the scourge of gamers everywhere is screen tearing or at least it was until
tech like g-sync from NVIDIA and freesync from AMD came along to save the
day unlike the old fix v-sync these
technologies don't sacrifice frame rate and actually improve responsiveness but
unfortunately these variable refresh rate technologies are both still pretty
inconsistent in terms of how well they work and are pretty confusing with both
sides offering three different performance tiers for a feature that
really should be pretty straightforward to be fair NVIDIA and AMD do keep lists
of certified monitors but if the monitor you're considering isn't on one of those
lists it's a crapshoot as to whether variable refresh rate will even work
leaving you to rely on trial and error or on a second hand account from some
rando online and can't trust those guys
so maybe it isn't surprising that vasa has swooped in to try to both clear this
whole mess up and also make sure the tech actually works as intended and if
you don't know who vasa are they're not the credit card people thank goodness
it's an industry association that defines display standards for everything
from displayport to HDR to those holes that let you wall mount your screens
love those guys but how are they going to fix variable refresh rate like many
problems in life they're trying to solve this one by slapping a spiffy logo on
displays that actually do play nicely with vrr and fittingly the logo will say
basa adaptive sync and look a little something like this with the number
indicating the display's maximum refresh rate but how is this different from the
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
program and the lists provided by AMD and NVIDIA is that vasa is requiring
that displays get sent to an authorized independent testing facility in order to
earn the badge neither the GPU nor the monitor manufacturers can put the logo
on a specific display's box until it passes verification aka basic training
and the testing is quite stringent partly to ensure that it actually does
give gamers an adaptive sync experience that works as the good lord intended but
also partly because there are key specifications that monitor
manufacturers are notorious for fudging a big one is pixel response time which
affects how much the display will suffer from artifacts like ghosting vases
procedures require that monitors are tested at room temperature and default
settings criteria that were chosen precisely because display makers
unfortunately use high ambient temperatures and aggressive overclocks
to achieve a response time figure that doesn't always reflect reality on top of
this the vasa standard also ensures flicker jitter and dropped frames are
well within limits in short the vasa adaptive sync badge means the monitor
is good and that the actual adaptive sync functionality will work within a
reasonably wide range of frame rates something that isn't always guaranteed
on many displays marketed as gaming monitors
but if you're not into gaming there's another badge for displays that you
should know about this mediasync logo means that the screen should show most
kinds of video content without tearing flickr or other artifacts whether it's
24fps movie content or the buttery smooth 60fps video we've gotten used to
seeing on social media this testing procedure is a little more lenient than
the one for adaptive sync so it shouldn't be too hard for well-built
mid-range displays to pass note though that even though an adaptive sync badge
means the display is also media sync
i'm sure you'll see some manufacturers slap both logos onto the box to make it
look more impressive it might work with me
although these programs are very new there are already a couple of displays
from lg that earned the badges at the time we wrote this video hopefully we'll
be seeing more in the near future so our monitor buying lives can be a little
easier but do keep in mind that these vasa tests don't cover brightness HDR
quality or viewing angles so be sure to read reviews and the rest of the spec
sheet for any monitor that you're interested in you don't want to end up
with a display that runs your games flawlessly until you move your head a
little bit to the left and then and then it's
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