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I think I'd like to see one in person. Tearing is kind of annoying, but I don't know how a variable framerate would look. Most likely clearly better, but it could possibly seem odd.
Nvidia's G-Sync monitor tech makes PC games look smooth as silk
Nvidia's G-Sync monitor tech makes PC games look smooth as silk
Posted: 09 Jan 2014
SourceAt CES 2014, Nvidia is demonstrating an interesting new display technology that it first announced back in October. Called G-Sync, it’s a circuit board that display manufacturers mount inside the monitors they sell—it can’t be added to an existing display. The board eliminates annoying visual artifacts such as tearing and stuttering by synchronizing the display’s refresh rate to the video card’s output.
Today’s video displays have a fixed refresh rate, such as 60-, 120-, or more cycles per second. That’s perfectly fine when you’re watching a video, because its frames arrive at the display in lockstep with the display’s refresh rate. But when you’re playing a game, the video card outputs each frame as soon as it’s rendered. So its refresh rate is highly variable, because some scenes take longer to render than others.
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