Posted on Friday, September 19 2014 @ 13:16 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD announced deals with the display supply chain are falling into place to make the company's FreeSync technology available sometime in the first quarter of 2015. The firm said it's working together with MStar, Novatek and Realtek to build the scaler units required by displays that offer DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync and AMD FreeSync compatibility.
We saw FreeSync demonstrated at Computex in June and since then we've been waiting for a timescale or availability announcement. At that time we were told that FreeSync support was already built-into several Radeon products and we would see the monitors compatible with the technology "soon". Now that AMD has partnered with the above named scaler unit manufacturers a broad availability target has been set for Q1 2015. That is the date from which you will start to see DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync and AMD Project FreeSync compatible monitors emerge. The scaler component will be available to monitor manufacturers "by year end". When the monitors do arrive we should notice "lower prices and wider adoption," than similar rival gaming monitor tech, according to AMD CVP of Graphics Business Unit Matt Skynner.
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The first crop of FreeSync monitors with compatible scalers from MStar, Novatek and Realtek will be FHD and QHD panels up to 144Hz, or UHD panels up to 60Hz. Beyond the headlining refresh rate sync abiliity, features such as picture scaling, on-screen display (OSD), HDMI/DVI inputs for legacy users and DisplayPort High Bit Rate Audio are all supported by the new monitor scaler hardware.
Source: Hexus
