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On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:46:26 +0100, Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote:

>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.

Kind of ironic that AMD was quick to claim they had a "software-only"
solution to g-sync, yet they are unable to fully implement that
software in back-level hardware. lol

Wonder if they will retrofit it into the current gen of console GPUs?
Since AMD's marketshare in PC gaming has been crushed over the last
few years, it seems to me that's where AMD needs this technology the
most.  Granted, it's a little easier to test and optimize a console
title to work on relatively poor-performing televisions, and I doubt
consolers are even in touch with some of the reasons why they might
want the technology, but otherwise its hard to know why a huge number
of monitor vendors would be overly excited about chasing after a lower
piece of the marketshare pie.

Will be interesting to see how it all pans out.  I am going to be very
surprised if the first few years of of Freesync ends up being "problem
free".  

Longer-term?  Who knows -- maybe we will all be using DisplayPort
Adaptive-Sync (for which "Project FreeSync" is connected to, but not
the same thing... Freesync is simply AMDs proprietary implementation
of DPAS).  There may come a day when both AMD and Nvidia card owners
use DPAS and it is built in to all monitors and TVs.  In the mean time
I'm not touching anything from AMD that starts with the word "Project"
with a ten foot pole.