How does Nvidia card react to a FreeSync Monitor?

Talk about AMD's FreeSync and VESA AdaptiveSync, which are variable refresh rate technologies. They also eliminate stutters, and eliminate tearing. List of FreeSync Monitors.
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Shiotcrock
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How does Nvidia card react to a FreeSync Monitor?

Post by Shiotcrock » 03 Aug 2015, 15:31

http://www.fudzilla.com/reviews/38325-s ... ?showall=1


I want this monitor cause it's cheaper then what I was looking at just want to use it for gaming at 4K.
I was wondering if I can use it at 144hz or will it default to 60hz with a Nvidia card?

Haste
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Re: How does Nvidia card react to a FreeSync Monitor?

Post by Haste » 08 Aug 2015, 16:01

You won't be able to use FreeSync with an NVIDIA GPU.

Not like FreeSync would have been a massive bonus with such a narrow VRR window anyway. (40hz-60hz as indicated in the article you linked)
Monitor: Gigabyte M27Q X

Steeps
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Re: How does Nvidia card react to a FreeSync Monitor?

Post by Steeps » 28 Aug 2015, 07:03

Yes, you can use all features except for FreeSync.

Source: 144hz on a GTX 780 Ti with my BenQ XL2730Z.

Glide
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Re: How does Nvidia card react to a FreeSync Monitor?

Post by Glide » 28 Aug 2015, 11:03

Haste wrote:Not like FreeSync would have been a massive bonus with such a narrow VRR window anyway. (40hz-60hz as indicated in the article you linked)
I really think people saying this are missing the point, or haven't used a VRR display.
Maintaining an absolutely constant 60 FPS 100% of the time is almost impossible to do in modern games - especially at 4K resolutions.
Even if the game drops from 60 to 57 FPS, it's going to stutter and/or tear badly.

As long as you are actually targeting 60 FPS with your graphics settings, a window of 50-60 or even 55-60 should make a massive difference to how smooth games are.

I can't think of the last time a game which was tuned for 60 FPS on my system ran at anything below 50 FPS.
But I absolutely hate it any time the framerate drops below 60. (on a regular 60Hz display)

Below about 45 FPS is a bad experience no matter what display you're using, so a VRR window that only goes down to 40Hz is fine.

Haste
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Re: How does Nvidia card react to a FreeSync Monitor?

Post by Haste » 30 Aug 2015, 07:30

Glide wrote: I can't think of the last time a game which was tuned for 60 FPS on my system ran at anything below 50 FPS.
If your frame counter indicates 50fps, you are almost certainly getting frames in there that are way above 20ms.
Monitor: Gigabyte M27Q X

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