re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

Sure, but we're talking about Nvidia. They seem to be immune to competition these days. AMD released two HBM cards and freesync monitors with prices and selection that blow g-sync out of the water, and Nvidia still gained customers last quarter. Another take on it is that gsync is firmly a "premium" product and isn't going to compete for intel customers in the first place. Sure, Intel dominates when you consider the steam hardware stats, but anyone trying to squeak by with an iGPU because they only play minecraft and indie platformers and whatnot isn't/wasn't going to be Nvidia or AMD's customer in the first place, so at worst, Nvidia would lose some of its low-end customers who will see a cheaper path to smooth motion at low frames. But that brings up another point -- the effective range of adaptive sync is theoretically much wider than g-sync, but current monitors haven't reflected this whatsoever. There will have to be a solid offering of affordable adaptive sync panels that support effective ranges starting at 20 or 30Hz to support iGPU gaming on modern titles.

Still, based on Nvidia's history, they won't roll over and admit defeat even when defeated. They'll either lower the artificial price of their gsync module or enhance it with some other discriminator/gimmick, or both.