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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by amelius on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:52PM (#24346931)
> Monitors with built-in latency measurement.

They should start measuring the time it takes for monitors to recognize the signal when you press the "Source" button.

Even on recent monitors, it's often 5 seconds or more.

Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by modeless on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:09PM (#24347092)
Yes! I would love for more review sites to benchmark this, as well as time to wake from sleep. I have a gsync monitor that has only one input port and it wakes from sleep in like 0.2 seconds. After the experience of using it for a while, if I now had to choose between gsync and fast wake from sleep I would choose fast wake from sleep every time.
Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by Unklejoe on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:03AM (#24353328)
Part of this is because of the complex equalization that must be performed when locking to the incoming signal.

Basically, the device has to sweep through several different EQ settings until it achieves the combination with the best signal eye.

You'd think this would be lightning fast, but as it turns out, this is often handled in firmware (with hardware support for measuring the eye). I've seen this process take upwards of two seconds.

A lot of these displays probably only have one RX core, so it's not like it can remain locked to all inputs at the same time.

Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by SnowflakeOnIce on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:07AM (#24350457)
My 2019 Dell monitors take 15s :|