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Seems like AMD has revealed Freesync at the CES 2015

Here is the info I got from various newssnippets:
The first monitors are available from March onwards.

Here is a list of monitors coming out in march.


Vendor 	Model 	 Size 			Resolution 	Refresh rate
BenQ 	XL2730Z  27 Inch 		2.560 × 1.440 	144 Hz
LG  	29UM67 	 29 Inch 		2.560 × 1.080 	75 Hz
LG  	34UM67 	 34 Inch 		2.560 × 1.080 	75 Hz
Nixeus 	NX-VUE24 24 Inch 		1.920 × 1.080 	144 Hz
Samsung UE590 	 23,6 / 28 Inch 	3.840 × 2.160 	60 Hz
Samsung UE850 	 23,6 / 28 / 31,5 Inch 	3.840 × 2.160 	60 Hz
Viewsonic VX2701mh 27 Inch 		1.920 × 1.080 	144 Hz


About 20 monitors and 10 vendors will be among this list until the years 
end. Apparently some vendors will patch existing monitors if possible. 
There are rumors that Iiyama might patch their to one model
most likely the B2888UHSU-B1 (which I apparently have), but those are 
rumors, which crawled up then were denied (due to no official info 
available yet from Iiyamas side) and then crawled up again from AMDs 
side during the CES. So I am on a wait and see loop, if this monitor 
really will be patched then AMD has sold automatically a card to me.

Also have in mind not all AMD cards will support FreeSync only a handful 
some older some newer here is the list straight from AMD:

All AMD Radeon graphics cards in the AMD Radeon HD 7000, HD 8000, R7 or 
R9 Series will support Project FreeSync for video playback and 
power-saving purposes. The AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2, 290X, R9 290, R9 285, 
R7 260X and R7 260 GPUs additionally feature updated display controllers 
that will support dynamic refresh rates during gaming.

So only a handful of AMD cards will support freesync for gaming.


Werner