{"id":206942,"date":"2017-04-13T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T06:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=206942"},"modified":"2017-04-13T08:11:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T06:11:06","slug":"xbox-project-scorpio-will-support-freesync-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/206942-xbox-project-scorpio-will-support-freesync-displays.html","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Project Scorpio will support FreeSync displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s upcoming Xbox console will feature support for AMD&#8217;s FreeSync technology, reported\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2017-project-scorpio-supports-freesync-and-hdmi-vrr\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eurogamer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Project Scorpio will reportedly support monitors with variable refresh rates thanks to its HDMI 2.1 specification.<\/p>\n<p>FreeSync support means that if the 4K gaming console cannot deliver a stable 60 frames-per-second during gaming, frame drops and screen tearing will be less noticeable.<\/p>\n<p>AMD&#8217;s FreeSync technology allows the refresh rate of the monitor to be controlled by the GPU instead of maintaining a locked 60Hz or 120Hz refresh rate.<\/p>\n<p>Eurogamer said while there are currently no TVs with support for variable refresh rates, users will be able to experience the technology after connecting the console to a monitor with FreeSync support.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s upcoming 4K gaming\u00a0console is expected to release at the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/206066-xbox-project-scorpio-specifications-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Xbox Project Scorpio specifications revealed<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s upcoming Xbox console will feature support for AMD&#8217;s FreeSync technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":199118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[577,42582,39803,42584],"class_list":["post-206942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-amd","tag-freesync","tag-project-scorpio","tag-variable-refresh-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206946,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206942\/revisions\/206946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}