What is Freesync on a monitor?

[Kishan25]

Im thinking of getting a monitor and need to know what freesync is?

 

[canadianvice]

Im thinking of getting a monitor and need to know what freesync is?

Freesync and G-sync are two technologies, basically, the first is AMD and the second is NVIDIA.

The idea is that if your monitor refreshes too quickly or too slowly to match the frame rate your graphics card is outputting, it causes tearing and unpleasantness in the image.

These two technologies address this issue in basically the same way (it's just an issue of compatibility) by allowing the monitor to dynamically sync its refresh rate (essentially, FPS) to match the FPS output of the card and prevent tearing. Essentially, every time the card provides an image to draw, the monitor is ready to draw it, and it's always a new, unique frame that is drawn, rather than repeating frames since the GFX can't output enough.

Hopefully this helps! If gaming is a big thing for you, you may appreciate the reduced tearing and better visual these technologies offer. They accomplish the same thing, but are essentially compatible with only AMD xor only NVIDIA graphics cards, so if you want one, you'll need to make sure you match it up.