MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Got one today.

> > All my hardware is nvidia but it seems that those monitors are a little pricier &
> harder to find...
> >
> > I'll keep looking though...
>
> This has a reason. G-Sync is a industry standard, is defined and has strict hardware
> rules. Manufacturers need to buy a license for a G-Sync brand.
>
> Free Sync has no tight rules and because of this, many Free Sync monitors differ
> heavily in specifications from monitor to monitor.
>
> Go with quality. Nvidia invented G-Sync and is always ahead with new features (Cuda,
> G-Sync etc.). What did ATI invented first, in the past decade? I think there is not a
> single feature, that makes you go "wow" (if there is any).

Gsync is not an industry standard, it's an nvidia standard. The industry standard is HDMI 2.0 VRR which is already supported on Xbox One X. It's a sort of evolved version of VESA adaptive sync. AMD/ATI chips had a version of this tech 3 generations before nvidia marketed Gsync, although it was originally designed as a power saving technique for laptops(hence AMD's first demo after Gsync launch was using a laptop with the right panel type).

As for things AMD/ATI did first recently, they made the first low level graphics API(Mantle) which became the basis for the industry standard Vulkan API. AMD codeveloped GDDR5 memory and HBM memory, of which nvidia uses both.

Edited by Reznor007 (01/13/18 02:05 AM)