Nvidia Freesync Cards

On tuesday nvidia fulfilled its ces promises by releasing geforce driver 417 71 which lets geforce graphics cards tap into the adaptive sync capabilities of amd freesync monitors for buttery.

Nvidia freesync cards. Freesync is a royalty free and open technology developed by amd. Tearing and ugly streaks when playing are a thing of the past. Because freesync 2 is an hdr pipeline exclusive to amd that allows the game to talk directly to the monitor for lower latency hdr. That s where the g comes from.

It s finally happened nvidia freesync. However due to their inherent similarities we find ourselves in an it doesn t hurt to try scenario. This openness and licensing free approach from amd mean that you will find freesync implemented in a much wider range of monitors. Why combine your freesync monitor with nvidia graphics card.

But nvidia has gone its own way. While nvidia to no one s surprise intends g sync for geforce graphics cards hint. Of course it s not actually saying that nooooo nvidia. Nvidia made a change in policy that pleased many pc gamers by starting to work on certifying amd freesync monitors to work with nvidia gpus.

Nvidia has developed g sync for this the competitor amd uses the vesa standard adaptive sync and calls it freesync. Both techniques work very similar. This may be the most obvious question on the lips of many. We also haven t tested any freesync 2 monitors with nvidia gpus.

The monitor continuously adjusts the refresh rate to the actual fps of the graphics card. All of nvidia s drivers since mid january 2019 have included g sync support for select freesync monitors. Yes team geforce is actually supporting amd s freesync monitor feature on its graphics cards. It has been tested to work multiple times.

In this windows 10 guide we re going to run you. All you need is an amd raven ridge apu like the ryzen 3 2200g and an nvidia graphics card to get it to work.