Using FreeSync with Nvidia GPUs: How Well Does It Work?

[Mithan]

I have a beautiful 27" Acer IPS 144hz Gsync 1440p monitor and it rocks. The only thing better would be with HDR. I don't care about 4k yet because we don't have video cards capable of pushing 4k to 120+ FPS with graphics maxed out and wont for a few more years.

Anyways, that being said screw nvidia and their cost on this.

They finally did something consumer focused for a change and the only reason I suspect this is the case is because FreeSync is going to be coming to a lot of living room TV's in the near future, especially as PS5 and Xbox 4 are being rumored to provide FreeSync and they felt they would be at a competitive disadvantage if they didn't support it.

or... a bunch of nVidia people have looked at the dozens of FreeSync monitors out there and are tired they can't get the same in Gsync and decided to fix it.

 

[Satish Mallya]

Nvidia doing something pro-consumer? im shocked

Aside from producing & selling products which people want that wouldn't be available otherwise, you mean.

No, more like needlessly crippling their products so that they could try to push their own standards for adaptive sync....and make money off of the licensing fees for said monitors.

 

[Someone8MyPosts]

It's crap like this that makes me want to jump ship and get an AMD Radeon card, instead. Screw all that confusing tierd junk. I just want to get a monitor with Freesync and use it with my card. Done.

 

[salman qureshi]

It is unfortunate that, due to NVidias strict proprietary and licensing policy, there is no way to achieve full harmony in performance between the Freesync and an NVidia GPU.

 

[MaikuTech]

you are blaming AMD for something that they didn't make. did you make this childish troll post expecting ppl to throw insults at you? (for good reason) grow up already.

Just let him be an *****, who cares if amd made it or not. >_>

Besides since I am in the market of buying a new tv or monitor it gives me a better options to go with freesync monitor.
I will probably not go with freesync since the prices are abit too high online and in store.

 

[PcePce]

Carrying out their business function is hardly in the same category as making an altruistic move to allow more people to get the best from their hardware. This is a classy move from nVidia - for once.

Altruism doesn't exist, and what you dismissively call "carrying out their business function" does more good for the world than every bitter whiner on the internet would do in 100 lifetimes.

 

[Jonathan Reilly]

It would be great if my GX1070 connected to my Pixio Freesync monitor would even give me the option of setting this up in ANY menu. But no. This is immensely frustrating.

 

[dragonherder]

Damn it! I recently bought no name 144hz monitor. I should have waited and got one from the approved list.

Literally the entire point of this article was to tell you the "approved list" doesn't matter.

The approved list is what meets nvidia's specifications so that's accurate. It could be a case where they have not tested the monitors listed here that work perfectly for instance as well. The whole idea is that those on the list are proven to work for nvidia without issue and will have the features auto-enabled.

 

[dragonherder]

I'm also interested in hearing about laptops. Surely this opens the door now to having virtually any decent new gaming laptop support adaptive sync.

Without any need for a Gsync certification manufacturers should be able to fit a good panel and have adaptive sync enabled via drivers whether it has AMD or Nvidia graphics.

A gsync laptop is already just an adaptive sync based panel. In a sense you are accurate, but they won't be able to label it as g-sync if it doesn't meet nvidia's criteria. Ultimately though, yes if someone were to make a panel that had the right range for everything stuff should work nice and smooth.

 

[cliffordcooley]

It could be a case where they have not tested the monitors listed here that work perfectly for instance as well.

I'm willing to bet the whole list could have been tested during the time it took to write this article. That is assuming nVidia wanted them tested. Then again they were probably only paid to approve the ones that have passed inspection.

 

[Bubbajim]

Altruism doesn't exist, and what you dismissively call "carrying out their business function" does more good for the world than every bitter whiner on the internet would do in 100 lifetimes.

You saying altruism doesn't exist, doesn't make altruism stop existing.

And there's nothing dismissive in what I said, it's just matter-of-fact. They're in the business of making GPUs, and there's nothing pro- or anti-consumer in just making and selling those. But when they have no need to open up consumer options for which monitors they can use, but they decide to take that step, that's a pro-consumer move.

Either way, I must confess I have no idea what your bugbear is in this thread.

 

[Bigi444444]

Best news could read today.That's a huge step forward!

 

[Eldritch]

Nothing against Nvidia but Gsync monitors are too costly to be considered by most consumers. Freesync ones are pretty standard now and Nvidia knows its fighting a losing battle.
Freesync is like Android in monitor market, free standard that works good for price tag. Credit to Nvidia for not being too stubborn about it.

 

[Potato Judge]

Recently bought a freesync monitor only to find out later that only Win 10 is supported. XD

 

[MaikuTech]

Recently bought a freesync monitor only to find out later that only Win 10 is supported. XD

o_O could you link that information so I can double check and make sure ?
Well I finally bought a new TV-Monitor it pretty much does more than I expected it to.
In my nvidia control panel I was able to hit Ultra HD 1920x1080 (1080p) native with no problems.
I won't be using that resolution much except for pvp or big over world map turrains.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MU1GBLL/?tag=httpwwwtechsp-20

 

[Potato Judge]

o_O could you link that information so I can double check and make sure ?
Well I finally bought a new TV-Monitor it pretty much does more than I expected it to.
In my nvidia control panel I was able to hit Ultra HD 1920x1080 (1080p) native with no problems.
I won't be using that resolution much except for pvp or big over world map turrains.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MU1GBLL/?tag=httpwwwtechsp-20

Found it on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/ag6a9f/how_to_enable_adaptivesync_freesync_if_you_have/

I was confused myself, since I made sure the Nvidia driver was up to date, Freesync was enabled on the monitor, and the display was connected via DP. Still, no G-sync option found on Nvidia's control panel. Sad. lol..

 

[MaikuTech]

Hmm thanks for the information, it'll come in handy down the road this year.
When someone says it does work on windows 7-8 when it really does not.
It seems like nvidia doesn't know what to do with its freesync adaptation after reading that post.
I practically don't care for freesync anything thats why I made the decision to get a new smart led tv.

 

[natan182]

Hello! I'm about to buy the Samsung C24FG73 monitor. My main use will be CSGO and Overwatch, where I intend to use the 144hz available and singleplayer games, where I intend to use with adaptive sync, however at the moment I have only an i7 4770 and a gtx 1060, and I'm a bit afraid to buy the monitor and not being able to enjoy freesync in some fair, since his freesync range is 70-144hz and in some games I know that I will not be able to play in that interval, so I'm going to benefit from the LFC?

 

[Peter Farkas]

G-sync works prefectly with my MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z and AOC Q3279VWFD8!
Thanks Nvidia!!!

 

[Avenger001]

Got freesync working on the BenQ EX3501R via Display port with 2080ti xtreme. Tested metro\assasins creed origin and bfv without issue.

 

[hoover1979]

I recently bought an ASUS VG278QR monitor and connected it to my Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming GTX1080 Waterforce Rev 2 video card via a Displayport cable, set up G-Sync in Nvidia Control Panel and made sure it was enabled in the monitor's own GUI, but I still get tearing if I have G-Sync enabled, even if I cap the frame rate to 165FPS to be inline with the 165Hz refresh rate of the screen. The only way to kill the tearing is to also enable vsync and set it to adaptive.

I thought G-Sync was an alternative to vsync so you can kill the god awful tearing without having to endure vsync input lag. Even when I set some games to use fast sync set to adaptive (D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11, as fast sync doesn't work on OpenGL, Vulkan or D3D12), and I still get some tearing and the overall smoothness of motion is still noticeably compromised. In effect, games are only tear-free and have smooth motion when vsync is used in conjunction with G-Sync.

 

[MemLord]

Just tried this on my Acer XF270HU and it works. Not surprising given the monitor has a range of 40-144 Hz.

Excuse me, how did you know your frequency range?

 

[esgbt]

It clearly states in the article that only 10xx and 20xx support freesync,

does that mean it won't work with 16xx?

 

[neeyik]

does that mean it won't work with 16xx?

GTX 16xx chips use the same display engine as found in the other Turing processors, so it supports G-Sync Ultimate, G-Sync, and G-Sync Compatible.

 

[StormBlast]

I have Freesync2 monitor (Gigabyte Aorus cv27q) and Asus GTX 1060 - there is NO way to make GSync work stable. It always flickers at game loading screens (frame rate drop?) and every 10-15s monitor looses signal for about 1-2s. I have tested 3 DP cables - issue always exists.