ASUS Adding NVIDIA’s G-SYNC Support to Future Monitors

Updated: October 21, 2013

Asus recently announced that it will now be employing NVIDIA G-SYNC in all of it’s new monitors, which is a pretty big deal for Nvidia gaming fans.

G-SYNC makes it so that the Monitor’s refresh rate is synchronized with the GPU’s rendering rate, meaning that images are displayed at the exact moment the GPU renders them.

This gets rid of of various display problems in a lot of games like screen tearing or stuttering without the use of performance hampering settings like V-sync.

Basically it’s all of the good when it comes to smooth visuals with none of the bad. Asus plans to incorporate G-SYNC into it’s monitors beginning in 2014, with the first planned release being an upgraded version of the VG248QE at a price point of $399 in the first half of 2014.

Source: ASUS

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Leon G.

400$ seems like too much just for a monitor…
- Gibson
  
  But a active gamer with the money will of course buy one.
- danwat1234
  
  Or buy it used a few years from now
- Dev45tater
  
  That particular monitor is 144Hz and costs $280 without this upgrade. Most other 120/144Hz monitors run around $300 also, making this board’s cost to be around $100.
  - Serpent of Darkness
    
    I’m thinking $199.99 to $299.99 separately. If I am not mistaken, it has a Tegra4 core on it. Left over batches, previously meant for the NVidia Shields, that weren’t sold? I can imagine the new monitor will be more then the price you quoted earlier in a reply to me, previously before this. I’m using the 3D 120 Asus Monitor with 2ms. Suppose to have a really good response time on this at an average of 2.5 ms overall. Was original around $499, but I got it for 5% off at Newegg.
    Whether you disagree or not, NVidia is still a business. So more money coming from you = more happy NVidia. So it wouldn’t seem un-plausible to say this product will be at a premium price just like the GTX Titan.
Fiberton

Problem is it is not open use.
Ashton Harris

I’m guessing AMD will not be able to take advantage of G-sync? That sucks, now I know which company I will not be buying monitors from in the future.
- Tom Herten
  
  it’s an nVidia licenced product there not gona give it away to AMD lol.
Serpent of Darkness

The blame should be more placed on the companies who produce monitors, and less on the Video Cards. Even though, they all follow some sort of standards, I think over the past 5 years, Display Manufacturers could have come up with something similar to G-Sync to fix the fluidity problems that people recently complain about in graphic cards. NVidia just took the initiative. An alternative to it is Beta RadeonPRO’s Dynamic Frame Control (DFC) which actually works…

I think it’s kind of sad. More than likely, this will be proprietary only to NVidia cards and certain Monitor Manufacturers. It’s $399.99 to purchase it, and you have to install it yourself. There’s no benches, so we can’t really determine performance of the product. There could be some latency issues with unit. So NVidia will need to some how provide a means to give firmware updates to it. Since it has three Hynix Memory Modules on it, it could be storing some of the frame from the GPU, but I think it’s more just for storing information with the on board processing unit aka the Tegra4 chip. This will probably cause Samsung, LG, and others to produce their own version of the same thing, but probably open to both bases. Since AMD doesn’t really regulate and monitor FPS on a hardware scale, it will probably be more difficult to use on AMD Graphic Cards. AMD does it more on a software scale now with the Frame Pacing Software.
- Dev45tater
  
  Where are you reading it will be $399.99 for the board alone? It’s clearly stated that “an upgraded version of the VG248QE at a price point of $399″ will be sold. The ASUS VG248QE has been on sale for a while now. Based on that price and the ‘normal’ price of the monitor currently – about $280 – it seems the board itself will cost around $100. Yes, consumers have to install it themselves, but for someone like myself who already owns this monitor, I was very happy to hear this.
RagenRyan

So amd gives mantle and nvidia gives g sync…. man pc gaming just got a lot better!
- Serpent of Darkness
  
  AMD has PCIe Based CrossfireX through the PCIe Bus in the RX9-290. PCIe 3.0 x16 will be significant as the tech is improved.
rawlston clarke

Finally a true way forward
Chuck Dorris

#givemethecard
James Edmonds

I like the IDEA.

I do not like how it won’t work with AMD (most likely).
I do like that now AMD knows about this technology and could pull a TressFX move on Nvidia.
- Serpent of Darkness
  
  Asus, BenQ, Phillips, Viewsonic, and a few others are on board with the NVidia G-Sync upgrade for their upcoming models. Samsung can easily reproduce the same niche with their own chips, and stomp out the market. They can probably do it more efficiently. Why. 2 things. One, they have more money… If I am not mistaken, they have more money then Intel. Two, they aren’t in direct competition with NVidia and AMD on any markets. Well, NVidia may have some competition with Samsung on the Cellphone/Tablet Market with the Tegra4 Processors. So AMD could come up with something on a software or hardware level to accommodate this. Samsung could produce and market newer monitors/LCD TVs to do the same thing, with chips that serve the same function as G-Sync. Only real difference is you know Samsung products are going to work… $0.5 trillion on NVida versus $27.8 Trillion for Samsung on income…
fernando peguero

#gimethecard
Tom Herten

People complaining it’s not open source, if u were to sell a product would u want someone to sell it also? Think not and if you want it you’ll just go with nVidia period.
http://www.youtube.com/user/DarthRavan2012 Kevin Brennan

I Agree, this really saves us some Performance though i’m not really planning on getting a Monitor anytime soon. #givemethecard
Mark Nemeth

I hope it will be added to the proart series too