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."

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Meh

[c0d3g33k]

I'd be happy if they could produce a GPU + drive that would adequately drive ONE display on Linux. And another thought: Multiple displays with DX11? so what? Windows as available to the general public is as quintissentially single-user as it gets, both due to technological limitations and the oh-so-very-important license restrictions. What on earth would six simultaneous displays on Windows be useful for in the real world? Contrast that with Linux, which is multi-user by design and isn't limited by license restrictions. A multi-headed setup running Linux that supported accelerated graphics on all displays would be awesome, particularly in budget restrained environments such as libraries or elementary school computer labs. Heck, even university computer labs. Seems to me they are barking up the wrong tree.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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