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> Also, "Hey monitor, here's a frame in a new resolution" "Right away, ma'am, I just need to wait 30ms for the next refresh and your content will be visible"

I think FreeSync somewhat alleviates that. But of course Nvidia doesn't agree to do it the same way. I do agree that video latency is atrocious. It takes longer to do a screen refresh than to send an ethernet packet across the country!



>It takes longer to do a screen refresh than to send an ethernet packet across the country!

Well you do need to consider (according to my naive estimated calculations) that:

a 1920x1080 picture is worth 4000 ethernet packets.


Does Freesync make switching monitor resolutions faster..?


No, it does not. Freesync just allows for variable refresh rates.




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