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AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30" Displays
« on: September 10, 2009, 06:40:11 PM »
Via Slashdot: "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."

Link: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/17563


Looks like I'm behind the game now, what with my paltry three 22" monitors.  :chair:
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Re: AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30" Displays
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2009, 10:07:50 PM »
Playable framerates? I mean 20FPS is technically 'playable'.  And who is going to purchase 6 of the same monitor...other than the wealthy and/or business oriented users?  Nice idea, but I would think this is more geared towards someone who needs a lot more desktop space (and I mean A LOT!  ;) ) than towards the gamer.  Still an interesting concept though.
« Last Edit: September 10, 2009, 10:10:26 PM by decepticon »
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Re: AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30" Displays
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2009, 08:47:57 AM »
6 x 30" widescreen        = $6,000 - $12,000
Vs
1 HD projector + screen = $600 - $50,000

Inconclusive?  :headscratch:

Well I would rather not have the 6 frames around each screen for gaming.  Although the article did mention working to develop screens with smaller bezels.  I would rather just go buy a large TV screen like Shoctor's.  Then you don't need the 5 extra cables coming out of your pc.

I use 4 at work.  But I suppose if I worked at ... Pixar or Dreamworks I would most likely need 6 monitors.  And companies of the like probably have some ridiculous setup that use a way higher end GPU for rendering.

I feel like i'm missing something here. :wtf:

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Re: AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30" Displays
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2009, 09:10:32 AM »
6 x 30" widescreen        = $6,000 - $12,000
Vs
1 HD projector + screen = $600 - $50,000

Inconclusive?  :headscratch:

The $600 - $50,000 range is way wide there bud.
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Re: AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30" Displays
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2009, 09:59:40 AM »

The $600 - $50,000 range is way wide there bud.


I agree, I was shocked when I saw one for $150k (which magically disappeared from google) but here's one for $75k  & $137k :hitself:

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Re: AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30" Displays
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2009, 10:13:28 AM »
Jeezus, you might as well buy a theater for that.
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Re: AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30" Displays
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2009, 10:27:23 AM »
Yeah, but at that point you actually project on the moon so the entire state can watch your Prawn

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Re: AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30" Displays
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2009, 10:56:36 AM »
Well, someone is trying to project something on the moon:
http://www.digitalalchemy.tv/2008/03/moonvertising-your-advertising-on-moon.html
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