"All AMD Radeon™ graphics cards in the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000, HD 8000, R7 or R9 Series will support Project FreeSync for video playback and power-saving purposes. The AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2, 290X, R9 290, R9 285, R7 260X and R7 260 GPUs additionally feature updated display controllers that will support dynamic refresh rates during gaming."
So, NO, only R9 295X2, 290X, R9 290, R9 285, R7 260X and R7 260 actually use this tech for GAMING. If you don't have one of these cards YOU WON'T GET FREESYNC working in your games.
March is a long ways away, and I see no price to show it's cheaper. Toms is wrong saying this is free to implement. Scaler tech costs, testing costs etc to get the certification and display the label on your monitor. We will have to wait to see how CHEAP "FREE" really is...LOL. Considering how small the group of users is owning the AMD cards listed above that REALLY work with this (remember NV owns 68% of the discrete market as of this Q), most of us need Vid cards AND the monitor (like me with my radeon 5850). Unless AMD can prove it works with all games without waiting for them to optimize per game (in any way), and it's $100 cheaper than buying NV+monitor at the same time, I'll go NV. IF it isn't as good, even for an extra $100, I'll go NV. I'll pay for proprietary when it's actually BETTER as long as the price is reasonable and $100 is reasonable when I consider my current monitors are both 7yrs old now. That works out to $1 a month for "hey man it just WORKS" which NV has proven their solution DOES. I have my doubts about AMD's solution especially considering we still have ZERO game demos of it shown in action in reviewers hands for judgement. Hmmm...Not even a single private showing with reviewers hands off. Odd?