AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays 439
J. Dzhugashvili writes "Whereas most current graphics cards can only drive a pair of displays, AMD has put some special sauce in its next-generation DirectX 11 GPUs to enable support for a whopping six monitors. There's no catch about supported resolutions, either. At an event yesterday, AMD demonstrated a single next-gen Radeon driving six 30" Dell monitors, each with a resolution of 2560x1600, hooked up via DisplayPort. Total resolution: 7680x3200 (or 24.6 megapixels). AMD's drivers present this setup as a single monitor to Windows, so in theory, games don't need to be updated to support it. AMD showed off Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, World of Warcraft, and DiRT 2 running at playable frame rates on the six displays."
Anti-fud (Score:4, Informative)
If fud is fear, uncertainty, and doubt, then this is anti-fud.
Finally - a good basis for this: http://ergotron.com/Products/tabid/65/PRDID/196/language/en-CA/default.aspx [ergotron.com]
More details and shots of AMD Eyefinity here (Score:5, Informative)
http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-Eyefinity-MultiDisplay-Technology-In-Action/ [hothardware.com]
7680 x 3200 - that ought to increase your field of view just a tad!
Re:Thats cool! (Score:4, Informative)
For one, it's ATI, they're awful with Linux drivers. Secondly, seems like anything is possible in xorg.conf, so it's probably possible.
Re:Special Sauce for a Whopper? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Linux? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Merketing trumps reason again... ;) (Score:4, Informative)
It's the setting in which a gemstone is held, and presumably the meaning has been extended to refer to the plastic case around the edge of the monitor screen in this context.
Re:How many slots does the card take up? (Score:5, Informative)
Electricity is fun!
Re:damn! (Score:4, Informative)
The new ATI card also lets you create groups of monitors in any combination you need. 6 monitors could be used as a 3x1, 1x2 and a single.
Re:Why have LCD resolutions stalled out? (Score:2, Informative)
It hasnt happened because the smaller you make the pixels the worse your yield is. If you tried to make a 21" monitor with pixels the size of the ones on my n800 it wouldn't be profitable, you would have to junk too many because of bad/dead pixels. The quality control required for stuff like that this just doesn't make economic sense.
Re:Thats cool! (Score:5, Informative)
Go check over at Phoronix [phoronix.com] if you're curious. The ATI employed open-source driver developers post and discuss things pretty much daily.
print preview (Score:3, Informative)
Perfect. 98 MP is equivalent to 68 square inches at 1200 DPI. Finally, a pixel precise page preview for a 7.5"x9" content region. But I think you'd want this display oriented in portrait mode.
Re:Frameless monitors (Score:4, Informative)
There are a few already designed like that (by LG I think?)
And the full article mentions that they might make deals with manufacturers who want to produce Bevel-less monitors.
Re:damn! (Score:3, Informative)
becasue he want's it maximized on one screen.
I often do this with 2 screen. what I am working on is maximized, and in my 'secondary' screen there are several apps running that I monitor.
Re:Thats cool! (Score:3, Informative)
No, they are great with Linux drivers. 2.6.32 will have r600/r700 KMS (including dri2, ttm/gem) and Mesa 7.6 (due very soon) has r600/r700 3D good enough for compiz. Mesa 7.7 will have the Gallium3D r600g driver (not sure what state it will be in).
AMD/ATI has not said anything about a new arch for r800, so it is probably very similar to r600/r700 (r300/r400/r500 was another series of three that were very close) and adding it to the r600 driver shouldn't take too long/
Re:Peripheral vision (Score:3, Informative)
3 words for you: 103 inch LCD [gizmag.com].
Yay for fist size pixels. Way to go Panasonic. Useless on a PC.
Works fine as a TV though I suppose.
Re:Frameless monitors (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Frameless monitors (Score:1, Informative)
NEC makes the 46-inch MultiSync X461UN, which has a combined 6mm of bezel when mounted side by side. It even allows you to chain 4 and they will split a 1080p signal among the 4. The feature needed with bezels is to compensate for the empty pixels where the bezel is. If you don't compensate for them motion video jumps 6mm. It's enough to be distracting. The NEC compensates for it giving the bezel a window pane illusion.
In true Slashdot fashion, I haven't bothered to read the article, but hopefully the software side of ATI's solution will do this.
Edge blended projection off one playback machine will be fun with these though. It'll be awhile though before the rest of the machine will be able to render HD video at high enough resolutions to make this useful for non-gaming/rendering applications.
Re:gunna be great (Score:3, Informative)
I was briefly intrigued, until I looked around for these mythical "borderless monitors". I merely found a bunch of marketing drivel. Quoting:
link [hexus.net]. So, not borderless at all. Shame, this would actually be a cool feature.