Nvidia GPUs finally support adaptive sync, bringing G-Sync to (some) FreeSync monitors

Six years after the introduction of the hardware-based G-Sync technology Nvidia has announced it’s opening up its graphics cards to adaptive sync monitors which support Variable Refresh Rates. Essentially, Nvidia is going to allow a G-Sync Lite experience, without the expensive dedicated G-Sync hardware, for a host of AMD FreeSync-compatible monitors. G-Sync Compatible is going to be the term for the Nvidia seal of adaptive sync approval when the company adds Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support to screens starting later this month. But what does that all mean? It means that a validated G-Sync Compatible monitor will have been tested to ensure that it meets Nvidia’s standards, and that means the screen will have to be able to enable VRR by default and will operate within a range of at least 2.4:1, or 60Hz to 144Hz, for example. It will also ensure there is no flickering, blanking, or artifacting while VRR is enabled. At the moment only 12 adaptive sync monitors have been validated as G-Sync Compatible, and driver support for the VRR G-Sync feature will kick off on January 15, along with support for the new RTX 2060 graphics card.

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