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five years ago Nvidia announced their

g-sync variable refresh rate gaming

technology which promised to eliminate

to persistent bugbears of PC gaming

stutter and tearing that is as long as

you were willing to pay a significant

premium to the tune of 200 to 300

dollars for your display and of course

it was only available to gamers with

GeForce graphics cards well today or

rather I should say January 15th when

the driver drops that all changes okay

you'll still need a GeForce graphics

card that's not going to change but

NVIDIA is finally joining AMD and Intel

in supporting adaptive sync the open

variable refresh rate standard that was

added to DisplayPort 1.2 a three years

ago and that is basically exactly what

it sounds like

so you can take any old adaptive sync

variable refresh rate monitor so this is

one right here from Samsung there we go

you can plug your GeForce graphics card

into it go into the Nvidia driver and

boom turn on G sync and it gets even

better NVIDIA has already gone through

literally hundreds of these monitors

with the intention of testing every

existing adaptive sync monitor on the

market and actually gone as far as to

certify the dozen or so of them that

they feel meet their standards and

enable G sync by default as soon as you

plug it in and this is at zero cost to

both the consumer and the monitor

manufacturer in fact one of the

certified once was part of AMD's initial

wave of free sync compatible displays

three years ago it's crazy right now

there's no support for TVs at this time

because G sync doesn't work over HDMI

and

so I guess uh NVIDIA has got to sell a

handful of these BFG DS once they're

finally released later this quarter but

they aren't ruling out HDMI support in

the future either so we're gonna have to

see how that develops now I'm sure the

question on everyone's mind is so - what

happens then - the original G sync with

you know the module and everything and

what about G sync HDR contrary to what

you might think they are not going away

see there's one right next to the

compatible ones and the non validated

ones

so while NVIDIA acknowledges that some

of these adaptive sync displays do

deliver a pretty good experience they

have found that the vast majority of

them will exhibit undesirable behaviors

from ones as obvious as blanking out

occasionally to ones that you might not

think of like just having a very narrow

hook look at that

to ones that might just have a very

narrow variable refresh rate window

that's not actually practical for

delivering a good gaming experience so

they maintain that an end-to-end

solution all the way from the graphics

card to the driver to the display module

to the validation of the panel is the

best one so regular G sync with the

module stays the way it is and gsync HDR

becomes G sync ultimate and honestly

this makes sense to me when the display

has in videos module in if they're

involved in its creation from start to

finish working with both the panel and

display manufacturers to test and tune

every aspect of its image quality and

performance and through this process

they can achieve some things that I

haven't seen elsewhere like adaptive

pixel overdrive across the variable

refresh rate range backlight strobing

for very little motion blur with

variable refresh rate and very wide

adaptive refresh rate windows down to as

low as one Hertz I mean nobody actually

wants to game at one frame per second

but it's one of those things where like

hey if you can do it then why not but

the big question everyone's mind right

now has to be why why why now well the

marketing spin is

we just wanted to make gaming better for

gamers everywhere but okay come on now

I'm here in the Nvidia booth so this

might not be a popular thing to say but

I have a hard time believing that this

is some kind of benevolent effort to

make gaming as a whole better I mean if

that kind of a monumental shift in in

videos business had taken place

I'm sure the Linux gamers virtualization

enthusiasts and folks like us who are

trying to save output list mining cards

from ending up in an e-waste pile

somewhere would have been the first to

notice rather what this looks like to me

is exactly the sort of shrewd power play

that we have come to expect from Nvidia

by opening up monitor support they are

eliminating one of the key reasons that

users turn to AMD graphics cards to get

variable refresh rate gaming which when

done well really is a better experience

without paying the g-sync tax which

kills the deal in a lot of cases as for

the longer term

Nvidia won't discuss licensing and

certification or any other fees that we

know exist for current g-sync branded

products like the regular old

DisplayPort displays on g-sync notebooks

but to me this also looks like Nvidia is

opening the doors in the future for

creating a similar program to what they

have on notebooks for certified desktop

displays now I doubt they're just gonna

turn around and start charging for a

certification that they just did and it

was a lot of work for free they

generally take a more slow boil approach

from my experience so here's the way I

see it going down they start taking

requests for certification for

manufacturers earlier in the process now

that everyone knows about it they reject

the ones that aren't good enough they

point at how much better the certified

displays are moving out in the market

and then they offer to be more involved

in the development process of your

monitor next time around for a fee now I

could be wrong of course and Nvidia

could be purely motivated by delivering

a better gaming experience to gamers but

the good news is that it actually

doesn't matter

oops I didn't drop that I wasn't over

there

whatever

the good news is that whatever invidious

intention was this really is a great day

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