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I suspect there is some misinformation going on here. Vesa's adaptive sync is the open standard. Freesync is AMD's proprietary or Brand name for it, which is trade marked BY AMD. Because AMD was the only manufacture using the Vesa open standard, people correlate freesync as being the open stand, which it is not. It is just AMD's trade marked name for it, and cannot be used with out their permission.

Hence, why it shows the TM after it's use in many of the places on AMD's own site:

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/free-sync


The royalty free part you are referring to, is ONLY for monitor manufactures:

Taken straight from their faq:



AMD has undertaken efforts to encourage broad adoption for Radeon FreeSync technology, including:

  • Royalty-free licensing for monitor manufacturers;
  • Open and standardized monitor requirements (e.g. no non-standard display controllers or ASICs);
  • Industry-standard implementation via the DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync amendment to the DisplayPort 1.2a specification; and
  • interoperability with existing monitor technologies.


https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/free-sync-faq


Nvidia is free to use the open Vesa adaptive sync standard, they just can't use FreeSync in it's name or description in any shape or form without AMD's approval/license.

Jen explicitly used the words "adaptive sync" to describe generic vrr without a gsync module. That was always the neutral term.
 
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