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human
Respectfully, no it's not.

Screen *tearing* is when your FPS surpasses your refresh rate causing parts of more than one frame to be displayed during one refresh cycle; vsync is essentially a frame cap which kicks in once the refresh rate is reached to prevent this.

VRR/Freesync/Gsync is for when your FPS drops *below* the screens refresh rate (microstutter/blur) and tells your monitor to adjust the refresh rate accordingly (up or down within the refresh rate range) in real-time.

Edit: To clarify, I'm not advocating vsync on, in general it should be off unless you're particularly sensitive to tearing, just that VRR does not prevent screen tearing.

Edit 2: If you disagree, it's simple to verify. Turn on your available VRR without a frame cap or vsync on. Load up a game where the FPS will exceed your refresh. Look at the evident tearing. Turn on vsync or a frame cap (2-3fps below your refresh rate), watch the tearing disappear.
gpt
The best advice is to turn on VRR and then limit the fps to two or three below the cap. This way you’re always in the VRR Goldilocks zone.