by Mark Hachman 09.14.09
When AMD's new Radeon HD cards launch in a few weeks, the showstopper will be a technology the company calls Eyefinity, which can power up to six monitors on a single graphics card. At a press event outlining AMD's Vision strategy, AMD showed off a jaw-dropping 24 30-inch monitors, all powered by a single PC with four graphics cards. AMD's software combined the images, producing a single 7680-by- 3200 image using the six cards, and what apparently was a 30,720-by-12,800 image spread over a whopping twenty-four monitors. Old-timers may remember Matrox Graphics, which currently sells kits to do what AMD promises to do natively. As Jason Cross noted last night, a customer is going to be much less likely to buy from Matrox versus AMD, which actively supports its products with driver updates almost every week. Details on the new graphics cards (which include the Radeon HD 5870, with a 825-MHz core clock, 1-2 Gbytes of DDR2 memory at 5.2 GHz, and 1600 shaders, according to Fudzilla) are all NDA, and we didn't sit in on the presentation. Expect six DisplayPort connectors, without a legacy VGA connector. Samsung said it will actively support EyeFinity technology with a series of small-bezel monitors. This is critical, as gamers can now place a series of monitors right next to each other to create an eye-popping display (or, I suppose, combine a few cheap LCD TVs for the same effect). "Normally a 24-screen machine would cost about $10,000 to run, and would require four engineers and a nuclear physicist to turn it on," said Nigel Dessau, the chief marketing officer of AMD.
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