Has NVIDIA silently downgraded the G-Sync Ultimate HDR specification?

An interesting observation was made today, a nifty contemporary change in the text on Nvidia’s website seems to indicate that NVIDIA has downgraded the requirements for high-end G-Sync Ultimate certification. VESA DisplayHDR 1000 requirement has been changed to “realistic HDR”.

In the past, NVIDIA applied strict qualifications to the Ultimate specification; G-Sync Ultimate required mandatory features such as VESA DisplayHDR 1000 certification and a G-Sync module. And that means a monitor should deliver at least 1000 nits of brightness performance (peak). Stuff that is tested by NVIDIA and then certified, I should mention, where they do over 300 tests.

The previous list of specs requiring 1000 nits of peak brightness

The new writing shows that 1000 Nits are changed to “realistic HDR”. And it’s a pretty fluid formulation; this value may be all you need to decrypt. Previously, HDR 1000 requirement meant that you had to pair an expensive G-SYNC module for this G-Sync Ultimate tag, as website monitors have observed very well.

What if a manufacturer offered a 400 or 600 nit monitor with a GSYNC module? Yes, in that wording even that could be labeled as Ultimate G-SYNC, and you would still pay the certification premium.

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