The Gaming Monitor Race - AMD Freesync will be divided into three categories
Since the start of the gaming monitor race, two terms have been on the lips of many players: NVIDIA G-Sync and AMD Freesync. Even though they both do most of the same thing, until recently there were two very different things.
Where NVIDIA relied on a physical component, which was installed in the monitor, AMD provided a software solution that was compatible with almost any monitor on the market, thus began the domination of the red team, which put a FreeSync sticker on everything.
This changed when NVIDIA took the leap and gave users the chance of the graphics cards created by the same company to use the FreeSync capabilities of the above mentioned monitors; all of the Freesync monitors. At least on paper, this worked very well, but there were also inconsistencies and various problems, but the new monitors that appeared, did not have problems in working with G-Sync. With this change, NVIDIA has also introduced three categories: G-Sync Compatible, G-Sync and G-Sync Ultimate.
With this change, the market split a little, which forced the people from AMD to come up with a solution, and it did not delay to appear. So from now on, our monitors will no longer only have AMD FreeSync support, but also FreeSync Premium and FreeSync Premium Pro. In a naming scheme slightly easier to remember than the green camp, AMD does the same thing as the competition. It offers three categories, each adding something new.
AMD FreeSync guarantees the maintenance of 120Hz at 1080p resolution or more.
AMD FreeSync Premium also adds support for LFC (Low Framerate Compensation). If your monitor fits here, you are sure it has been specially optimized for gaming.
AMD FreeSync Premium Pro is the cutting edge of this technology and applies only to gaming monitors that can provide HDR image at resolution starting from FullHD upwards and minimum 120Hz refresh rate. It essentially replaces FreeSync 2 HDR.
This is very interesting, but at the same time we are very glad to see that both AMD and NVIDIA come with real solutions for us, the gamers. We can wait to get our hands on some of new monitors that come with these new solutions implemented and see what is the real difference between these new FreeSync implementations.
