Last week the gaming media was abuzz with the news that the Xbox One spring update will add Freesync support on the Xbox One X and One S consoles. Freesync is a terrific technology that’s a godsend ...

AMD FreeSync is a hardware solution to the horrors of screen tearing, and the tech comes baked intomost modern gaming monitors. Software solutions like Vsync can help prevent games from becoming a ...

AMD’s FreeSync technology—like Nvidia’s G-Sync—was created to smooth out gameplay and eliminate stutter and tearing by synchronizing the refresh rate of your graphics card and your monitor. Now that ...

Adaptive sync display technologies from Nvidia and AMD have been on the market for a few years now, however it's just recently that it's become more mainstream with gamers taking the plunge thanks to ...

Earlier this year we put Nvidia's support for FreeSync monitors to the test, grabbed every FreeSync monitor we had in the office, hooked them up to a collection of Nvidia GPUs, and verified that in ...

It took a long time, but AMD has just updated its FreeSync adaptive sync technology requirements, and it was a much-needed change. Previously, the base tier of FreeSync didn’t have any refresh rate ...

Immersion is important to PC gaming, and one of the easiest ways to break that immersion is with broken frames. This happens when the rendered frames per second of the game you’re playing doesn’t ...

AMD is rebranding its FreeSync 2 technology to 'FreeSync 2 HDR' in order to reflect one of the biggest changes versus the original FreeSync spec, which is HDR (high dynamic range) support. Makes sense ...

Jacob is a tech and hardware writer with over four years of experience writing for some of the biggest PC gaming and technology websites such as PCGamer, PCGamesN, TechRadar, and now Pocket-lint. He's ...

AMD FreeSync and Nvidia G-Sync are variable refresh rate technologies. They’re designed to synchronize the refresh rate of a compatible monitor or television with the frame rate put out by an attached ...

If you're shopping for one of the best gaming monitors on the market, at some point you'll have asked yourself, 'What is FreeSync?' as you've shopped around for a new display. This increasingly common ...

It’s not quite plug-and-play, though—at least in most cases. The driver will automatically enable variable refresh rates on FreeSync displays that meet Nvidia’s strict “G-Sync Compatible” requirements ...