Asus Announces G-Sync Enhanced VG248QE Monitor

[Serpent of Heaven]

I wonder what AMD is going to do about this? Let's hope ATi's engineers save the day one more time.

No offense, but AMD really doesn't need to do anything. One, they have Frame Pacing Software, and in January 2014, they will have it for Surround. Two, from what I have read about NVidia G-Sync, you're going to be capped on the FPS Bandwidth. So say for example you play a game like COD, and you get over 243 FPS 60% of the time, and you drop to 143 for the remainder. That's your lows and highs. With G-Sync, and the fact that your monitor is only 144hz or 60 hz, you are going to be locked in between 144 hz, or 60 hz. Your minimum will be 30 hz. It could probably go below that. You won't see that 243 FPS because G-Sync squeezes your frame rate bandwidth. It's being shrunk for more consistent frames. Third thing, in 2014 to 2015, you're going to start to see monitors that can support 240 hz, or less than 5.0 ms frame times. There's already true 240 hz TVs on the market, and 480 Hz TVs are starting to appear. So if your computer is spitting out 169 FPS, you won't have a single dropped frame, runt frame, screen tear, ghosting, etc... You can't see every 5.0 ms window to see or not see a frame.

G-Sync will be that little known NVidia Niche that came and went in a short time. Either that, or NVidia will continue to refine G-Sync, but it won't be necessary because the real issue is the static refresh rate on your monitor. It's not keeping up with the FPS performance of your Graphic Card.