Nvidia is finally addressing a perceived deficiency in implementing G-Sync in the best gaming monitors. This morning, the company announced a partnership with MediaTek that will bring G-Sync to MediaTek’s upcoming scaler chips, thus eliminating the need for a separate (and costly) Nvidia-spec G-Sync Ultimate module.
Nvidia G-Sync, like AMD FreeSync, allows a monitor’s refresh rate to sync with the rate at which a graphics card can render each individual frame in a game. Depending on the game, the frame rate can vary wildly (particularly during viewing intense, complex scenes), so technologies like FreeSync and G-Sync ensure that the monitor and graphics card are in lockstep to eliminate tearing artifacts that can occur.
