No plans to support Freesync and Displayport Adaptive-Sync

AMD’s investment in dynamic refresh rates steals a lot of attention, despite the fact that Nvidia has been offering similar functionality for some time. One reason is that AMD Freesync, unlike Nvidia G-Sync, is based on an open standard and is not charged with a license fee or requirements for extra control electronics. On the contrary, the technology should be virtually free to implement and use.

At the home electronics fair CES 2015, Freesync was presented together with a plethora of associated screens in different designs and price ranges. The promise is that no less than ten models with support for the underlying technology Displayport Adaptive-Sync will find their way onto the market during the first months of the year, including from giants such as Samsung, LG and Benq.

Despite this, Nvidia chooses not to hook on to the train but also to continue to invest exclusively in its own and proprietary technology G-Sync. During a question and answer session on PC Perspective, Tom Petersen, technology communicator at Nvidia, repeats that it is not relevant to give the graphics cards in the Geforce series support for Displayport Adaptive-Sync.

However, it is not excluded that the green team may come up with other ideas. Although there are currently no plans to support the so far voluntary addition to the Displayport standard, Petersen chooses to leave the door open and “never say never”.