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Captain_Tom on 14 November 2014
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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Captain_Tom said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Whats the model number cause from the reviews I have seen... The Problems of TN is still there with a lot of color shift in the vertical angles as well as the colors being a saturated at the top vs the bottom. Again, my point is, first they need to get the display features right by having options such as an affordable IPS 4k display before they will widely implement things like FreeSync and G-Sync which is still, I would say, almost a year away before it really starts taking off

Ok look you are missing my point.  Freesync(Unlike G-Sync) costs very little to implement (They said some current monitors only need a firmware update).  There is no reason monitors have to wait for other things to get better to implement something that works NOW.

Well, if thats all it requires and there is no additional hardware involved then I will agree with you but from articles like this, it seems to me that it does require something cause what amd is saying is that it costs $100 less than G-Sync monitors but a monitor with G-Sync costs $200-$300+ than a similarly performing monitor without G-Sync.

In other words, if it costs $100 less than G-Sync but still costs $100-$200 more than a monitor that has about the same specs, just without FreeSync, that would mean that there is clearly some additional hardware involved which is why I am skeptical that this will be a widely adopted thing until the end of 2015-2016. If this really does become the standard right from launch, great cause then everyone is happy and I will be very excited to get one but if its not, then I do think it will take until 2016 till it really starts to take off.


It costs something extra, but it isn't much.  Here:

http://techreport.com/news/26919/freesync-monitors-will-sample-next-month-start-selling-next-year

 

$10-$20.  Plus they will probably add a small early adopters fee so I would assume an extra $50 at most instead of the extra $150 that G-Sync requires.  It won't be the standard right away, but I do expect there to be a wide selection within a few months after launch.  After 2015 it should be the defacto standard considering how big of a difference it makes for so little extra cost.