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    No Gsync for optimus notebooks???

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by suyash691, Jul 2, 2015.

  1. suyash691

    suyash691 Notebook Consultant

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    Will optimus notebooks ever get gsync?
     
    suyash691, Jul 2, 2015
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    MahmoudDewy Gaming Laptops Master Race!

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    Short answer is no. Because Nvidia needs to share their tech with intel for them to implement on their hardware for this to work.

    And Nvidia simply doesn't share :D
     
    MahmoudDewy, Jul 3, 2015
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    Nvidia doesnt need to share anything... Gsync on notebooks is based on compatibility with edp 1.2 standard connectors whose documentation is open source(1.2 introduced variable refresh rate control used by notebook gsync)
     
    suyash691, Jul 3, 2015
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    AFAIK The connection to the display has to be through the GPU capable of utilizing G-Sync which is currently the Nvidia GPU ... this is not the case in optimus as the connection to the screen is through the iGPU ... So unless intel iGPUs become capable of the feature this is not going to happen.
     
    MahmoudDewy, Jul 3, 2015
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    You can always count on Intel HD Graphics to be an impediment and get in the way of something awesome. Solution: never buy a notebook with Optimus. It's crap... always has been, and always will be. Ditto for Enduro. Manual switching is fine... hybrid is trash. And, G-Sync is not the only feature that Optimus breaks. All notebooks suffer to some extent because of Optimus and Enduro, even those that don't use it. The lowest common denominator in mobile graphics is always a ball and chain to everyone else. It doesn't need to be that way, and it did not used to be, but that's the new status quo.
     
    Mr. Fox, Jul 3, 2015
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    Couldn't have said it better myself ... The whole iGPU/dGPU combo has only 1 very minor advantage which really for enthusiasts isn't an advantage at all :confused: ... And truck load of disadvantages
     
    MahmoudDewy, Jul 4, 2015
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    optimus breaks adaptive vsync too.
     
    thegh0sts, Jul 28, 2015
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