the tech industry has a funny way of trying to make things seem exciting if
you've updated your product just slap a bunch of impressive sounding words to
the end of the name i'm looking at you apple and your upcoming iphone 12 pro
max ultra signature deluxe
but this is just what AMD has done with the latest revisions of their freesync
variable refresh rate technology if you're unfamiliar with freesync you can
learn more about it up here but in a nutshell it's a method for syncing up
your graphics processor with your screen's refresh rate in order to
prevent the screen tearing and stutter that can occur as a result of your GPU
not constantly pushing out the same amount of frames when you're playing a
game and unlike NVIDIA's variable refresh rate technology g-sync AMD's
freesync is an open standard that's free to implement hence
the name friends free set free sync now
the original freezing standard you know and love is still around and is still
quite useful however it lacks support for high dynamic range or HDR which is
increasingly popular for helping games look their best by providing better
contrast and colors that pop so in 2017
AMD came out with a revision called freesync 2 HDR which made it rather
clear that it was a 2nd gen technology and supported HDR but confusingly enough
that label is no longer around instead we now have three tiers of free
sync beyond the base version we're used to there's now free sync premium a label
that indicates a monitor has a couple of specific additional features first off a
monitor needs to support a minimum refresh rate of 120 hertz at 1080p
resolution rather than the usual 60. secondly the display has to provide
something called low frame rate compensation or
lfr you see a display can only turn its
refresh rate down so much if your GPU is
struggling let's say that your GPU is only spitting out around 30 frames per
second but your monitor can only go down to 48 this would render freesync
ineffective so what lfr does is force the display to show some frames more
than once essentially turning one frame into two so those 30 frames coming from
your graphics card are treated as 60 by the monitor preventing stuttering and
tearing so any monitor you buy with freesync premium will be a 120 or
greater hertz model with lfr but there's a third higher tier called freesync
premium pro which guess what is basically a rebadged
freesync 2 HDR ok
all right then in addition to the refresh rates and lfr requirements of
freesync premium premium pro supports HDR without huge latency
increases and also requires what AMD refers to as meticulous color and
luminance certification i'd like to get me some of that
but yeah those are some pretty vague words and it's not totally clear exactly
what AMD means by that however it seems like these displays should at least get
between 400 and 600 nits of brightness
not necessarily enough for true HDR as we explained in this video but still
more than you might see on a more run-of-the-mill monitor so let's say
you're interested what do you need to get your freesync flavor of choice up
and running well although freesync is an open standard it's still AMD's own
implementation of the adaptive sync technology in the displayport spec so
you'll need an AMD graphics card though it should be noted it'll work over an
HDMI port as well as displayport of course you'll need a compatible monitor
as well but while freesync and freesync premium should work with just about any
game freesync premium pro needs specific support built into each
individual game for the HDR features so
check out the list of freesync premium pro compatible games on AMD's website to
make sure the title you want to play is supported before you take the plunge now
if you'll excuse me i'm really in the mood for a premium pro kind of lunch
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