Thread: New AMD Graphics Card Drives Six Displays

In the upcoming, everybody will include their individual Jeopardy-style video walls. Or at slightest that's the upcoming AMD envisions.

Besides to innovative notebook chipsets, AMD presently launch Eyefinity, an innovative technology that enables for at least six displays to be motivated off one video card.

Eyefinity will build its system into future DirectX 11-based ATI Radeon graphics cards, the corporation has said. By means of Eyefinity, you'll be capable to display up to six displays for every graphics card in several pattern, by any landscape or else portrait mode.

How insane can this acquire, you ask? At a media occurrence on board the USS Hornet in Alameda, CA, AMD verified 24 monitors hooked up to a single computer, driven by four Eyefinitiy-based cards. The four GPUs-- all lashing six 24-inches Dell LCD monitors--powered a 3D flight simulator diagonally every 24 screens.



As display bezels can be practically wide, Samsung has worked with AMD on creating ultra-thin-bezel monitors along with stands intended with Eyefinity in mentality.

Eyefinity make use of DisplayPort, in division suitable to the connector's compact size, although a representative said that HDMI as well as DVI-bases cards should be obtainable. Moreover, Eyefinity supports a notional utmost resolution of 268 megapixels. AMD notes that the normal 19-inch LCD has a resolution of a bit more than 1 megapixels.

AMD didn't declare definite price-points, but did affirm that Eyefinity-based graphics will build it into desktops as well as notebooks "at extremely reasonable prices".



The gaming employ here are obvious; there's a stack of horsepower in these cards. But AMD also hassled that Eyefinity can be helpful for universal purpose computing too, enabling multitasking to an excessive. At present this greatly screen real estate doesn't look like realistic having six screens full of open windows would be in order overload, as well as since you most likely would have to be seated back from the computer to get in all, on-screen elements would be fairly small. But maybe when resolution self-determination takes hold (where on-screen elements can be scaled up to almost any size), this type of work surroundings would make more common sense.