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Re: The standalone DIY G-Sync board available?
Posted: 07 Jan 2014, 11:28
by Black Octagon
My main problem with the USD200 price tag is that it is already on top of a premium that traditionally comes with choosing an NV card over the AMD equivalent (the cryptocoin mining craze notwithstanding).
Sent from dumbphone (pls excuse typos and dumbness)
Re: The standalone DIY G-Sync board available?
Posted: 07 Jan 2014, 12:01
by Chief Blur Buster
I am pretty sure that the premium will fall over the next 12 months. So does GPU costs.
It is worth more than $200 worth of motion quality upgrade as G-SYNC successfully makes stutter-free 45fps look visually better than stuttery 75fps.
Re: The standalone DIY G-Sync board available?
Posted: 07 Jan 2014, 13:09
by TheExodu5
I'd assume the premiums should fall harshly once the design is finalized and the FPGA solution is replaced with an ASIC.
Re: The standalone DIY G-Sync board available?
Posted: 12 Jan 2014, 22:20
by Chief Blur Buster
TheExodu5 wrote:I'd assume the premiums should fall harshly once the design is finalized and the FPGA solution is replaced with an ASIC.
Agreed. I believe that VRR technologies (GSYNC, FreeSync) will probably become widespread in gaming monitors within 3 years.
For the next few years, it will be a slow fall from a $150-200 premium, due to economics / market demand, and the long time it takes for ASICs to be designed.