Many of the Samsung 4K QLED 2018 TVs support AMD FreeSync technology to enhance the gaming experience with compatible PCs and consoles. The South Korean company plans to go further with support for a second HDMI 2.1 VRRR standard.
HDMI 2.1 VRRR to be seen on Samsung TVs on Computex 2018
The advent of HDMI 2.1 VRRR will not come until the end of 2019 or even 2020, although Samsung is working to add some of the new features of this standard to its existing TVs, which will be made possible by a firmware upgrade. HDMI 2.1 VRRR and FreeSync are two very similar technologies, since both work by adjusting the monitor refresh rate to match the number of frames per second sent by the graphics card, thus avoiding image and stutter cuts.
Video games are the big beneficiaries of these technologies, although they can also be used for multimedia playback, eliminating the need for interpolation or other video playback techniques when playing content outside their native frame rate. The HDMI consortium presented a Samsung TV and Xbox One X console using VRRR at Computex 2018, confirming that both Samsung and Microsoft will support this technology.
AMD confirmed earlier this year that the company plans to add support for HDMI 2.1 VRRR with a future upgrade of the Radeon graphics driver, which will support the new standard along with FreeSync. So far Nvidia has not made a statement on the matter, the company already offers its own proprietary G-Sync technology, so supporting a closed standard could cause it to lose sales and money related to this G-Sync technology.
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