AMD Crossfire Freesync Update: Delayed
by Ryan Smith on April 30, 2015 6:45 PM EST
When AMD launched Freesync back in March, one of the limitations of the initial launch version was that only single-GPU configurations were supported. Multi-GPU Crossfire systems could not be used with Freesync, requiring users to trade-off between Crossfire and Freesync. At the time AMD claimed that Crossfire Freesync support would be coming in April, however as April comes to a close it has become clear that such a release isn’t going to happen.
To that end, AMD has posted a short update on the status of Crossfire Freesync over on their forums. In the update, AMD states that after QA testing they believe that Crossfire Freesync is “is not quite ready for release” and that they will be holding it back as a result. Unfortunately AMD is not committing to a new release date for the feature, but given the fact that it’s more important to get this right than to get it out quickly, this is likely for the best.
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silverblue - Saturday, May 2, 2015 - link
Perhaps, but had this been NVIDIA spreading disparaging FUD and being late with a driver, I'm not sure you'd be so quick to judge. Bordering on Schadenfreude, if I'm being honest here. If you're not interested in FreeSync in any way, shape or form, I don't see why you feel the need to slate it endlessly in the comments. Did you know that you've posted 22 responses to this subject out of a grand total of 56?I imagine AMD won't take forever over the driver, but it won't be a week or two in all likeliness. Regardless of all the FUD, it's still better to perfect a driver than release it in an unfinished stage, and whilst I'd have preferred to see the first FreeSync monitors coming out when the software was 100%, the fact they're already out generally points to the spec itself being fine rather than any specific implementation issues.
chizow - Saturday, May 2, 2015 - link
And that's the point lol, the reason I buy Nvidia is because they DON'T need to do that, they just unapologetically develop new and interesting technology that is useful to anyone interested in gaming.Unlike AMD, they spend the majority of the time talking shit about the competition in an attempt to slow adoption or give themselves time to play catch-up. Then they release some half-assed, half-baked solution and say they need more time to fix the problems. FreeSync is just ONE MORE example.
If it comes down to a simple choice to spend a little bit more for a better supported product with fewer question marks and overall more features, it is going to be an easy choice and overwhelmingly, that choice is going to be Nvidia.
chizow - Saturday, May 2, 2015 - link
Also, did you know, out of the grand total responses from AMD fanboys and apologists, only 1 person has actually responded in disappointment to another instance of AMD overpromising and underdelivering? I mean going full Schadenfreude here, to me, its obvious the only reason AMD gets away with this kind of poor support and behavior is because their users and supporters, like you, allow them to and don't demand better.Instead, look at all the fanboy angst and anger directed at me for simply pointing out the obvious! Honestly, AMD can only burn their most loyal fans so many times before they've had enough, but it becomes more and more obvious by the day that their most loyal defenders don't actually use their products, because there is no way in hell that if roles were reversed, I would be satisfied with what AMD has put out there with FreeSync.
The ONLY way these problems are going to get fixed if AMD's actual users demand better, and in that respect, I can guarantee you anyone who buys a FreeSync panel today, reads my comments thinking I'm just some Nvidia fanboy, will appreciate them a lot more when they see these same glaring problems I've already pointed to from more responsible review sites.
Gunbuster - Saturday, May 2, 2015 - link
I would have thought AMD fans would have gotten peeved after broken enduro on $1800 laptops and then janky frame pacing on a pricy set of cards in crossfire. I guess the amount of punishment their fans will take is endless.chizow - Sunday, May 3, 2015 - link
Not to mention all the promises regarding Mantle, TrueAudio that turned out to be bogus. But yeah Enduro is such a joke, just another example of AMD reactively attempting to be feature-competitive with Nvidia, launching a half-baked broken solution and then abandoning it later.WaltC - Friday, May 1, 2015 - link
nVidia gpus & drivers are specifically designed for the aged-12 & under set, imo. They're crazy about nVidia. (Sorry, couldn't resist...;))foxalopex - Friday, May 1, 2015 - link
You know what's sad about this whole Freesync / Gsync arguement is how Freesync has become the VESA defacto standard. Technically if Intel who also makes graphics cards wanted to implement one standard or the other then Freesync would be the easier one to implement because it is the royalty free standard. In the long run I imagine Freesync will win out for this fact alone because it is the cheaper implementation and anyone can do it because the specifications are free. With Nvidia you MUST buy their ASIC to produce a monitor, there's no attempting to do it in house. Now if Nvidia freely offered up the design of that chip to competitors or offered their specifications royalty free then I wouldn't have any issues with them but history has shown that Nvidia will purposely block out competitors when given the chance.chizow - Saturday, May 2, 2015 - link
What's sad is that AMD in their BS run-up to an actual FreeSync launch has brainwashed their fans into believing this, among a bunch of other bits of FUD out there. I'll be honest when I say there's a good chance FreeSync panels are one and done if they can't fix the stated problems with it. Poor sales, unfixable problems, and AMD throwing their vendors under the bus are not a good combination when it comes to product lifecycles.gnuliver - Saturday, May 2, 2015 - link
Why should Nvidia spend millions of dollars and engineering resources developing a new technology only to immediately give it away to AMD and Intel? I am all for open standards, but without that incentive, the investment wouldn't have been made in the first place, and there would likely be no FreeSync or VESA standard on the market today.It's clear that the current VESA adaptive refresh standard isn't quite up to the standard of G-Sync. Nvidia has clearly experimented with it, as indicated by the laptop G-Sync drivers that just require an eDP display. It is also clear that the FPGA and 512 MB of DRAM within the module aren't doing nothing.
chizow - Sunday, May 3, 2015 - link
Well you know with AMD fans they all insist we NEED AMD because competition is good, but when Intel and Nvidia compete and drive innovative new tech and features, its bad and they are "competing too hard" and they should just give it away and share it with AMD.Their hypocrisy knows no bounds, I truly look forward to the day where we don't have to deal with these tech bottomfeeders sandbagging the rest of the industry.