NVIDIA Reaffirms Their Plans to Only Support G-Sync

G-Sync is an absolutely fantastic invention which synchronises your display’s refresh rate with the graphics card’s current frame-rate. This eliminates stutter and forms a wonderful user-experience. Traditionally, consumers had to accept either horrible screen tearing or input lag caused by V-Sync which really detracted from a silky smooth frame-rate. Of course, NVIDIA’s solution isn’t cheap and adds a significant premium on supported monitors. Also, display manufacturers work closely with NVIDIA to include a G-Sync module. This dramatically limits the number of G-Sync models available compared to the competition. Of course, AMD’s variable refresh technology, entitled FreeSync adopts the open source model and can easily be integrated into monitors rather easily.

Furthermore, FreeSync models are much cheaper than their G-Sync counterparts and offer superb value. Theoretically, this open source philosophy means NVIDIA card owners should be able to enjoy the benefits of FreeSync. However, during the press briefing today, NVIDIA confirmed that they are focusing on G-Sync and feel it provides a much better experience during lower and higher frame-rate scenarios. This is the reason why FreeSync isn’t going to be supported and the company’s policy doesn’t look like changing in the near future. It’s not a surprising revelation because NVIDIA wants to protect their investment but users opting for a NVIDIA graphics card and FreeSync panel are bound to be disappointed.