Nvidia: the validation of g

Since NVIDIA opened Adaptive-Sync on their drivers as G-Sync (compatible), display monitor vendors have been able to get a label and G-Sync validation. Obviously, obtaining this validation is not easy by NVIDIA standards.

G-Sync validation reaches 94% failure rate.

To obtain the G-Sync label, monitor manufacturers must submit their display to NVIDIA for testing. It turns out that quite a few monitors shipped to NVIDIA fail the certification test. NVIDIA obviously sets the criteria for these tests, but approximately 94% of the 475 models currently being tested have failed.

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Nvidia presented a list of 14 compatible monitors, which the company validated with G-Sync certification at CES; then in April, that number increased to 17 models. During Computex, the green company claims 28 models that meet its requirements.

We must remember that for G-Sync Ultimate, for example, 1000 nit HDR is required. So if it were 600 nits that validation would still fail.

Altogether, 536 monitors have Adaptive Sync support, 503 of which could be tested. For more than half of the displays, variable sync simply covers too small a variable refresh rate range, according to Nvidia.

To sum it up well, only 28 monitors passed the validation, 202 had image quality errors or “other” problems, and 273 failed due to insufficient ranges in the variable Refresh Rate.

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