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I currently have an Alienware Laptop, with an NVidia GTX1070 gfx card. I'm after an external gaming monitor as getting a bit sick of squinting over the 15" laptop screen. I'm a little confused about GSync - does EVERY 1070 gfx card support it? If not how do I find out if mine does? What about the monitor? Do I NEED to buy a GSync monitor or is a Freesync one equally good? Are they compatible/interchangeable? Im after a curved, widescreen monitor, about 27", min 1440P display. Any recommendations?
Just get any monitor. It's bollix. Make sure it's 1080p as a minimum (as they all are) but be aware laptop GFX cards aren't as fast, so might struggle at 1440. Got a Nvidia 730 on this laptop I'm typing on - not bad from 5 years ago.... 17" though.
My son runs 3 monitors 24-27 inch on his 970.
You'll need a gsync monitor to use gsync.
And it only works with nvidia cards.
Free sync is the AMD/ATI equivalent.
Any monitor will work but to use the above features you need the right graphics card with the right monitor.
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This is not true any longer.
Nvidia released a driver a couple of months ago which now allows you to use the adaptive sync tech with Freesync monitors .
You can buy a Freesync monitor if you like, I have a Dell SG271DGF and it works perfectly with my Nvidia 1080ti card.
Do be slightly careful though as some Freesync monitors are known not to be 100% compatible.
Edit: just to clarify, the Dell SG271DGF is a 27" 144hz Freesync (not Gsync) 1440p panel. I highly recommend!
Doesn't gsync and vsync only help with tearing that occurs if you manage to get the frame rate past the refresh rate anyway, plenty of 120hz monitors about these days - a 1070 is never going to push your FPS past that on the latest games. It's useful if you run really low settings and turn off vsync to reduce your input lag in counterstrike etc - the rest of us normies can just enable vsync and have a smoother overall experience.
With Freesync, Nvidia cards will only work with display ports - HDMI is a no go.
Doesn’t gsync and vsync only help with tearing that occurs if you manage to get the frame rate past the refresh rate anyway
Nope. Works really well for low frame rates too. Even if you have a 144hz monitor running a 60FPS game, it wont necessarily be in sync with the monitor; so you might get some tearing; just less of it than if you were using a lower refresh rate monitor.
GSync / Freesync matches the two creating smoother images. But because the screen will wait a short time to show you the info, you can get more input lag.
Overclockers have a list of Gsync compatible freesync monitors.... https://www.overclockers.co.uk/monitors/by-type/freesync-g-sync-compatible
Just to add, the 10xx series upwards GPUs in laptops are comparable to their desktop counterparts now.
Mine has a fully fledged 1060 6gb (but my 17" screen has g-sync built in).
I'm building a new PC in a few weeks and selling my laptop, but this time I'm going for a decent mid-range AMD build with a freesync monitor.1