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AMD FreeSync™ technology is an AMD initiative that leverages industry standards such as DisplayPort™ Adaptive-Sync and HDMI Variable Refresh Rate, to deliver dynamic refresh rates to users. With AMD FreeSync technology, the refresh rate of a display is synchronized with the framerate of FreeSync compatible graphics cards, reducing or eliminating visual artifacts that many users are especially sensitive to, like input latency, screen tearing, and stuttering during gaming and video playback. AMD FreeSync technology can be delivered through DisplayPort™ and HDMI® connections.

To take advantage of the benefits of AMD FreeSync™ technology, users require: a monitor, TV, or laptop that supports AMD FreeSync™ technology, a FreeSync compatible APU or GPU, and the latest graphics driver. Xbox One™ X and Xbox One™ S users can also enjoy the benefits of AMD FreeSync™ technology.³

Compatible GPUs include all AMD Radeon™ graphics cards beginning with Radeon™ RX 200 Series, released in 2013, and all newer Radeon consumer graphics products that use GCN 2.0 architecture and later. Other GPUs, such as the Nvidia GeForce 10 series and newer, that support DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync, are also expected to work with AMD FreeSync technology; please check with your GPU manufacturer. 

Compatible desktop APUs include AMD Ryzen™ APUs, which require the motherboard to have a DisplayPort™ or HDMI connection.

There are now over 3000 monitors available worldwide with support for AMD FreeSync™ technology.

See the current list of FreeSync monitors 

There are now over 850 TVs in the market with support for AMD FreeSync™ technology. 

See the current list of FreeSync TVs 

Laptops containing AMD Radeon™ RX 500 series and newer graphics or AMD Ryzen™ APUs support external AMD FreeSync™ technology compatible displays. Simply connect the compatible display to the laptop via DisplayPort™ or HDMI.

Yes. The AMD FreeSync™ technology program requires all displays to go through a robust certification progress.

Listen to our FreeSync engineers talk about certification in this video 

DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync is an addition to the DisplayPort 1.2a specification, ported from the embedded DisplayPort v1.0 specification through a proposal to the VESA group by AMD. DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync is an ingredient feature of a DisplayPort link and an industry standard that enables real-time adjustment of display refresh rates required by technologies like AMD FreeSync™ technology. AMD FreeSync™ technology is a unique AMD hardware/software solution that utilizes DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync protocols to enable user-facing benefits: smooth, tear-free, low-latency gameplay and video. ​

AMD FreeSync™ technology has two key advantages over G-Sync: no licensing fees to display OEMs for adoption and no expensive or proprietary hardware modules.

AMD aims to make the benefits of FreeSync™ technology more accessible to everyone through an open ecosystem, free of licensing fees and expensive hardware modules, which encourages broad adoption and low end-user costs.

Yes, FreeSync technology has supported HDMI since its inception. Many FreeSync certified displays have supported variable refresh rate technologies over HDMI since long before HDMI 2.1 was released and HDMI VRR was adopted.  Buying a FreeSync certified display that supports FreeSync over HDMI, provides the immediate benefit of variable refresh rate, even if the display does not support HDMI 2.1.

The implementation of HDR in FreeSync™ Premium Pro differs from a conventional HDR pipeline. In the case of FreeSync Premium Pro, the display passes specifications and data straight to the PC. This allows games to directly tone map to the display, skipping bulky intermediate steps and reducing input latency. Furthermore, the baseline HDR requirements in FreeSync Premium Pro are greater than HDR 400 to provide at least twice the perceived color volume as SDR (sRGB). 

Low framerate compensation (LFC), allows AMD FreeSync technology to work when the framerate falls below the minimum refresh rate of the display. When the framerate drops below the minimum refresh rate of the display, frames are duplicated and displayed multiple times so that they can sync to a refresh rate that is within the displays refresh rate range. For example, a display with a 60 – 144Hz refresh rate, would be able to sync the frames of a game running at 40 FPS, by doubling them so that the display could sync and run at 80 Hz. A display with LFC effectively results in the removal of the minimum refresh rate boundary. All displays in the AMD FreeSync Premium and FreeSync Premium Pro tier are certified to meet mandatory LFC requirements.

Compatible graphics cards support a wide variety of dynamic refresh ranges with AMD FreeSync™ technology. FreeSync capable graphics cards can detect and set the appropriate maximum and minimum refresh rate based on the capabilities reported by the display. This means FreeSync supports up to the maximum refresh rate of the display itself.

AMD FreeSync technology has always been fully compatible with variable overdrive. Variable overdrive is a feature that our FreeSync display partners can implement in order to differentiate their offerings. Variable overdrive is independent of, and does not require, collaboration with our drivers and GPUs in order to work. As such we do not require, but do encourage, monitor OEMs to implement variable overdrive. There are monitor scaler parts used in many FreeSync monitors that can support variable overdrive, but not all monitor scalers have this advanced capability. FreeSync technology keeps costs low by not requiring an expensive module in the monitor to replace the standard monitor scaler.