Wednesday, April 28th 2010
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PowerColor Designs Radeon HD 5970 4GB Graphics Card with 12 Display Outputs
While major AMD AIBs have given their creativity wings with the Radeon HD 5970, coming up with uber-high end graphics cards, PowerColor joined the party with its latest creation in the making: a graphics card with 12 display outputs! The design wires all six TMDs from each of the two GPUs into DisplayPort connectors, letting users make large Eyefinity display-heads. Each of the two GPUs is connected to 2 GB of GDDR5 memory making the total memory on board to 4 GB. The card is expected to be the thickest among others' HD 5970 designs, spanning over three expansion slots (two slot-spaces occupied by 12 mini-DP ports and one with the exhaust). PowerColor may choose Computex as the ideal launch-vehicle for this monstrosity. More details are awaited, but there's a Frankenstein picture of the card to go on.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
42 Comments on PowerColor Designs Radeon HD 5970 4GB Graphics Card with 12 Display Outputs
Gainward already had 1.
HD4870x2 golden sample.
This is btw a monster card.. love too see it running bad company 2 on 12 screens.
last gen there was the R700 revolution by Palit
;)
Overkill unless you own an evil mansion from whence to spread evildoings across the globe and you need to monitor your 12 evil henchmen doing nefarious things.
Also, how big a freaking room would you need?
But it's no different than say four 5770 cards crossfired, You'd have same 12 outputs, no need for adapters and also costs less :)
I do love the idea though, hook it up to a few 24 (inch) monitors that go for $200 each, $2400 worth of monitors later, a $200 increase in your power bill each month and no one you know will ever touch your super bowl tv setup...or WOW if your into that..
Why haven't manufacturers designed a card similar to a motherboard technology in upgradeability -- imagine having a gpu 'socket/s' so you can upgrade to a more powerful gpu, and vram 'slots' so you can add vram as you go along.
As if. would have to wire the house specifically for the system.:laugh:
edit: in your cardboard box house under a bridge somewhere because you defaulted on your homeloan buying it all ending up bankrupt!!! ! :laugh: