The Xbox Series X|S has this now, and Sony's PS5 will be getting it with a future firmware update. What this does is match the display's refresh rate to the frame times of your GPU, for continuously smooth, glitch-free gaming. It's one of the features (albeit optional) of the ...
VRR stands for 'Variable Refresh Rate'. It has featured in PC gaming for a number of years and has been supported by the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S since their launch, too. It took Sony a bit of time to catch up but they finally caught up and announced they'd be switching ...
All of these run below the screen's native 120Hz refresh rate, mostly around 80-90FPS. I'm checking the TV's refresh rate via its builtin OSD, it's telling me that Freesync is enabled and the refresh rate is rapidly switching between 120 and 61. If a game is running at 120FPS st...
A monitor'srefresh raterefers to the number of times the monitor refreshes itself per second. We perceive higher refresh rates as being increasingly smooth and fluid. Lower refresh rates are perceived as being both less smooth and blurrier. Hand-drawn animation can provide an analogy for how re...
Another benefit is compatibility with 120 frame-per-second signals from PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and some video cards. TV manufacturers use multiple technologies in addition to refresh rate to come up with an "effective refresh rate." Effective refresh rate means the TV...
This is a rather bizarre decision from Sony as the Xbox Series X/S consoles and even the Xbox One X/S consoles have supported VRR even on HDMI 2.0 displays. Sony's decision will result in only the handful of users with HDMI 2.1 displays being able to use this feature, with the vast ...
The reason to get the new Xbox Series S console out so early is that Microsoft sees a higher attach rate to its Xbox Game Pass on the Xbox Series S compared to the Xbox Series X. Since the company, allegedly, operates the Xbox brand as a SaaS (Soft...
Xbox Series X24Hz to 120Hz PS4/PS4 Pro24Hz to 60Hz PS524Hz to 120Hz Blu-ray players24Hz to 60Hz PCUp to 240Hz Chromecast60Hz Apple TV24Hz to 60Hz Additional Information Variable Refresh rate A source's frame rate isn't always constant, especially in games. It may drop and if that ha...
A while ago, Microsoft put itself ahead of the game by adding Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support to its Xbox Series X/S consoles. In the final week of April 2022, the feature is making its way to PS5 consoles everywhere.If you’d like to learn more about what this means, who can ...
VRR has also been made available to consoles. Microsoft made VRR support available on its Xbox Series X/S since its launch. Sony followed suit when itrolled out VRR to PS5 consolesglobally in 2022. Is Variable Refresh Rate Worth It?