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freesync and gsync are more important than spending the equivalent money on the highest performing parts IMO, because they allow a middle tier frame rate experience to feel as fluid as a top performing system. Not only that, but it eliminates frame tearing. You get smoothness of motion and no frame tearing in your synced range.Ok, I see. How important is g sync and free sync at high frames, just curious if maybe I should be looking for a monitor that supports g sync fully if its really important. Thanks for the input.
Typically with AMD Freesync it's 48hz and above to the monitor max.
With Nvidia Gsync it's always 35hz to the monitor max.
After using both, and as a gamer for nearly 30 years at this point, I think it's the biggest improvement to the gaming experience in the last decade. It's one of those things that you experience and you think oh this is a nice little improvement, but it's not that big a deal, and you get used to it, and then if it's taken away you think holy crud I miss it - it's a huge deal to have it and have it taken away. That's my opinion.
I personally can't tell the difference in gaming between 75Hz and 144hz with freesync in some A/B testing I did - but I can defiantly tell when freesync is on or off.
There isn't much difference, not enough to be concerned about anyway between freesync and gsync, but frankly Nvidia typically has the better/faster graphics card market secured, and AMD has an almost as good card with an almost as good driver --- and so weigh that choice into the mix.
I'm not a fan boy of either brand - I've used many different cards and I personally would buy either without hesitation. I'd give the slight nod to Nvidia's offerings though -- if the same price and the same performance was offered and you had to pick a brand based on my last few years of experience with driver quality.
These have been my personal gaming cards in the last 5 years:
Nvidia GTX 560 (x2 with SLI)
GTX 670
AMD 285
AMD Fury X (x2 with Crossfire)
AMD Vega 56, and Vega 64 Liquid Cooled
Nvidia 1080TI
I almost like Freesync better than Gsync because Gsync has this annoying characteristic you have to figure out how to dodge in that if you exceed your monitors max G-Sync rate with your video card's max output you get a momentary studder as you enter or leave the G-Sync range. There are several work arounds, I think they are all lame. (rivia tuner doesn't work with everything, turning on V-Sync in the NVidia driver control panel limits your FPS your monitor max, but then adds wee bit of mouse lag back in because it's using vsync again). Freesync doesn't have that issue, if you exceed your monitor sync max there is no hitch The difference on the lower frame rate side favors Nvidia's gsync. The Nvidia g-sync minimum is always 35hz, and most Freesync monitors use 48Hz as the minimum to freesync range. If the option is 48Hz to 75Hz with Freesync, or 35hz to 120Hz with Gsync -- the larger sync range is going to be better and more accommodating to a larger degree of game titles. However my experience with freesync over a year span was exactly that - 48Hz to 75Hz, and I really enjoyed it without question. So long as you could keep your minimums above 48FPS it was silky smooth on my triple HP Omens. No fuss.
https://hardforum.com/threads/my-experience-with-freesync-vs-g-sync.1952358/
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