AMD announces 4k Samsung displays with Freesync

[Deleted member 89018]

News here:

http://anandtech.com/show/8741/amd-announces-upcoming-samsung-freesync-displays

The displays consist of the 23.6" and 28" UD590, and there will be 23.6", 28", and 31.5" variants of the UE850. These are all UHD (4K) displays, and Samsung has stated their intention to support Adaptive-Sync (and thereby FreeSync) on all of their UHD displays in the future.

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Pricing for the Samsung displays has not been announced, though the existing UD590 models tend to cost around $600 for the 28" version. I'd expect the Adaptive-Sync enabled monitors to have at least a moderate price premium, but we'll see when they become available some time around March 2015.

So... ~4 months out. That's not bad - these might start to show up around the time gsync monitors are more commonplace. Or possibly, they might start to show up and freesync will be more appealing for companies to support since there aren't any royalties associated with doing so.

 

[wirk]

There is more to this story since Samsung announced all its 4K monitors will be supporting FreeSync. Does it mean Nvidia will eventually have to bow and also support it?

 

[Pastuch]

The monitor manufacturers will choose free over licensed 100% of the time. They don't care if g-sync is available now or if it works better, it's too expensive and they have razor thin margins on displays. G-sync was doomed the day NVidia made it proprietary.