AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, 2009 @07:40AM from the can't-wait-'til-it's-commonplace dept.

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."

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Re:How many slots does the card take up? by hansamurai · 2009-09-10 08:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

I would have preferred that there was some kind of external box you'd plug all the monitors into instead of all six fat cables running to the same machine that takes up three expansion slots.

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