WOW just wow is all I can say seeing this posted over and over by various people. I will admit I assumed as most there must be some hardware inside the monitor but it just simply is not true. Freesync is a standard that is part of DP and hence why it was only able to run there as HDMI has licensing issues, agreement issues, standards issues, and consortium issues as well as royalities for the use of HDMI.See the following links about freesync, hardware, faq and so on. https://youtu.be/go8sbI38YxI Raja Koduri speaking on Freesync over HDMI and how.AMD Freesync powerpoint on freesync over HDMI The second page is the important one, it is being added as a HDMI standard with EDID data blocks to allow for this not hardware.Pre freesync HDMI white papers http://www.amd.com/Documents/FreeSync-Whitepaper.pdf Yes there are some min hardware reuirements such as HDMI 1.2, a GPU that can do freesync some can do even more. Like Low Framerate Compensation (LFC) and so on. However the monitor requirements only has to do with better quality lcd panels not any specific hardware controller unlike g-sync.