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"So I came across this article on anantech.
It is basically G-sync, but then without any hardware modification, licence free and open.
Sooo, apparently there isn't really a good reason for stuff like a G-sync board, apart from making it proprietary, unless Nvidia's GPU's don't support something like VBLANK on their own. It also once again shows the difference between business strategies between Nvidia and AMD. Apparently this VBLANK was a VESA standard for some time now, and imho it makes G-sync look kind of silly.
What are your guys' thoughts?
Edit: Nooooooo messed up the title ""
Another article on Techreport.
It is basically G-sync, but then without any hardware modification, licence free and open.
In the case of the Toshiba Satellite Click, the panel already supports variable VBLANK. AMD’s display engines have supported variable VBLANK for a couple of generations, and that extends all the way down to APUs. The Satellite Click in question uses AMD’s low cost Kabini APU, which already has the requisite hardware to support variable VBLANK and thus variable display refresh rates (Kaveri as well as AMD's latest GPUs should support it as well). AMD simply needed driver support for controlling VBLANK timing, which is present in the latest Catalyst drivers. AMD hasn’t yet exposed any of the controls to end users, but all of the pieces in this demo are ready and already available.
Sooo, apparently there isn't really a good reason for stuff like a G-sync board, apart from making it proprietary, unless Nvidia's GPU's don't support something like VBLANK on their own. It also once again shows the difference between business strategies between Nvidia and AMD. Apparently this VBLANK was a VESA standard for some time now, and imho it makes G-sync look kind of silly.
What are your guys' thoughts?
Edit: Nooooooo messed up the title ""
Another article on Techreport.
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