LG’s 2020 OLED TVs recently gained via firmware update a key new gaming feature that the brand’s 2019 OLED sets don’t have: support for the AMD FreeSync variable refresh rate system. This led to much speculation among 2019 LG OLED owners about whether FreeSync support might end up being rolled out to their TVs, too. However, LG’s product planning team has now confirmed to me that this is not going to happen.
LG’s 2019 OLEDs do support NVIDIA’s G-Sync VRR system, but confirmation that they will not be getting FreeSync as well will come as a blow to LG 2019 OLED owners who game on PCs with Freesync-capable graphics cards and/or the Freesync-enabled Xbox One S/X and upcoming Xbox Series X consoles.
It’s important to remember at this point that LG has a proud reputation of arguably doing more to cater for console and PC gamers than any of its TV brand rivals. Since 2019, for instance, LG has ensured that all four HDMI ports on its OLED TVs have been able to handle such gaming features as NVIDIA/HDMI 2.1 VRR, automatic low latency mode switching, and 4K feeds at 120 frames a second.
By comparison, even in 2020 its TV rivals either only offer such features on one or two models in their ranges, or else only support them on one or two HDMI ports, rather than all four.
The Xbox Series X will support AMD FreeSync - but LG's 2019 OLED TVs will not.
Photo: The Xbox Series X (Microsoft)It may well be, too, that precious few games end up appearing on the current or next-generation gaming platforms that might make serious use of the Freesync VRR system.
LG 2019 OLED owners may also take some solace from the way the HDMIs on their sets support the full 48Gbps capacity of the HDMI 2.1 standard, while LG’s 2020 TVs have settled on 40Gbps. Though as I discuss in this separate article on the unexpected change in LG’s HDMI approach for 2020, the extra 8Gbps is only useful for carrying 12-bit video - at a time when there are currently no 12-bit TVs.
It’s not clear from LG’s statement to me whether its 2019 OLEDs simply aren’t capable of handling FreeSync VRR, or whether not adding FreeSync support to them is a commercial decision. I guess LG 2019 OLED owners might find a glimmer of hope in the first three words of this line from LG’s statement: “At this point, we don’t have plans to support the feature for the 2019 models”. For the most part, though, I’d have to say the tone of the response felt pretty final.
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