AMD announces FreeSync 2

[cobito]

The company has been developing a new technology that allows for HDR to be included at a variable frame rate without penalizing latency.

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[palotes]

I don't really understand the HDR topic on screens as a novelty. What advantages does it have? Isn't this something that has been around for many years in games? What's the novelty?

[krampak]

@palotes said in AMD announces FreeSync 2:

I don't really understand the issue of HDR on screens as a novelty. What advantages does it have? Isn't this something that has been around for many years in games? What's the novelty?

The novelty is what the news tells us, the elimination of the 30-40ms delay between what is seen on the screen and what the GPU has generated. FreeSync2 handles HDR in the GPU and it already comes rendered in HDR, eliminating said delay.