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Powercolor HD5970 with 12 display outputs
Computex 2010 24 screens from one PC with two cards
Mon Jun 07 2010, 12:21
BEFORE AMD starts rolling out its next generation of Southern Island GPUs, the usual performance refresh has appeared for the current ATI Radeon HD5870 single GPU and HD5970 dual GPU cards. While vendors like Asus and Sapphire focused on speeding up the cards with exotic cooling systems, Powercolor did something quite interesting that hardly anyone expected – it doubled the graphics cards’ Eyefinity capability.
As one HD5870 Eyefinity GPU card has six Displayport outputs for, yes, six displays in parallel, it shouldn’t be too difficult to get twelve Displayport outputs from a hypothetical HD5970 Eyefinity, if it existed. Well, it doesn’t seem so simple, since no vendor has had such a card until now. And, if you see the Powercolor HD5970 4 B card here, there is the third slot opening occupied by the extra six display connectors, as you can see held by pretty lady Tia at the Powercolor booth at Computex.
Now, who would need 12 displays or, for that matter, 24 displays if you used two of these cards in Crossfire? Well, imagine a mad financial wizard monitoring multiple indices and stocks across several stock exchanges or, far more interesting, an immersive 3D ‘cave’ environment with a giant dome of two dozen 3D enabled monitors truly surrounding you. With falling monitor prices and thin-bezel models all around now, you could actually build such a dome for just a couple of thousand dollars or so. The full 4GB of onboard RAM also covers both multiple high resolution displays in full 3D as well as any large-memory GPGPU computing needs.
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