Nvidia Won’t Support G-Sync Compatible Displays on Pre-Pascal GPUs

When Nvidia announced their support for Adaptive Sync displays, the company did not state what graphics cards would support the standard. Would every graphics card that supports G-Sync work with G-Sync compatible displays? Will Adaptive-Sync monitors only work on select Nvidia graphics architectures? 

On the Nvidia Forums, a member of the company’s Customer Care team confirmed that G-Sync Compatible displays would only work on Pascal or newer graphics architectures, limiting support for the feature to Turing, Volta and Pascal graphics cards. In a short post, Nvidia confirmed that the company “do not have plans to add support for Maxwell and below.”

This means that 900-series or older Nvidia graphics cards will not support Adaptive-Sync/G-Sync Compatible displays, a factor that will undoubtedly come as sad news for users of capable 900 series GPUs like the GTX 980 Ti.