VRR monitors are becoming ubiquitous, now VESA’s certification wants to make them good
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#5YSBP)
The Adaptive-Sync-capable Asus MG279Q. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge VESA, the computer display organization behind standards like the DisplayPort interface, has a new certification program that's designed to help customers find better variable refresh rate monitors. Unlike its previous HDR certification program, which measured things like peak brightness, the new Adaptive-Sync Display Compliance Test Specification (or Adaptive-Sync Display CTS) is designed specifically for variable refresh rate displays, looking out for glitches like flicker and dropped frames.
Variable refresh rate (VRR) is a technology that allows a display to synchronize its refresh rate to the output of whatever device is plugged into it, reducing the appearance of visual artifacts, screen tearing, and frame pacing issues. When...