There’s good news for gamers hoping to pair their favorite FreeSync monitor with a GeForce graphics card: 28 panels now meet Nvidia’s G-Sync Compatible validation requirements, unlocking the silky-smooth gaming benefits of adaptive sync technology without any headache, hassle, or extra work.
The bad news? Nvidia says that 475 of the 503 adaptive sync panels it examined as part of of "phase 1" of its G-Sync Compatible testing failed. That’s essentially like having 5 percent a class pass the test and graduate. Ouch.
Nvidia's G-Sync Compatible initiative supplements the company's first-party G-Sync displays. G-Sync Compatible monitors are non-G-Sync displays that support the adaptive sync standard for variable refresh rates while gaming—AMD FreeSync monitors, essentially. Only models that meet Nvidia's stringent standards achieve the label, and have variable refresh rates automatically unlocked on GeForce GPUs.
