Nvidia Freesync Hdmi Support
Buying a freesync certified display that supports freesync over hdmi provides the immediate benefit of variable refresh rate even if the display does not support hdmi 2 1.
Nvidia freesync hdmi support. Open the nvidia control panel browse to set up g sync. All of nvidia s drivers since mid january 2019 have included g sync support for select freesync monitors. Activate freesync on your display using on screen. Nvidia websites use cookies to deliver and improve the website experience.
Firstly make sure you ve connected the display to your gpu using displayport and not hdmi. How to activate freesync support on nvidia gpus. First a quick look at how exactly you enable adaptive sync support for non certified monitors. Nvidia recently brought g sync support to 15 amd freesync monitors starting at as low as 189.
Enabling g sync on your freesync monitor. Even if you don t own a supported monitor you ll probably be able to toggle g sync. Many freesync certified displays have supported variable refresh rate technologies over hdmi since long before hdmi 2 1 was released and hdmi vrr was adopted. Even though amd radeon gpus and some freesync monitors support adaptive sync over hdmi nvidia says you ll need to connect your geforce gpu to your freesync monitor using a displayport cable to.
Buying expensive certified gear will be the right move for some but freesync monitors that are g. Nvidia don t support freesync via hdmi on any graphic card they ever made. Starting with 16 and 20 series nvidia started to support hdmi forum vrr over hdmi.