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Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by pkaye on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:09PM (#20286940)
> Also, "Hey monitor, here's a frame in a new resolution" "Right away, ma'am, I just need to wait 30ms for the next refresh and your content will be visible"

I think FreeSync somewhat alleviates that. But of course Nvidia doesn't agree to do it the same way. I do agree that video latency is atrocious. It takes longer to do a screen refresh than to send an ethernet packet across the country!

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Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by partomniscient on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:15PM (#20290935)
>It takes longer to do a screen refresh than to send an ethernet packet across the country!

Well you do need to consider (according to my naive estimated calculations) that:

a 1920x1080 picture is worth 4000 ethernet packets.

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Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by mort96 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:13PM (#20287599)
Does Freesync make switching monitor resolutions faster..?
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Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard by nvahalik on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:31PM (#20288316)
No, it does not. Freesync just allows for variable refresh rates.
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