Samsung’s new Qled TVs support FreeSync up to 120Hz

Samsung has told the Flatpanelshd ​​website that at least the Qled TVs that come out in 2018 will support FreeSync up to 120Hz. Variable Refresh Rate is also implemented in the TVs and Samsung says that the input lag is relatively low.

It is unclear what the minimum refresh rate is at which FreeSync is supported. In addition to this support, the TVs will also have Variable Refresh Rate, which Samsung says is not identical to AMD’s FreeSync. Samsung has told Flatpanelshd ​​that these are two different systems, even though both involve adapting the screen refresh rate to the source. It is unclear how exactly the implementation of both technologies differs from each other. It is also unknown whether Variable Refresh Rate is already available with the TVs from the start, or whether it will only be added at a later date via a firmware update.

Samsung has announced that the input lag of the new Qled TVs in game mode has been reduced to 15.4ms and will probably be reduced to less than 7ms due to Variable Refresh Rate. In addition, the TVs have support for the so-called ‘Fast FRC’, with which the manufacturer says that the image interpolation of the TV in combination with a game console leads to an input lag of 24ms. The interpolation would therefore also be useful for console games. The Xbox One X and One S should receive support for Variable Refresh Rate via HDMI this year.

Variable Refresh Rate is part of the hdmi 2.1 specification, announced by HDMI Forum in January and made available to manufacturers at the end of November last year. There will be no TVs with HDMI 2.1 on the market in 2018, but certain functionalities of the standard can be added via, for example, firmware updates. The standard enables higher bandwidths of up to 48Gbit/s, with which, among other things, 4k images at 120Hz or 8k images at 60Hz can be sent.