Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th
by snvzz on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:14PM
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>or else your G-SYNC monitor won't work or when your G-SYNC monitor doesn't work if you switch to an AMD GPU. ; p (Yes, the ones with the dedicated G-SYNC hardware, which aren't all G-SYNC monitors, brick when not plugged into an Nvidia card.)
This is intentional, by design. It's called vendor lock-in. NVIDIA abused their position at the time to plant g-sync screens everywhere.
Of course, later they had to adopt FreeSync like everybody else (TVs and Monitors across the industry, with HDMI and DisplayPort, Intel and AMD, on consoles and computers), but there's a significant base of sold screens with gsync modules that will tilt many GPU purchases to the NVIDIA side.
Even when they adopted FreeSync, they pressured screen vendors to use their own "gsync compatible" name for the same technology, by leveraging their market position.
This is intentional, by design. It's called vendor lock-in. NVIDIA abused their position at the time to plant g-sync screens everywhere.
Of course, later they had to adopt FreeSync like everybody else (TVs and Monitors across the industry, with HDMI and DisplayPort, Intel and AMD, on consoles and computers), but there's a significant base of sold screens with gsync modules that will tilt many GPU purchases to the NVIDIA side.
Even when they adopted FreeSync, they pressured screen vendors to use their own "gsync compatible" name for the same technology, by leveraging their market position.