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hey Ron this is Steve from gamers Nexus tonight still at CES 2015 we have a bunch of coverage on all online already all this coverage brought to you by cyber power and the new cyber vapor gaming PC this is Andy's freesync technology we saw this at CES last year it's finally here it's a few weeks away and free sync is unlike g-sync it's a totally free effectively Hardware les design it's sort of like flipping a bit in the display most of the display panel manufacturers are supporting free sync now about 95% of them so it's looking good for the tech and we can see it here with this windmill display which is what was on display last year it's just been amped up a bit and then there's also a tomb raider display that will be rolling in for you so the main thing with free sync is like G sync it is eliminating tearing and stuttering vsync we generally recommend in our game guides to disable because it's introducing stuttering and in a lot of cases we'd prefer tearing tearing looks like this where your your get it looks like the textures are sort of lagging behind what our frame rate is with free sync on the display is slaving to the GPU so it's an adaptive refresh rate and with it off we're hitting in the instance of this 60 Hertz monitor the the monitor is expecting a frame from the GPU every 16 milliseconds so if the GPU misses that mark then you're displaying a frame again and that's where where we get the issues one item of note with free sync as opposed to gsync is that it will be compatible if you run a non-native resolution on the display and there aren't a lot of use cases for this but in htpc environments you might want to run a lower than native resolution because from a far back distance you don't want the text and things like that to be too small and it'll still look fine on 720 so freesync is compatible in that use case scenario in terms of video card support it's compatible with effectively every current AMD GPU and current apu but it is not compatible with e2 70 or 280 the chip is current gen but the display controller is last gen so 270 and 280 will not be supporting freesync but the next gen is expected to support it other than that panel support and display support it works on 1440 at 144 Hertz it works on 4k at 6 Hertz 2560 ultra-wide 2560 by 1080 is compatible as well so you've got every monitor resolution refresh rate and most the GPS there's a marginal price increase for testing and validation reasons but we're told that it should not be quite as big a jump as g-sync is and we'll follow up with coverage on that so that is free sink check the link in the description below for more coverage on this and I will see you all next time you