G-SYNC monitors supports strobing at 85Hz and at 144Hz

UPDATE: This is old information, posted before G-SYNC was released. Blur Busters now has a G-SYNC monitor (see Our Preview of G-SYNC) with ULMB. 85Hz strobing is confirmed, however, 144Hz strobing is not available.

Good news for people who want “LightBoost” style strobing at other refresh rates, to reduce GPU requirements (85fps @ 85Hz) or to reduce input lag (144fps @ 144Hz) during low-persistence mode!

The web has revealed several clues about G-SYNC’s optional fixed-rate strobe mode:
(A) The G-SYNC upgrade datasheet has 85Hz added.
(B) AndyBNV suggested on NeoGAF the low-persistence mode is superior to LightBoost.
(C) The YouTube video of John Carmack at G-SYNC launch, was very suggestive.
(D) Many articles mentions 85Hz as a CRT frequency that stops flickering for many people.
(E) The pcper.com livestream suggests a very high fixed refresh in low-persistence mode.

Upon analysis, both 85Hz and 144Hz are available strobed modes with G-SYNC, in addition to existing common 100Hz and 120Hz strobed modes, like today’s LightBoost. More strobed modes (e.g. 60Hz) might be available. You heard it here first at Blur Busters.


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Neo
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Neo

A latency-friendly interpolation method has been developed for rendering games.

http://and.intercon.ru/rtfrucvg_html_slides/

Also, one important innovation for the ITU-Rec. BT.2020 UHDTV spec is a new side channel signaling method. This can be used to send data for very quick high-quality frame interpolation and super-resolution reconstruction. It’s a bit similiar to the above technique.

vomitme
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vomitme

I see.. using the time to the previous frame could work if there is little frame time jitter. If the frame times randomly spike, there would probably be flickering though I don’t really have an idea how bad it would be.

As for fixing the color inconsistencies, there would need to be a lot of calibration since presumably the backlight’s strobe length can change every frame. G-sync won’t magically fix the problem, but assuming that g-sync supports instantly switching between different calibrations for difference backlight modes, it is still up to the manufacturers to get the calibration data.

In any case, combining variable refresh rate and strobing backlight is much more involved than having them exclusive and I would be amazed if nvidia and/or some monitor manufacturer is able to combine the two without significant issues

boniek
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boniek

One thing that makes me wonder – why strobing is supported only on fixed refresh rate?

boniek
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boniek

Somebody make IPS panel with 1440p@85-100hz and gsync. I will not buy TN.

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