ASUS To Have Exclusive Rights Over G-Sync

Nvidia’s G-SYNC is rumored to be exclusive to ASUS until late 2014. G-Sync is both a software and a hardware solution that will solve screen tearing and stuttering. A daughter hardware board is placed into a G-Sync enabled monitor which will do something very interesting. It is now reported that ASUS signed an exclusive deal with Nvidia. Something I would not be happy about.

Swedish website sweclockers claims that the first wave G-Sync will be introduced in monitors with a 120 to 144 Hz refresh rate. The first screen was already announced by ASUS, which is the VG248QE with a price tag of roughly €300 / $412 / £257, price that reportedly will go higher.

This means that other manufacturers will have to wait until the third or fourth quarter of 2013 before they can integrate it into their monitors. In the end if this information is right it will be a bad deal for the consumers as exclusivity drives prices upwards, which is exactly something you do not want to happen with new technology.

If all this is true, then the decision made could impact and even deny other manufacturers like BenQ, Philips and Viewsonic the ability to provide a variety of products, leading to slow adoption rate and sale decrease.

Thank you Guru 3D for providing us with this information