What Is Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) ?

In first-person shooter games, we often need to turn around quickly to spot enemies and shoot. This leads to a quickly changed picture on the monitor. Meanwhile, you might notice sometimes there are misaligned and torn images on the screen while playing.

This is the so-called screen tearing, and this issue especially happens when the frame rate by the graphics card is much lower than the monitor refresh rate (Hz) or there is a dramatic fps change (for example: fps goes up and down between 240~90fps as an extreme case).

G-SYNC is developed by NVIDIA and achieved by incorporating a module inside the monitor.

G-SYNC Compatible or FreeSync are both implemented through VESA Adaptive-Sync technology, if the monitor is designed to follow the VESA Adaptive-Sync standard, it should be able to conduct VRR with graphic cards in theory.

For the models that didn’t get certificated by AMD/NVIDIA but feature VESA Adaptive-Sync, we have conducted a series of tests for them on several graphic cards.

Before enabling the VRR function on your graphic card’s control center, please check the following steps on your monitor:

A.  For enabling G-Sync Compatible, please refer to the following steps:

(4)  If your monitor is not certified by NVIDIA, it will prompt the following message “Selected Display is not validated as G-SYNC Compatible.” You can still enable G-SYNC Compatible function inside the control panel.

B.   For enabling FreeSync Premium, please refer to the following steps:

(4)   If your monitor is not certified by AMD, you will see “Adaptive Sync Compatible” as the option instead. You can still toggle it to enable VRR function.