AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays

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."

Comments

Thats cool!

[ohsmeguk]

But will there be decent Linux drivers, or will they be a second thought as usual?

Re:damn!

[bencoder]

All programmers know the correct way is to have the punctuation outside of the quote marks, otherwise you're modifying the string literal that the quote marks enclose. And I don't care whether the rules say it's meant to be like that or not, if I'm quoting a piece of text which didn't have that punctuation in it then it feels dirty to move the punctuation inside the quotes.

Re:gunna be great

[Draek]

Can't wait to build a new computer in 2 years when prices go down and my computer becomes obsolete.

Such is the life of graphics whores.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are happy to play with our HD4350s and GF 6200s, and upgrading only once every five years or so, to the next bargain-bin card, whose R&D was paid by all of you :)

Re:gunna be great

[ILuvRamen]

Don't get too jumpy about this. Think about it logically. What's the point in having 6 if it acts like one in Windows? You can't fullscreen an ap like a TV Tuner viewer or media player or game on just one monitor. Just get like an 80 inch LCD for cheaper and then you can actually play a game, which you really can't do with plastic frame gaps between each of the 6 monitors. I can't stand having my crosshair halved across two displays whose LCDs are like 4 inches apart and you get that issue with 2,4,and 6 displays. It'd really be 9 or 1 as your only real options.