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  • StevoLincolnite - Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - link

    Taken forever for 1440P support... Should have been there day one.
    But glad I finally have it on my Xbox One X now. No more being stuck at only 1080P!
  • Brett Howse - Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - link

    Just get UHD :)
  • StevoLincolnite - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link

    Or not?

    4k is still very demanding on hardware for me to justify upgrading my PC at this time.

    My rig might be almost 8+ years old, but the 3930K+Radeon RX 580 is still pulling it's weight at 1440P. - Maybe when RAM and GPU costs come down in a couple years I might upgrade.
  • Alistair - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link

    I had a few 4k monitors and "downgraded" to 1440p 165hz. Much better. My 1080 can actually play games nicely at 90fps where I like it. Most people I know who upgraded to 4k kind of regretted it, as games look fuzzy at 1440p in comparison.
  • Alistair - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link

    I mean 1440p on a 4k monitor doesn't look as good as native 1440p on a 1440p monitor, of course.
  • StevoLincolnite - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link

    Yeah. In the same boat, I would rather have a higher refresh rate than push past 1440P to be honest.
    Hardware needs to affordably catch up to the resolution in my opinion.
  • MrSpadge - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link

    I agree - this movie & mobile inspired "4k in everything" craze doesn't make sense for PCs & games.
  • stephenbrooks - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link

    I thought it was too big of a jump for the hardware because 1080p -> 4K is 4x the number of pixels. Going to 1440p is a nice intermediate step.
  • futrtrubl - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link

    I'm hoping that the enabling of Freesync on consoles (which might make freesync tvs more attractive) spurs nVidia to allow it on their cards. I love nVidia cards (particularly their drivers) but I do not love the price of gsync displays.
  • WithoutWeakness - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link

    I really doubt Nvidia will add FreeSync support anytime soon, if ever. They have such a strong hold on the gaming GPU market right now that they can do whatever stupid anti-consumer shit they want without fear of actually hurting their business (see: GeForce Partner Program). GSync is their way of making sure that if you fully buy into the Nvidia ecosystem with a GPU and monitor it is that much harder for you to leave because you have to replace both pieces to get the same experience with AMD hardware.
  • Diji1 - Monday, April 30, 2018 - link

    G-sync uses a superior solution to reduce frame tearing and you cannot make any display you want G-sync - displays must pass quality standards set by Nvidia.
  • xeroshadow - Tuesday, May 1, 2018 - link

    "displays must pass quality standards set by Nvidia."

    Thus the increased cost to the consumer.
  • wumpus - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link

    Well, freesync is halfway there. Now all they need is to get into the TVs (wasn't it supposed to be there already? I understand GPP clubing the cardmakers in line, but TV makers is a bit odd).

    A quick check of Amazon for "TV freesync" includes plenty of 24" and ~30" ultra-wide monitors, but little in the way of your 30-40" 4K TVs that might just get 60Hz in 4K (and no more. But for such beasts a little freesync should go a long way).

    I've lusted over the over large, 4K, under priced (and probably undersynced, but that appears to be fixed in a few units, but no freesync) TVs and wondering how they would work as monitors. I'm guessing that freesync is nice, but 4K will push a Vega out of freesync territory (under 60Hz) and Vegas are still overpriced and underpowered.
  • lowphas - Monday, April 30, 2018 - link

    Many 2018 Samsung tv-s will do support VRR (freesync), and it is good to have this feature even between 30 to 60 hz range. Many 4k games on xbox one x cannot do 60 fps properly so they locked the frame rate to 30 fps to match an even ratio between the tv panel update frequency and the game fps to avoid artifacts. In this scenario it is nice to have a working vrr to reach the maximum performance of the console. 4k@30fps games can/could run around 40-45 fps on oneX. It can be a nice touch to have this working.

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