More than a year after the technology's initial announcement, the first displays that feature support for AMD FreeSync ? AMD's answer to Nvidia G-Sync, which should ensure that the output of the display is fully synchronized with the processing speed of the graphics card ? have finally arrived. We put two of the first FreeSync displays to the test: Acer's XG270HU and BenQ's XL2730Z, two 27? WQHD displays.

If we were asked to describe the Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync technologies in a single sentence, we would say that the technologies ensure that, through improved synchronization between display and graphics cards, games can be played smoothly even when the graphics card can only produce a limited amount of frames per second. When using a standard display, you can as a rule of thumb state that a graphics card must produce 60 fps on average for a smooth gaming experience. G-Sync and FreeSync displays, on the other hand, offer an equally smooth experience even if the graphics card is unable to produce, say, over 45 fps. The advantage is twofold: you can attain a smoother gaming experience if you have a relatively slow graphics card, or further increase the image quality when using a faster graphics card.