvidia is offering. I think we should wait for a review with g-sync monitor and nvidia gpu vs non g-sync monitor and amd cads
 

sukesh1090

Adam young
^^
It reduces heat and power of what?
GPU,how because is a technology to improve the synchronisation of frames between monitor and GPU.it delays the refreshing of frames by monior so that it falls in line with GPU frame.so it will eliminate those breakage lines when you don't use v sync and stuttering when you equip v sync.it has nothing to do with GPU heat or power.it will only making frame rendering smooth.
 

amjath

Human Spambot
^^
A smoother, clearer moving picture isn't the only advantage G-Sync brings. It can also help reduce power consumption by allowing graphics cards to work at 40 to 60 frames per second while still keeping images impeccably smooth. And less power in turn means less heat, which is a definite plus when GPUs can get super-hot and require lots of cooling from noisy fans.
From top gear link
 

sukesh1090

Adam young
^^
Hmm...what if the monitor supports 120Mhz refresh rate? as these are premium monitors i think they will mostly support 120MHz refresh rate so its effect on power and heat ,i am not sure about it and even Anandtech didn't say anything about it.
 

topgear

Super Moderator
Staff member
because Anandtech used monitor with first gen G-Sync feature ... for reduced power consumption we may need to wait for second gen G-Sync monitors or this may be just another marketing gimmick .. anyway, at very high res [ say 4k ] as per anandtech review the monitors will only work at 60 hz refresh rate even though the monitors have 120 Hz+ refresh rate.

There’s also nothing stopping a display manufacturer from building a 4K G-Sync display. DisplayPort 1.2 is fully supported, so 4K/60Hz is the max you’ll see at this point. That being said, I think it’s far more likely that we’ll see a 2560 x 1440 IPS display with G-Sync rather than a 4K model in the near term.

But playing some resource hungry game at 4k res with every gfx details maxed out is enough to hammer even the most powerful gpu so the reduced power consumption and heat method needs a proper review :D
 

sukesh1090

Adam young
here we go a detailed preview of tegra k1 ;) ,
NVIDIA Tegra K1 Preview & Architecture Analysis

but i think this time also nvidia is bit late to the game as qualcomm announced s805 one month ago and if the rumous are true sony flagship(sirius) and HTC one + (M8) will be coming with s805.most probably samsung will again go with qualcomm or its exynos so only leaving LG.
 

coolnikk

Journeyman
And here comes the monster MSI Lighting R9 290x , R9 290

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AnandTech | MSI GPUs at CES 2014: Massive R9 290X Lightning and More
 

sukesh1090

Adam young
^^
hahaa...then what do you expect from NVIDIA?
now that nvidia is charging more than 100$ extra for g sync enabled monitor while AMD is saying you can do it for free then do you think nvidia will react "oh yeah we know that it can be done for free but we want to make some money so we are looting people as we don't have anyother way to make fool of people"
Most of the new notebooks or netbooks will support free sync as it has all the features required.laptop screens are using that vblank feature to reduce power consummption so most of the new laptops will have that feature and you can use free sync with just a driver update and AMD saya the latest catalyst driver has that feature.they atually just bought new randomn toshiba laptops and showed it working flawlessly.where as for desktop monitors it won't work as of now because vblank is a standard feature in DP 1.3 and we are currently using DP 1.2,but then the monitor manufacturers may implement it in new monitors even though it is not a standard feature of DP 1.2.
G sync is just another money looting feature from nvidia like physx.
 

ASHISH65

Technomancer
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hahaa...then what do you expect from NVIDIA?
now that nvidia is charging more than 100$ extra for g sync enabled monitor while AMD is saying you can do it for free then do you think nvidia will react "oh yeah we know that it can be done for free but we want to make some money so we are looting people as we don't have anyother way to make fool of people"
Most of the new notebooks or netbooks will support free sync as it has all the features required.laptop screens are using that vblank feature to reduce power consummption so most of the new laptops will have that feature and you can use free sync with just a driver update and AMD saya the latest catalyst driver has that feature.they atually just bought new randomn toshiba laptops and showed it working flawlessly.where as for desktop monitors it won't work as of now because vblank is a standard feature in DP 1.3 and we are currently using DP 1.2,but then the monitor manufacturers may implement it in new monitors even though it is not a standard feature of DP 1.2.
G sync is just another money looting feature from nvidia like physx.

agreed :D
 

sukesh1090

Adam young
^^
lol yes i did but did you bother reading my comment? :wink:
i told you free sync is not available for desktop yet and it supports only laptops for now and your article says the samething.so in future we may see monitors supporting it,you just have to wait.
but then if people have money and they don't find anything else relevant for spending then they can go ahead and buy it. its that simple.
If you read that article from anadtech he clearly states that g sync is for those people who has high end cards and who has excellent eye sights who can notice the stuttering when you enable v sync but the truth is most of the people won't notice or got accustomed to it.so basically g sync is an extra layer of comfort like physx which most people don't need.
I don't know why NVIDIA always spends time and resource to develop these sort of non proprietary (useless) things,rather than this they could have went ahead and ported mantle for nvidia as its an open source API and now we can see that it really helps but then they won't because they can't loot people with mantle because AMD is already giving it for free.
 
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