VESA Adds Adaptive-Sync To DisplayPort 1.2a Specification

[zanny]

So it begins. A new age of tearless gaming. What will NVIDIA be able to offer more with their G-SYNC compared to this?

Do they have to do anything? It is an open standard. They don't need to sell tacked on proprietary chips for monitors when they just naturally handle adaptive vsync anyway. It is kind of like Mantle - bring out a closed arbitrary piece of shit, and motivate the open standards to get off their asses and adopt necessary technological improvements.

[amehaye]

Apparently, it actually makes the motion so smooth that you can even read moving text: http://youtu.be/gbW9IwVGpX8?t=11m7s

In that case I'm all in for that feature. Bring it on

[GraysonPeddie]

I like having a 36- or 40-inch DisplayPort monitor, which is my preferred size for my eyesight. I can do 27" but I will be reading text 2" away from the screen with a bit odd squinting (27" iMac at an Apple store). With a 38.5" monitor, I can read text between 4 to 8 inches away from screen with no magnification at all.

It will be interesting to see what tear-free gaming is like with DisplayPort 1.2a regardless of any screen size.

(Typed in Nexus 7 en route to Tallahassee.)

[clementl]

I actually don't like this feature. Smoothness of animation is achieved by a constant refresh rate. Adaptive refresh rate is going to cause jittery animation.

Apparently, it actually makes the motion so smooth that you can even read moving text: http://youtu.be/gbW9IwVGpX8?t=11m7s

[amehaye]

I actually don't like this feature. Smoothness of animation is achieved by a constant refresh rate. Adaptive refresh rate is going to cause jittery animation.

[BSDude]

Hold off buying that new monitor until the dust settles!

+1. DisplayPort 1.3 is coming out soon anyways. It should have this + 8k bandwidth incorporated.

[shaurz]

Hold off buying that new monitor until the dust settles!

[curaga]

Availability two years earlier than VESA?

[Vidar]

So it begins. A new age of tearless gaming. What will NVIDIA be able to offer more with their G-SYNC compared to this?

[Min1123]

Standards

This is great news. It means that once DP 1.2a is out on monitors and GPUs that a lot of tearing will go away. I've had all kinds of videos and video games (mostly via Steam) tear quite a lot. On NVidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs. This being part of the standard means that any 1.2a hardware will have to support it, and that's great news for everyone.