Just got a hot new G-Sync monitor to go with your NVIDIA GPU? Here's how to enable sweet, tear-free gaming on your PC and make sure you're always gaming on the right display.

Nvidia first announced FreeSync support on GeForce Pascal and Turing based cards during CES 2019. The move was aimed at letting Nvidia GPU owners use adaptive sync with a wide range of FreeSync ...

In this article we’ll be covering how to enable G-Sync for those who have Nvidia graphics cards and want to make use of the feature.

Enable G-Sync for smoother PC gaming with Nvidia graphics cards and compatible monitors. You'll need to toggle G-Sync on your monitor and in Windows. Tweak game settings too to be sure they align.

First, you’ll need to have a Nvidia GTX 10-series graphics card or higher in your PC, and you’ll need to connect your monitor to your graphics card using a DisplayPort cable, rather than HDMI.

If you want to enable G-Sync on Windows FreeSync Monitor, follow the steps mentioned in this article to do the same properly.

Wondering how to use G-Sync on a FreeSync monitor? There's a long list of support monitors, but you'll have to jump through some hoops to get it working.

Although G-Sync is proprietary and has been mostly locked to Nvidia graphics cards since its 2013 introduction, FreeSync has always been royalty-free, hence the name. What is FreeSync Premium?

G-Sync and FreeSync are their common names, but the technology underlying Nvidia and AMD’s implementations is typically known as “adaptive synchronization,” or “adaptive sync” for short.

One of the big surprises at CES came when Nvidia announced it would be bringing G-Sync support to FreeSync monitors with an upcoming driver update for GeForce graphics card owners.

This new FreeSync monitor support will go live in Nvidia's January 15 driver update. And it actually won't be limited just to FreeSync monitors that Nvidia says pass certification.