Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 — Gaming On Six Panels

MojoKid writes "AMD's 6-output Radeon has been seen in action at a number of events, but today the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is being officially launched. HotHardware paired the card up with six 22" Dell LCD panels in a 3x2 configuration — with a max resolution of 5760x2160 — and ran it through a number of popular titles including Dirt 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Crysis. For specialized, high-end graphics cards like this, the market potential may be relatively small. If, however, the idea of multi-monitor gaming is appealing to you and you've got the means to score one of these cards (along with multiple displays), you won't be disappointed." Reader Vigile adds a different analysis of the card's six-monitor gaming: "PC Perspective found FPS games were basically unplayable because of the bezel through the middle of their vision while RTS and racing games like StarCraft 2 and DiRT 2 were spectacular."

Comments

Hmmm

[Stooshie]

It's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other as far as I'm concerned!

Re:Hmmm

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Its 6 of one and half a dozen of the other only on crossfire capable motherboards.

The great unwashed, with their single PCIe 16x slot, have to settle for "6 of one or half a dozen of the other"....

Re:2.72 TFLOPS

[Hurricane78]

FORTRAN doesn’t run. It limps. At best. ^^

Re:6x 22"? What about one large TV?

[srussia]

However, the frames between the monitors would drive me insane.

That's okay, I only play Tie figher sims anyway.

Re:6x 22"? What about one large TV?

[VolciMaster]

and with projector prices coming so far down, I don't see why they wouldn't be preferable now :)

Overheard at nVidia:

[nrozema]

Fuck everything, we're doing seven panels.