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the scourge of gamers everywhere is screen tearing or at least it was until

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tech like g-sync from NVIDIA and freesync from AMD came along to save the

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day unlike the old fix v-sync these

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technologies don't sacrifice frame rate and actually improve responsiveness but

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unfortunately these variable refresh rate technologies are both still pretty

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inconsistent in terms of how well they work and are pretty confusing with both

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sides offering three different performance tiers for a feature that

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really should be pretty straightforward to be fair NVIDIA and AMD do keep lists

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of certified monitors but if the monitor you're considering isn't on one of those

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lists it's a crapshoot as to whether variable refresh rate will even work

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leaving you to rely on trial and error or on a second hand account from some

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rando online and can't trust those guys

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so maybe it isn't surprising that vasa has swooped in to try to both clear this

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whole mess up and also make sure the tech actually works as intended and if

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you don't know who vasa are they're not the credit card people thank goodness

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it's an industry association that defines display standards for everything

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from displayport to HDR to those holes that let you wall mount your screens

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love those guys but how are they going to fix variable refresh rate like many

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problems in life they're trying to solve this one by slapping a spiffy logo on

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displays that actually do play nicely with vrr and fittingly the logo will say

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basa adaptive sync and look a little something like this with the number

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indicating the display's maximum refresh rate but how is this different from the

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lists of monitors you can already get from AMD and NVIDIA we'll tell you right

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premium today one huge distinction between the vasa

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program and the lists provided by AMD and NVIDIA is that vasa is requiring

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that displays get sent to an authorized independent testing facility in order to

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earn the badge neither the GPU nor the monitor manufacturers can put the logo

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on a specific display's box until it passes verification aka basic training

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and the testing is quite stringent partly to ensure that it actually does

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give gamers an adaptive sync experience that works as the good lord intended but

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also partly because there are key specifications that monitor

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manufacturers are notorious for fudging a big one is pixel response time which

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affects how much the display will suffer from artifacts like ghosting vases

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procedures require that monitors are tested at room temperature and default

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settings criteria that were chosen precisely because display makers

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unfortunately use high ambient temperatures and aggressive overclocks

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to achieve a response time figure that doesn't always reflect reality on top of

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this the vasa standard also ensures flicker jitter and dropped frames are

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well within limits in short the vasa adaptive sync badge means the monitor

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is good and that the actual adaptive sync functionality will work within a

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reasonably wide range of frame rates something that isn't always guaranteed

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on many displays marketed as gaming monitors

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but if you're not into gaming there's another badge for displays that you

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should know about this mediasync logo means that the screen should show most

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kinds of video content without tearing flickr or other artifacts whether it's

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24fps movie content or the buttery smooth 60fps video we've gotten used to

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seeing on social media this testing procedure is a little more lenient than

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the one for adaptive sync so it shouldn't be too hard for well-built

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mid-range displays to pass note though that even though an adaptive sync badge

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means the display is also media sync

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i'm sure you'll see some manufacturers slap both logos onto the box to make it

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look more impressive it might work with me

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although these programs are very new there are already a couple of displays

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from lg that earned the badges at the time we wrote this video hopefully we'll

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be seeing more in the near future so our monitor buying lives can be a little

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easier but do keep in mind that these vasa tests don't cover brightness HDR

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quality or viewing angles so be sure to read reviews and the rest of the spec

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sheet for any monitor that you're interested in you don't want to end up

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with a display that runs your games flawlessly until you move your head a

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little bit to the left and then and then it's

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oh it looks horrible that's it for this video guys thanks for

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