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NVIDIA G-SYNC Ultimate and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro were introduced to improve HDR handling at a time when HDR was still new on PC and often suffered from poor implementation and inconsistent results.
As HDR support on PC has improved, developers have largely moved away from adopting these technologies, making them mostly obsolete today.
Initially, when HDR first arrived on the PC platform, it was poorly implemented in many games due to issues such as inaccurate tone mapping, incorrect brightness handling and inconsistent HDR output.
Nowadays, most games handle HDR directly through solutions such as Unreal Engine’s HDR pipeline, proprietary game engines and console-based HDR workflows for much better HDR implementations compared to the early days of PC HDR.
As a result, developers have stopped adopting and implementing HDR through FreeSync Premium Pro and G-SYNC Ultimate. This is also why there are no new G-SYNC Ultimate monitors being released today.
There are still some new FreeSync Premium Pro monitors coming out, but the list of supported games has effectively stopped growing.
Here’s the list of supported games:
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
- Borderlands 3
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
- Devil May Cry 5
- Dirt 5
- Far Cry 5
- Far Cry New Dawn
- FarCry 6
- Fishing: North Atlantic
- Godfall
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Resident Evil 2
- Resident Evil 3
- Strange Brigade
- Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint
- Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Nowadays, if you want a true HDR experience, you’ll want a monitor with either an OLED panel or a full-array local dimming (FALD) mini LED backlight.
Newer OLED panels have also become significantly brighter, so for the best HDR image quality, it’s worth choosing a latest-generation panel with higher peak brightness, improved color luminance and updated subpixel layouts for better text clarity.
With mini LED displays, however, brighter isn’t always better.
While higher brightness helps with HDR highlights, having more dimming zones is often more important for achieving better contrast and reducing blooming.
The quality of the local dimming algorithm is also a key factor, as it determines how effectively the backlight can be controlled.
For the best HDR monitors, check out our dedicated buying guide.
In our individual reviews, you’ll find more detailed information about the displays we tested, including color gamut coverage, peak brightness at different APLs, EOTF tracking, color saturation accuracy, color temperature measurements and more.
