It appears that AMD is currently working on FreeSync 2, however there is a catch. FreeSync 2 is a brand new technology that has nothing to do with the first FreeSync.
While the first FreeSync puts an end to choppy gameplay and broken frames with fluid, artifact-free performance at virtually any framerate, FreeSync 2 is a new technology that will automatically switch your monitor into HDR mode.
FreeSync 2 will offer over 2X perceivable brightness and color volume over sRGB.
Videocardz has leaked the slides for FreeSync 2 that can be viewed below.
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Slightly offtopic: Do freesync monitors work with Nvidia GPU’s?
In theory: Yes, they COULD.
In reality: No, because Nvidia refuses to support it, since they got their own stuff,
clearly he knows about gsync, but he doesnt like the expensive part about it
read the post above you
will this be a upgrade for exsisting freesync screens? proberbly not.
lets wait for CES to get into full swing. They wouldnt be introducing this if there wasnt any panels coming out!!!
As someone who already feels the eye strain from monitors the last thing I want is a brighter monitor. F.lux already doesn’t go any lower on the ones I have now.
Doesn’t HDR mean the possibility of achieving both brighter and darker image? It would be good for you.
HDR is a must for gaming, no more colour banding in skies etc.
My 1440p GSync monitor has served me well, but I’d kill to see AMD give me an excuse to upgrade to one of these displays. Stupid PR move to call it FreeSync 2 though.
Oh this is good.
There’s more to FreeSync 2 than what these slides show. Videocardz isn’t telling the full story. Developing a spec for HDR+variable refresh is a challenging technical problem in its own right, but there’s more to it than that.
What many people in this thread seem to be missing is that most HDR implementations add >32ms of latency per frame for tonemapping. Do you know how slow that is? That’s equivalent to 30FPS, plus the time it takes to render a frame. Now we’re at sub-30 FPS. Super good for gaming! Not.
AMD appears to have a system for doing the HDR tonemapping inside the GPU, calibrating it for a given display, and doing that at a speed that’s suitable for PC gaming w/ variable refresh on top.
All of this requires new firmware, maybe HDR-ready monitor controllers, HDR-ready panels, and some sort of extension to the VESA Adaptive-Sync spec (which, by default, knows nothing about HDR or color gamuts). The existing FreeSync monitors can’t do any of this–ever. So what’s the easiest way to tell consumers there’s something new/different that can do something substantially different from what’s available today? You give it a new name. It’s not rocket surgery.
So HDR adds that much latency? Damn, I thought it was better than LDR in every single aspect. And now we’ll get another technology like 4K – maybe improving the image, but not enough to make butchering the performance worth it.
I wondered the same thing. Consoles were already suffering from high latency.
Videocardz does not have the full story, like Russell Collins already laid out.
FreeSync 2 is everything FreeSync offers plus the addition of HDR and LFC (which is mandatory for FS2).
Please verify other sources next time before relying just on Videocardz alone.
EDIT: Even in the now embedded video it is clearly stated that FS2 has all the features of FS in addition to HDR and whatnot.
Will it makde HDR work on evry monitor? So my 24” 1440p 60 hz ips will start running games in HDR?
HDR extra latency is criminal and this is really huge, amd is on the right path again
yeah they play dirty, unfortunately
Private company wants to earn money so they offer a product which nobody forcing you to buy it. Yes. That’s really dirty. 🙂
BWAHAHAHAHAA
Yeah, amd makes those games and devs did not make the likes of FF15 AND Shadow warrior 2 with has nvidia hdr btw on purpose… You imbeciles are the worst
Yeah , shadow warrior 2 is the first and only pc hdr game so far. Nvidia sponsored that is why I typed nvidia hdr
Well it is like this imho. Hairworks is garbage compared to radeon pure hair, but hbao+ and nvidia DoF and enhanced rain are really great..
What a stupid name.