This poll is unnecessary and needlessly specific.
Everyone who has Nvidia will pick G-Sync and same goes for AMD and Freesync. You might as well just ask AMD or Nvidia, because it's not like either has a choice for which monitor they use. There's only two major graphics vendors and neither will "sync" with the competing technology.
A hardware implementation will always be better but also more expensive than a software implementation of any technology. Just because something costs more money doesn't make it bad. Ask any server engineer which is better hardware RAID vs software RAID or ask a network engineer which is better hardware switching or software switching. I can guarantee they will answer hardware every time.
That is no longer the case for RAID. Software RAID implementations are overtaking hardware nowadays because you can get the full power of a multicore CPU behind the RAID implementation, which is cheaper and more portable than dedicated RAID cards.
To be fair AMD is really overpriced in how much you spend for equivalent hardware for GPU's that will work with freesync.. actually balances out to about the same price per performance value lol.
Blame the crypto boom for that. Prices for all gpus are ridiculously high at the moment, before however much of amds polaris lineup was decent value, especially when paired with the cheaper freesync options.
Yes, Free-sync monitors work with Nvidia video cards. You just don't get the variable refresh rate(automatically matches the FPS to the refresh rate of the monitor) benefit in games. Gives you smoother game play and should eliminate tearing.
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Do me a favor, would you? Link me to a screen when their earnest efforts result in a real drop.
Until then, make yourself at home! Kick back, relax, and wait for the G-Syncs to roll in from the word 'try'.
“Try” does not mean guarantee. We don’t know how often they’ve tried unsuccessfully to get a gsync massdrop and i think it’s unfair to criticize them for something that might be out of their control.
Freesync = Adaptive Sync, which is built into the DisplayPort standard. All new Displayport monitors will support Adaptive Sync. It adds nothing to the cost of the panel and doesn't require special hardware. G-Sync, on the other hand, requires an expensive special module from nVidia, raising the price of the display. This also means the display manufacturers are relying on nVidia's chip for panel control, scaling, color, etc. This takes a lot of freedom away from the manufacturer and they (understandably) don't like that. This is why you see so few G-Sync monitors on the market. I bet it won't be long at all before nVidia cards support Adaptive Sync as well. And then that will make Adaptive Sync (Freesync) a no-brainer over G-sync for display manufactures.
Adaptive sync is only a "competing technology" because NVidia wants it to be.
It's like if NVidia came up with a proprietary new display cable and stopped supporting HDMI or Displayport altogether, charging you extra by charging display manufacturers to make monitors that use their proprietary new cable. Would you defend them because now HDMI and Displayport are technically "competing technologies"?