NVIDIA has just announced that it will enable G-Sync functionalities to a select number of FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync PC monitors that are currently available on the market. According to NVIDIA’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang, the green team is currently testing all FreeSync monitors and has announced the first models that will support G-Sync.
The FreeSync monitors that have passed NVIDIA’s testing are the ACER XFA240, ACER XZ321Q, ACER XG270HU, ACER XV253KASUS, Agon AG241QG4, AOC G2590FX, BenQ XL2740, ASUS MG278Q, ASUS XG248, ASUS VG258Q, ASUS XG258, and ASUS VG278Q.
NVIDIA stated that the driver that will allow these FreeSync monitors to behave like G-Sync monitors will be released on January 15th. Owners of these monitors will be able to enable G-Sync via NVIDIA’s control panel.
This is undoubtedly amazing news for owners of FreeSync monitors as they can now take advantage of their monitors with both NVIDIA’s and AMD’s hardware. Not only that, but the FreeSync monitors are usually cheaper than their G-Sync counterparts.
GG NVIDIA!
UPDATE:
NVIDIA will also give an option to everyone that owns a FreeSync monitor to enable VRR. However, you will need a GeForce RTX 20-series or a GTX 10-series in order to enable VRR.
“G-SYNC Compatible tests will identify monitors that deliver a baseline VRR experience on GeForce RTX 20-series and GeForce GTX 10-series graphics cards, and activate their VRR features automatically.
Support for G-SYNC Compatible monitors will begin Jan. 15 with the launch of our first 2019 Game Ready driver. Already, 12 monitors have been validated as G-SYNC Compatible (from the 400 we have tested so far). We’ll continue to test monitors and update our support list. For gamers who have monitors that we have not yet tested, or that have failed validation, we’ll give you an option to manually enable VRR, too.”
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This sounds like a last resort for the green team to convert red users to their flock.
last resort? if anything this is just another effort by nvidia to make AMD struggle to maintain their already small market share vs nvidia.
actually its probably a push to keep the nvidia base from converting. I decided to save 300 dollars and purchase a freesync qhd 144z monitor. that 300 dollars save is going to go towards the next gen radeon.
Nobody with a same mind is going to team Red. Why downgrade? Nvidia just ruined AMD again by allowing freesuck displays.
Ya I guess you filthy reds can use my fancy toys
Oh how amazing, 12 monitors out of around 400 that support it currently work. Thanks, NVIDIA, cam’t wait for INTEL to release GPU’s and kick you right in the teeth.
So you are buying every single monitor? I hope someone will kick you in the teeth.
You can enable VRR on all FreeSync monitors or TVs but only 12 of these so far meet the ridiculously high standards of Nvidia G-SYNC compatible certification. In the future that number will grow exponentially since now screen manufactures will have a FREE G-Sync Compatible industry standard to aim for to put on their boxes.
This is a great step in the right direction 🙂
Now all they need to do is do the reverse: open up existing GSYNC monitors (for people that already own them) to Adaptive Sync GPUs (Intel, AMD, etc)
even if nvidia opens them will intel or AMD bother to work the software to work with Gsync module?
Well presumably Nvidia could provide an interface to adapt it to work with FreeSync but they’re probably not going to do that.
Exactly. I’m happy with my G-Sync display but when it comes time to replace my living room TV I’ll now be looking to buy one featuring HDMI 2.1 and FreeSync plus G-Sync certification for those infrequent occasions I hook up my PC to the TV for that big-screen gaming experience. It’ll be one hell of a lot cheaper and more practical than buying a big screen G-Sync monitor!
Great news! Hope I can enable Freesync with my 1070ti on my Samsung 65NU8000 TV!!!
so no love for maxwell?
This is the beginning of the end for G-Sync. It won’t happen immediately but it will take a few years for G-Sync to be completely phased out from Nvidia’s marketing.
just like how it takes few years for adaptive sync monitors to reach the standard that nvidia has been pushing since the very beginning. this is thanks to monitor maker adopting Adaptive sync. similar thing will happen to vulkan if majority of game developer adopt vulkan over direct x.
Well there goes me not buying a gsync monitor ever again. I love mine but clearly freesync is the nvidia’s goal and this is fine, these monitors are much less expensive and just as good i believe
That seems odd to me. I admit that I don’t know a lot about G-Sync but wasn’t the excuse for the extra cost of G-Sync monitors because they had to have special hardware in them? Now Nvidia is saying that there is a software solution after all?
G-Sync monitors typically had a minimum $100 price premium but now Nvidia can flick a switch through software to enable it for free? Talk about being a slap in the face for all those customers who paid extra for a G-Sync monitor.
On a broader note, it’s not surprising that they’re doing this given that once HDMI 2.1 becomes commonplace on more half-decent TVs and monitors then, assuming AMD and their partners take full advantage of it by way of FreeSync/FreeSync 2.0, there’ll be less of a need for people to pay the extra for a G-Sync panel.
So Nvidia could have either stood by to let G-Sync wither on the vine or be forced into doing what’s being announced. This is great news for the consumer albeit I expect Nvidia and/or its cheerleaders to spin it as being anything other than the humiliating acceptance of defeat that it is.
Not that AMD unilaterally won this particular battle because without HDMI 2.1 the story would have been very different. In the absence of the threat of HDMI 2.1 then Nvidia would likely have continued price gouging consumers by way of their exorbitant G-Sync licensing fees charged to gaming monitor manufacturers.
>Talk about being a slap in the face for all those customers who paid extra for a G-Sync monitor
You paid extra for the hardware, QA and consistency.
Freesync is entirely up to the manufacturer to implement in however they see fit, and there are few monitors with good implementations.
I don’t know, but i wouldn’t expect the same performance or quality “G-SYNC ULTIMATE” monitors have.
“G-Sync monitors typically had a minimum $100 price premium but now
Nvidia can flick a switch through software to enable it for free?”
Same thing I was wondering about when I saw this article. The excuse for the greater expense for the G-Sync monitors was because G-Sync was a hardware solution and it increased the cost to manufacture the monitors.
I remember when G-Sync first arrived we were all told that it’d never be possible through software because it needed the (premium priced, of course) G-Sync module hardware.
Some time later it then came to gaming laptop PCs as a software solution reputedly due to the way some laptop display panels work.
Now it’s going to work on some FreeSync monitors once more without the need for the G-Sync module hardware.
Yet they’re limiting it to 10xx and 20xx series GPUs. Given that GTX980Ti is more powerful than GTX1030, GTX1050, GTX1050Ti and GTX1060 then Nvidia are unnecessarily restricting its availability presumably for marketing purposes.
If Nvidia expect us to believe that GTX9xx series is incapable of doing this then I would point out that GTX10xx series first launched back in May 2016 so I’m interested to hear why it’s taken them until now to action this development.
My monitor cost me about $700 CDN. Its an Acer Predator 165hz, 1440p with g-sync. I know I paid at least a $100 premium to use g-sync with my 1080ti.
Remember those G-Sync kits you could install on a generic monitor? I think those were like $300.
Believe me, I know. I’m more worried about the Conservative vote being split my Maxime Bernier’s new party. Trudeau can’t win against the mass of people that want him out, but if that vote is split between two parties he might be able to claw out a 35% vote win.
the fanboys are already calling amd users “peasants,” but they supported nvidia’s practices and nvidia is failing because of those practices.
Fanboys of all persuasions are to be avoided.
i know
my 165HZ monitor already supports GSYNC this is good new for those AMD peasants well come go high class gaming lol
How does this affect an AMD user at all?
well for one they will finally have something better than what they are using now free sync that is
What? You misunderstand everything.
Adaptive sync (aka freesync) already works on AMD cards. This does not enable Gsync on AMD cards.
This only allows Nvidia cards to finally move away from Gsync.
you’re a f moron
that’s what i was saying lol
I don’t understand…. FreeSync IS VRR, is it not?
Haha… Now the government can allow purchase of VRR monitors with EBT since they support the less expensive FreeSync standard.
Thats a good thing, freesync monitors are much cheaper than g-sync monitors.
Great news for those of us who paid the premium for G-sync…
what an eerily specific assumption, sounds like you are one of those poor people.
Wow how generous of NV, oh wait was it an advantage for AMD since many TVs & monitors now have freesync? LOL
F* U NVIDIA!
I ended up spending $500 on a G-Sync display this past Thanksgiving! Given its still a great deal for a curved 32″ QHD 165Hz G-Sync monitor…I would’ve picked some great FreeSync options taht were available far cheaper instead!
What if I have a G-sync monitor and want to upgrade to AMD Navi?
Ow thats a good question. Because i also have 1 and i might go AMD.. and it seems like they dont offer the same support like Nvidia.. typical AMD..
F*ING FINALLY!!!!!! I’m patiently waiting now for EDID hacks.
F* U NVIDIA!
I ended up spending $500 on a G-Sync display this past Thanksgiving! Given its still a great deal for a curved 32″ QHD 165Hz G-Sync monitor…I would’ve picked some great FreeSync options taht were available far cheaper instead!
This is a good thing for the average consumer but a huge slap in the face for people like myself who paid extra for an overpriced monitor. This is how my hatred for certain companies is born. I’m now convinced without any doubt that nvidia is just pure greed. First the overpriced RTX cards and now this.
JOHN,
Some update on this issue.Three New Monitors Meet Nvidia’s G-Sync Compatible Standard.
The three new monitors that have been added to Nvidia’s list of G-SYNC Compatible Displays include the following:
BenQ XL2540-B/ZOWIE XL LCD
Acer XF250Q
Acer ED273 A
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/g-sync-monitors/specs/
https://www.overclock3d.net/news/gpu_displays/three_new_monitors_meet_nvidia_s_g-sync_compatible_standard/1
@JOHN,
Some update on this issue…Nvidia to certify 7 more FreeSync Monitors as G-Sync Compatible next week….This includes displays from ASUS, Acer, Gigabyte and LG.
Below is a list of Nvidia’s upcoming G-Sync Compatible monitors;
– Acer KG271 Bbmiipx;
– Acer XF240H Bmjdpr
– Acer XF270H Bbmiiprx
– AOPEN 27HC1R Pbidpx
– Asus VG248QG
– Gigabyte Aorus AD27QD
– LG 27GK750F (AUSUMPM / BKRUMPN)
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-adds-gsync-compatible-monitors-freesync,39104.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/254734/nvidia-adding-7-g-sync-compatible-monitors-to-its-listing-on-april-23rd