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AMD Debuts Radeon FreeSync 2 For Gaming Displays With Stunning Image Quality (venturebeat.com)
AMD announced Tuesday it is introducing Radeon FreeSync 2, a new display technology that will enable monitors to show the exact intended image pixels that a game or other application wants to. The result will be better image quality for gamers, according to AMD. From a report on VentureBeat: With the FreeSync 2 specification, monitor makers will be able to create higher-quality monitors that build on the two-year-old FreeSync technology. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD is on a quest for "pixel perfection," said David Glen, senior fellow at AMD, in a press briefing. With FreeSync 2, you won't have to mess with your monitor's settings to get the perfect setting for your game, Glen said. It will be plug-and-play, deliver brilliant pixels that have twice as much color gamut and brightness over other monitors, and have low-latency performance for high-speed games. AMD's FreeSync technology and Nvidia's rival G-Sync allow a graphics card to adjust the monitor's refresh rate on the fly, matching it to the computer's frame rate. This synchronization prevents the screen-tearing effect -- with visibly mismatched graphics on different parts of the screen -- which happens when the refresh rate of the display is out of sync with the computer.
> Freesync has nothing to do with color gamut.
Sure, but if you RTFAnandtechArticleOnTheTopic you find that Freesync 2 is:
Freesync (with guaranteed LFC) + EDID information that's _correct_ (did you know that EDID lets monitors inform video cards of their color gamut? It's true!) + an API for software to uniformly and reliably query that EDID information + some uniform and correct instructions on how to do proper colorspace transformation + a testing lab to verify that a manufacturer (whether hardware or software) is not Doing It Wrong.
Microsoft could have done #3, #4, and #5 at any point since the introduction of Direct3D (waaay back in 1996), but they've _consistently_ failed to do so.
As a long-time owner of a monitor that can display the entire AdobeRGB gamut, I'm _really_ glad that AMD is ensuring that EDID information is correct, and telling everyone how to properly do colorspace transformations. It's _waaaay_ fucking past time that this shit gets sorted out.
Here's hoping that Team Green doesn't introduce their own, incompatible way of doing the color management side of things!