Wednesday, May 19th 2010
PowerColor HD 5970 Eyefinity 12 Graphics Card Pictured
PowerColor's latest high end graphics card which surfaced in April, as a graphics card with the ability to run 12 displays in ATI Eyefinity arrays, seems to have finally taken shape, with the company calling it the PowerColor HD 5970 Eyefinity 12. This graphics card is based on the Radeon HD 5970 dual-GPU graphics card, but makes use of display outputs from both GPUs.
PowerColor had to extend the connectivity on a third slot with mini-Display Port connectors, as it ran out on space with two slots holding 6 connectors and the crucial air-exhaust vent. The second set of mini-DP connectors sit on a riser card, which is detachable, turning the card into a dual-slot Eyefinity6 card. To help handle 12 display heads, the card has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory spread across two 256-bit wide memory interfaces. It is capable of running large Eyefinity display heads which span across all the 12 physical displays. The Eyefinity12 card from PowerColor is expected to be launched during the Computex event, early next month.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
PowerColor had to extend the connectivity on a third slot with mini-Display Port connectors, as it ran out on space with two slots holding 6 connectors and the crucial air-exhaust vent. The second set of mini-DP connectors sit on a riser card, which is detachable, turning the card into a dual-slot Eyefinity6 card. To help handle 12 display heads, the card has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory spread across two 256-bit wide memory interfaces. It is capable of running large Eyefinity display heads which span across all the 12 physical displays. The Eyefinity12 card from PowerColor is expected to be launched during the Computex event, early next month.
36 Comments on PowerColor HD 5970 Eyefinity 12 Graphics Card Pictured
Card looks insane but I doubt many units will sell to the private sector.
Any idea for the price? BTW 4 GB memory seems to be pretty realistic for this monster.
i think, this card will sell like a hot cakes, even if this thing priced for $1000
Up to 6 or up to 12 with one model of card. Doesn't steal a third slot if you don't need the extra outputs.
To people asking why, I'm pretty sure that 90% of the potential customers will not use it for gaming but instead drive an info-terminal or something similar...
even if this card is priced like all the other regular 5970 (which probably won't),just the cost of 12 displays + display supports is just too expensive!
I can't believe we've jumped from cards that support 2 monitors to 12 in <1yr! To think 2 graphics cards could supply 24 monitors from 1 system!!!:roll:
If it's Tetris.
Eye-finity 12 seems as useful as BBQ soup for gaming, maybe in tri-fire mode you can have 36 Monitors connected!!!!
Because "More" is better.
Even 24 monitors in crossfire mode seems like an eyesore and expense not definitely not worth it.
As for using 12 monitors for gaming...does anyone have 12 15" monitors?
So one PC to run one set of monitors, or 3-6 PC's.
Example: Having the 1080p Transformers running in the store, so u make the choice u want in monitors.
Its not a gaming card at all. Its NOT FOR YOU.... don't complain lol. Sure its an interesting feat given all the stuff u used to have to do or the media rigs u had to build to get the same thing at more cost and weaker specs but yes its useless to most. I used to work in best buy.. They'll want stuff like this. For all those monitors and maybe 10 TVS at a time.