Last year NVIDIA company introduced the technology G-Sync, in which graphics card is able to manage the vertical frequency of the monitor that allows you to synchronize the time of preparation of the frame adapter it will eventually draw on the screen and prevent the emergence of a variety of image artifacts like horizontal gaps. G-Sync technology is able to work only with video cards NVIDIA, moreover, compatible monitors will cost extra money that ordinary consumers do not always approve.
In January at CES, AMD unveiled its response to the G-Sync, which has received speaking name FreeSync. AMD technology will be free, but also embedded in the standard DisplayPort 1.2a.
VESA says that adaptive synchronization will be useful not only directly in computer games, but also, for example, when playing a video - technology eliminates jitter that occurs when watching movies with a frame frequency of 24-25 Hz vertical scan rate monitors with 60Hz. AMD indicates that the mechanism of adaptive synchronization can be adjusted in the vertical frequency range 36-240 Hz 21-144 Hz 17-120 Hz and 9-60 Hz.
Adaptive synchronization will be maintained generation graphics solutions AMD GCN 1.1, which include video card series Radeon R9 290, Radeon R7 260 and hybrid processors Beema, Mullins, Kabini and Temash.