even with some of the over-the-top graphic Solutions out there today that
promise Max sword performance with a price tag to match there's an old
classic problem that has been around for years that still plags Gamers even those
who own top-end equipment screen tearing tearing is what occurs when your screen
gets fed more than one frame during the
time it's refreshing the on-screen image usually torn images only stick around on
your screen for a fraction of a second but it's still enough to notice in a
large number of popular gaming titles the reason tearing occurs is because PC
video cards especially high performance ones can often Render games at much
higher frame rates than the ones that monitors run at most LCD monitors today
have refresh rates of 60 HZ which would translate to 60 frames per second so if
your graphics card is pumping out 80 or 90 frames per second you're very likely
to see screen tearing since the monitor is getting more than one image per
second in the case of games with very high frame rates is actually even
possible to have more than two partial frames drawn at a time now the most
common solution to the tearing problem is vertical sync commonly shortened to
vsync it's an option you can find in your graphics control panel or even in
the graphical settings of many games vsync forces your graphics card to slow
itself down and deliver frames at a maximum rate equal to your monitor's
refresh rate again usually 60 FPS but sometimes higher but as we all know game
games have become much more graphically demanding over the years and
consistently getting 60 FPS out of your GPU can be a challenge this is where
vsync falls short if you turn vsync on
and are playing through part of a game where your GPU can't pump out 60 frames
per second your monitor will have to wait for your graphics card before
displaying a new frame which causes stuttering and lag problems that can be
even more frustrating than screen tearing because of their inherent
tendency to happen during the most intense game moments with lots of
objects and effects flying around on the screen enter freesync freesync is a
standard from AMD that promises to eliminate screen tearing without the
stuttering associated with vsync freesync Works through a feature
included in a recent update to the DisplayPort standard called adaptive
sync adaptive sync takes variable refresh rate technology something that's
already existed mostly as a power saving measure and allows a monitor and
Graphics adapter to communicate with each other to synchronize how many
frames per second the graphics card is spitting out and the monitor's refresh
rate so there's always one and exactly one complete frame on screen at a time
adaptive sync Works between 30 and 144 Hertz so while you're stuck with a
DisplayPort connection if you want to use variable refresh rate although the
other connections will work in the case of free sync you should see a noticeable
Improvement in both graphically intense and less graphically intense portions of
your games with no tearing visible so how do you get it you might ask well to
use free sync you need a compatible Monitor and graphics card compatible
monitors have a DisplayPort revision 1.2a input with optional adaptive sync
support in the firmware then on the GPU side you can consult the FAQ on AMD's
website for the latest information but Linus you might be saying what about
NVIDIA's g-sync hadn't they beaten AMD to the punch isn't free sync just kind
of the same thing although g-sync and freesync do accomplish the same
objective there are some important differences free sync while a
proprietary AMD implementation uses the open adaptive sync standard that can be
found on third-party scalers A necessary component of any monitor while gsync
Works only through an NVIDIA built scaler module that they sell to monitor
manufacturers so AMD's theory is that thanks to its lower cost freesync will
see much more widespread adoption but inidia seems pretty confident about
gyn's chances in spite of the higher cost personally I wish we'd just get
along because the main thing for gamers who are shopping to know is that for now
if you want to run variable refresh rate Tech which you should because it's
awesome a freesync monitor will not do it with an NVIDIA graphics card and a
g-sync monitor will not do it with an AMD graphics card even though they'll
both work normally with tearing with each other speaking of things Gamers
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