MediaTek to Add NVIDIA G-Sync Support to Monitor Scalers, Make G-Sync Displays More Accessible
by Anton Shilov on August 20, 2024 5:30 PM ESTNVIDIA on Tuesday said that future monitor scalers from MediaTek will support its G-Sync technologies. NVIDIA is partnering with MediaTek to integrate its full range of G-Sync technologies into future monitors without requiring a standalone G-Sync module, which makes advanced gaming features more accessible across a broader range of displays.
Traditionally, G-Sync technology relied on a dedicated G-sync module – based on an Altera FPGA – to handle syncing display refresh rates with the GPU in order to reduce screen tearing, stutter, and input lag. As a more basic solution, in 2019 NVIDIA introduced G-Sync Compatible certification and branding, which leveraged the industry-standard VESA AdaptiveSync technology to handle variable refresh rates. In lieu of using a dedicated module, leveraging AdaptiveSync allowed for cheaper monitors, with NVIDIA's program serving as a stamp of approval that the monitor worked with NVIDIA GPUs and met NVIDIA's performance requirements. Still, G-Sync Compatible monitors still lack some features that, to date, require the dedicated G-Sync module.
Through this new partnership with MediaTek, MediaTek will bring support for all of NVIDIA's G-Sync technologies, including the latest G-Sync Pulsar, directly into their scalers. G-Sync Pulsar enhances motion clarity and reduces ghosting, providing a smoother gaming experience. In addition to variable refresh rates and Pulsar, MediaTek-based G-Sync displays will support such features as variable overdrive, 12-bit color, Ultra Low Motion Blur, low latency HDR, and Reflex Analyzer. This integration will allow more monitors to support a full range of G-Sync features without having to incorporate an expensive FPGA.
The first monitors to feature full G-Sync support without needing an NVIDIA module include the AOC Agon Pro AG276QSG2, Acer Predator XB273U F5, and ASUS ROG Swift 360Hz PG27AQNR. These monitors offer 360Hz refresh rates, 1440p resolution, and HDR support.
What remains to be seen is which specific MediaTek's scalers will support NVIDIA's G-Sync technology – or if the company is going to implement support into all of their scalers going forward. It also remains to be seen whether monitors with NVIDIA's dedicated G-Sync modules retain any advantages over displays with MediaTek's scalers.
Source: NVIDIA
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PeachNCream - Thursday, August 22, 2024 - link
You're joking right? TN panels are far more cost effective than OLED and in some parts of the world, the average person could sustain existence for months on the difference in prices between the two.Silver5urfer - Saturday, August 24, 2024 - link
The 300Hz monitors are not cheap either, and a few years back a panel retailed for $700. That is a junk TN panel too. BenQ still sells overpriced garbage LCD technology.These are not budget either, this is Nvidia we are talking about and then a Scaler HW in a monitor.
eastcoast_pete - Sunday, August 25, 2024 - link
Really high refresh rate panels (over 240 Hz) that often are TN type are however a special and smaller market.For everyday use and some gaming, I would, if available, rather get a really good 32" or larger HDR IPS panel (with 144 Hz or faster, Quantum Dots and miniLED FALD) than an OLED. Although OLEDs have gotten a lot more resistant to burn-in, I'm still worried that the Windows home screen 10+ hours a day would start showing up within a year or so. But, that's my use case. For gaming and watching videos, OLED is - IMHO- still unbeaten.
zeromus - Friday, August 23, 2024 - link
And here all along I've been telling people with complaints about games on their televisions to buy computer monitors, and pay extra for the matte coating if that's what it takes so they don't have to see as much room reflections in the screen as imagery. It's like we live in separate worlds.. but how did we manage to meet here...?eastcoast_pete - Sunday, August 25, 2024 - link
Slightly OT: I still find it frustrating, that few (any?) of the decent OLED TVs have Display Port connectivity. Actually, if you know of a good UHD OLED TV with DP-in at 1.4 or higher, please reply and add a link - Thanks!I find it especially annoying, as DP is an open, royalty-free standard, while HDMI (and bearing the logo) requires a paid-fot license from to HDMI.org. If two good OLED UHD TVs were otherwise about the same (price, size, panel quality etc), I'd buy the one with a DP-in connector any day, and gladly forgo the third HDMI port for it.
PeachNCream - Tuesday, August 27, 2024 - link
DP is effectively dead as a video standard. HDMI, royalties included, has emerged as the industry-accepted video interface.