http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/ Edit: And, as a commenter points out, it has a Crossfire connector.
omg that is kind of point less who needs more than 3 screens and what game are you going to be able to play at a 12monitor resolution some people prefer in somecases having 1 monitor to 3 who is going to be able to afford 12 screens and the stand to hold them and you are going to need 2 of thoses cards to get even close to be playing a a 12monitor res
Urgh, this sounds nice and pointless. why 12? it makes no sense as you have the same "bezel right in the middle" problem that you get with 6. Having 9 (3x3) screens, as several people have said before, is the only logical step up from 3 for gaming. I suppose there's an arguement for 10 (5x2) or 15 (5x3) too.
I imagine there'd be custom drivers, so no official support from ATi. Unless they really like the idea.
Could this be trickling down from there professional grade cards, the idea of 12 screens for some like monitoring a system or data. I mainly keep my eye on quadro's because there better for me, but ATi fire pro's could be fecking awesome right now!
You can always get a 3x4 configuration. At that point someone would need two stands, a custom table, and perhaps a bigger room. Though one question remains. Can you even see 12 screens at the same time. Eyefinity is such a scam. Its all about 2560x1600 monitors.
Or for high level systems control. Power stations, air traffic control, security systems. I know it's based on a consumer card but I see this being aimed more towards companies/industry
It makes sense from a none gaming view, i guess theres enough people out there that could use a 12 screen setup, and this is just a cheaper way of getting it. From a gaming POV it does seem a little odd but i suppose you could use 9 instead of 12, i cant see why 9 wouldnt be supported, Or maybe powercolor have inside info on bezel-less screens?
I dont understand why they don't simply make bigger screens. Anyway, I don't think they make 3x3 stands.
Three monitor EyeFinity (or nV's 3 panel setups) are great, but 6+ is very, very bad for this reason. You mind kind of blurs over the three panel because it's peripheral vision, but when you play on the 6 panel set it feels like you're looking around at individual monitors.
jeesus, i can't even think for a non-commercial use for this, sure i could imagine it in a commercial professional environment
A card like this will be useful in like 10 years time when everyone has acess to cheap OLED monitors. The bezels on those things are practically invisible. I think someone mentioned on the blog that this could be used to run several systems off one pc in places like internet cafes, and it would save a lot power consumption.
stockbrokers will love this - have 9 screens showing stocks while having a blast on Dirt2 on the remaining 3
It's a decidedly serious case of overkill. Twelve monitors? And some 12 display-capable beast of a card? Not to mention the logistics of where this all lives and how much juice it sucks up... ugh. Enough with the parallelism already. One display, bloody big and curved around me, thanks.