It Looks Like AMD Will Support FreeSync With Their New Linux Display Stack

[liam]

I hope freesync 2.0 will require the use of a psr-like feature. This is something that, I believe, edp has supported for awhile.
This doesn't even address new screen technologies like oled which can perform partial screen updates. Maybe the display side controller doesn't expose that feature?

[pal666]

two years after windows, amd support for linux sucks

their competitor does not support linux at all

[haagch]

Would love to see that, too. Intel IGP with adaptive sync + AMD dGPU with PRIME would be a dream configuration.

No, it wouldn't. Intel doesn't care about prime. Try playing a game with intel dri3 using prime. It's completely unplayable. Intel knows that cross device synchronization is missing in their driver, they just don't do anything about it.

[andre30correia]

their competitor does not support linux at all

??? nvidia have the only good driver for unix/linux, amd have two drivers and two do not work like windows one. i can't understand why ppl thinks amd is good with linux. nothing works like it should

[timofonic]

??? nvidia have the only good driver for unix/linux, amd have two drivers and two do not work like windows one. i can't understand why ppl thinks amd is good with linux. nothing works like it should

We the humans easily resign to mediocrity, it's part of our failed essence. If we were like the fictional vulkans...

[duby229]

We the humans easily resign to mediocrity, it's part of our failed essence. If we were like the fictional vulkans...

The trekkies already got me with this one..... It's not Vulkan, It's Vulcan!

Just kidding. Don't let nvidia fanboys get under your skin, most of them lack basic fundamental common sense.

[FireBurn]

Is there a way to check if your panel supports freesync?

[Zan Lynx]

Is there a way to check if your panel supports freesync?

If the price tag was $100 more than a similar monitor than you probably have it. :-P

No seriously, it seems to be a big deal. You should have a sticker or something. It might also have an option to turn on and off in the OSD.

Here's an AMD link with some information. Not sure how up to date it is.

[theriddick]

Allot of panels got freesync as a firmware update. I do wonder if Nvidia will eventually support freesync, there is no legal reason not too and it would sure fck over AMD users who put up with terrible driver support under Linux.

[metalliax]

Is there a way to check if your panel supports freesync?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2437728

You can refer to this forum post for an updated list of all FreeSync supporting monitors.

FreeSync support is going to become pretty standard in new monitors by the end of this year. I believe there are HDMI FreeSync monitors coming out in the next few months also.