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the tech industry has a funny way of trying to make things seem exciting if

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you've updated your product just slap a bunch of impressive sounding words to

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the end of the name i'm looking at you apple and your upcoming iphone 12 pro

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max ultra signature deluxe

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but this is just what AMD has done with the latest revisions of their freesync

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variable refresh rate technology if you're unfamiliar with freesync you can

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learn more about it up here but in a nutshell it's a method for syncing up

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your graphics processor with your screen's refresh rate in order to

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prevent the screen tearing and stutter that can occur as a result of your GPU

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not constantly pushing out the same amount of frames when you're playing a

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game and unlike NVIDIA's variable refresh rate technology g-sync AMD's

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freesync is an open standard that's free to implement hence

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the name friends free set free sync now

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the original freezing standard you know and love is still around and is still

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quite useful however it lacks support for high dynamic range or HDR which is

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increasingly popular for helping games look their best by providing better

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contrast and colors that pop so in 2017

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AMD came out with a revision called freesync 2 HDR which made it rather

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clear that it was a 2nd gen technology and supported HDR but confusingly enough

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that label is no longer around instead we now have three tiers of free

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sync beyond the base version we're used to there's now free sync premium a label

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that indicates a monitor has a couple of specific additional features first off a

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monitor needs to support a minimum refresh rate of 120 hertz at 1080p

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resolution rather than the usual 60. secondly the display has to provide

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something called low frame rate compensation or

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lfr you see a display can only turn its

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refresh rate down so much if your GPU is

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struggling let's say that your GPU is only spitting out around 30 frames per

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second but your monitor can only go down to 48 this would render freesync

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ineffective so what lfr does is force the display to show some frames more

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than once essentially turning one frame into two so those 30 frames coming from

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your graphics card are treated as 60 by the monitor preventing stuttering and

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tearing so any monitor you buy with freesync premium will be a 120 or

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greater hertz model with lfr but there's a third higher tier called freesync

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premium pro which guess what is basically a rebadged

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freesync 2 HDR ok

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all right then in addition to the refresh rates and lfr requirements of

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freesync premium premium pro supports HDR without huge latency

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increases and also requires what AMD refers to as meticulous color and

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luminance certification i'd like to get me some of that

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but yeah those are some pretty vague words and it's not totally clear exactly

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what AMD means by that however it seems like these displays should at least get

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between 400 and 600 nits of brightness

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not necessarily enough for true HDR as we explained in this video but still

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more than you might see on a more run-of-the-mill monitor so let's say

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you're interested what do you need to get your freesync flavor of choice up

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and running well although freesync is an open standard it's still AMD's own

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implementation of the adaptive sync technology in the displayport spec so

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you'll need an AMD graphics card though it should be noted it'll work over an

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HDMI port as well as displayport of course you'll need a compatible monitor

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as well but while freesync and freesync premium should work with just about any

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game freesync premium pro needs specific support built into each

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individual game for the HDR features so

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check out the list of freesync premium pro compatible games on AMD's website to

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make sure the title you want to play is supported before you take the plunge now

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if you'll excuse me i'm really in the mood for a premium pro kind of lunch

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