A screen tear walks into a bar. The bartender says, 'We don't serve your kind here.' The screen tear asks, 'Why not?' The bartender points to a sign that reads 'Adaptive Sync Technologies Only.' Cue ...

The Video Electronics Standard Association has created a new 'VESA certified' adaptive sync standard, and it might replace Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync branding on gaming monitors. The organisation ...

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Gaming monitors have come a long way since the days of CRT, and even early LCD models. In the old days, the main specifications that mattered were the physical size and native resolution. As display ...

Currently, there are two competing display standards that can provide smoother gameplay and refresh rates synchronized to GPU frame production -- Nvidia's proprietary G-Sync standard, and the ...

AMD's FreeSync technology addresses one of the biggest issues in gaming: screen tearing. It achieves this by intelligently syncing the monitor's refresh rate with the GPU's output. But what if you ...

These days, virtually every monitor—certainly every gaming monitor—supports at least some form of variable refresh rate technology. NVIDIA's G-SYNC was the pioneer, but AMD's FreeSync is far more ...