http://www.anandtech.com/show/7641/amd-demonstrates-freesync-free-gsync-alternative-at-ces-2014
[quote] AMD has been relatively silent on the topic of NVIDIA’s variable refresh rate G-Sync technology since its announcement last year. At this year’s CES however, AMD gave me a short demo of its version of the technology.
Using two Toshiba Satellite Click notebooks purchased at retail, without any hardware modifications, AMD demonstrated variable refresh rate technology. According to AMD, there’s been a push to bring variable refresh rate display panels to mobile for a while now in hopes of reducing power consumption (refreshing a display before new content is available wastes power, sort of the same reason we have panel self refresh displays). There’s apparently already a VESA standard for controlling VBLANK intervals. The GPU’s display engine needs to support it, as do the panel and display hardware itself. If all of the components support this spec however, then you can get what appears to be the equivalent of G-Sync without any extra hardware.[/quote]
Ya, alright! Dear Nvidia users, don't be mad that we AMD users will be enjoying Mantle and essentially G-Sync at the same time.
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Is this something that current AMD GPUs could do, or only upcoming ones?
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#shadowplay
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#shotsfired [spoiler]I still want a shadowplay equivalent [/spoiler]
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What is all this shit?
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> freesync > freesink >sink Yup, AMD sure are sinking.
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That name is just insulting.