What is V-sync,G-sync and Free-sync?

What is V-sync,G-sync and Free-sync

So if you play games on pc then some or the other time you must have encountered these terms known as V-sync,G-sync and Free-sync and you must have thought what are these today in this blog i am going to tell you what are these terms and we are going to talk about them in detail

Before we move further there is one thing you need to know about and that is refresh rate of the monitor 

Refresh rate of the monitor

You must have heard about refresh rate of the monitors and should have thought what it is so a refresh rate of the monitor is the rate at which it can process a frame or an image

 

For example- consider that the refresh rate of your monitor is 60 Hz so it means that your monitor can process maximum 60 frames per second and not more than that similarly there are monitors with refresh rate of 120 Hz,144 Hz and even more

Higher the refresh rate better is the monitor at processing the frames per second and due to that it will be able to give a smoother quality

Now as we have talked about the refresh rate of the monitor we can now move on the main topic of our blog 

As we are talking on V-sync,G-sync and Free-sync you should keep in mind that all of these works on the same principle so let us find out what it is

Principle on which V-sync,G-sync and Free-sync works

The basic principle on which these technologies work is that they synchronizes your frame rate that is produced by your graphic card with your refresh rate of your monitor

Let us understand it with an example,suppose you have a monitor with a refresh rate of 60 Hz that means that the maximum number of frames that your monitor can process each second is 60 now if you have a powerful graphic card which can give you more that 60 frames let's say 90 frames per second in a particular game than your monitor will not be able to cop-up with it as the graphic card will send 90 frames per second but the monitor is able to process only 60 frames per second so there will be a crash between frames which is known as screen tearing and the game play will no longer be smooth you will see that the game is lagging and freezing a lot with some input lag

So in this scenario these technologies V-sync,G-sync and Free-sync comes to help us what they do is that they syncs the refresh rate of the monitor with the processing power of the hardware so if the graphics processing unit is giving more frame rates to process than the refresh rate they will reduce it's power so that it will give frames equal to or less than the refresh rate of the monitor this makes the game smoother,reduces input lag and screen tearing but at the cost of performance since it reduces the frame rate performance will also decrease 

As we have talked about the principle on which they work let us talk about each of these terms in detail

• G-sync

G-sync is a syncing technology which was introduced by Nvidia and if you have graphic card of Nvidia then you must have seen the G-sync option in the Nvidia control panel 

Having Nvidia graphic card is not enough you need a G-sync monitor that is a monitor which supports G-sync then only you can enable G-sync so if you are planning to buy a graphic card of Nvidia you should buy a G-sync monitor to enable G-sync if you need it

• Free-sync

Free-sync is also a syncing technology but it is used by Amd users so if you have a graphic card of Amd then you have an option of Free-sync and to enable it you will need a Free-sync monitor which supports Free-sync technology so if you are planning to buy a graphic card of Amd then you should go for a Free-sync monitor to enable Free-sync

• V-sync

V-sync option is available in some game itself and you don't need any V-sync monitor to enable it so basically it is a syncing technology for older monitors it also does the same job as G-sync and Free-sync you can enable it from the in game options of the games in which V-sync is supported

So if you doesn't have a G-sync monitor or Free-sync monitor but still faces the problem of screen tearing,input lag etc then you can go for V-sync

V-sync VS G-sync VS Free-sync which is better?

Now the question that will arise in your mind is that which is better so the answer is it totally depends you and your choice 

if you go for Nvidia then G-sync and for Amd Free-sync both are good and V-sync can also do the work for you so there is no comparison in this

In my opinion all the three are good but there are things that you should keep in mind like performance in all the cases there will be a decrease in performance and if you play competitive games or esports games then you should stay away form all these as you will see a performance decrease and you cannot afford to loose performance so keep that in mind 

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