Thursday, September 10th 2009
AMD Demonstrates the PC's Next Act at Experience Events Worldwide
At "experience events" on three continents this week, AMD and its industry partners introduced ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, a revolutionary feature in the upcoming next generation ATI Radeon family of DirectX 11 enabled graphics processors.
This unique AMD innovation gives PCs the ability to seamlessly connect up to six ultra high definition displays in a variety of portrait and landscape configurations giving viewers a stunning new perspective on their PC experience. ATI Eyefinity is powered by one AMD graphics card for up to 12 times 1080p high-definition resolution, which approaches eye-definition optical clarity. ATI Eyefinity technology brings AMD closer to delivering true eye-definition experiences, where the display of a virtual environment is so detailed that it seems optically real to the human eye. Using ATI Eyefinity technology in a single PC, it is now possible to power displays with a combined theoretical resolution of 268 megapixels, roughly equivalent to the resolution of a 90 degree arc of what the human eye sees. For reference, today's average 19 inch LCD display typically has an image quality of only slightly more than 1 megapixel.
Set to debut in retail and e-tail outlets before the Windows 7 operating system is launched, the next generation ATI Radeon family of graphics processors is set to bring computer enthusiasts and mainstream consumers the benefits of the most powerful processor ever created. To showcase the new experiences next generation ATI Radeon graphics will bring to PC users, AMD presented:
A More Intuitive PC Experience: Making Things Simple
Further demonstrating the power of its approach to the market, AMD demonstrated how this new technology will work within AMD PC platforms to provide consumers a more intuitive experience. For example:
A More Empowering End-to-End PC Experience
ATI Eyefinity technology and the next generation family of ATI Radeon graphics processors were introduced as a part of a series of vivid demonstrations showing the next act for the PC: a total experience transformation from the moment consumers walk into a store, to easier access to advanced video processing, to the quality of entertainment experience new PCs deliver in the home or on the go.
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This unique AMD innovation gives PCs the ability to seamlessly connect up to six ultra high definition displays in a variety of portrait and landscape configurations giving viewers a stunning new perspective on their PC experience. ATI Eyefinity is powered by one AMD graphics card for up to 12 times 1080p high-definition resolution, which approaches eye-definition optical clarity. ATI Eyefinity technology brings AMD closer to delivering true eye-definition experiences, where the display of a virtual environment is so detailed that it seems optically real to the human eye. Using ATI Eyefinity technology in a single PC, it is now possible to power displays with a combined theoretical resolution of 268 megapixels, roughly equivalent to the resolution of a 90 degree arc of what the human eye sees. For reference, today's average 19 inch LCD display typically has an image quality of only slightly more than 1 megapixel.
- PCs with ATI Eyefinity technology expand game and virtual world environments to the largest ever experienced, allowing gamers to dominate the competition. For entertainment, education, and productivity applications, ATI Eyefinity practically obsoletes scrolling through vast desktop real estate that puts more information and stunning detail at users' fingertips.
- AMD is working closely with leading display partner Samsung Electronics to introduce ultra-thin bezel monitors and compatible stands that can easily be tiled to create an even more immersive and virtually seamless ATI Eyefinity experience. The ultra-thin bezels will enable customers to create their own scalable display matrix. Samsung is the first to bring these displays to market.
Set to debut in retail and e-tail outlets before the Windows 7 operating system is launched, the next generation ATI Radeon family of graphics processors is set to bring computer enthusiasts and mainstream consumers the benefits of the most powerful processor ever created. To showcase the new experiences next generation ATI Radeon graphics will bring to PC users, AMD presented:
- PCs armed with the new ATI Radeon processors, capable of rendering incredibly complex virtual environments and characters unlike anything seen before.
- Scenes and digital actors that are almost indistinguishable from reality, rendered in real-time and shown as completely interactive.
A More Intuitive PC Experience: Making Things Simple
Further demonstrating the power of its approach to the market, AMD demonstrated how this new technology will work within AMD PC platforms to provide consumers a more intuitive experience. For example:
- AMD spotlighted the conversion of a home video file for use on a personal media player in Windows 7. The technology preview showed the potential of notebooks and PCs powered by new ATI Radeon graphics processors, where users simply drag a file like an HD video produced by popular pocket cameras, and an easy, visibly accelerated conversion of the file takes place.
- The speed and intuitiveness of this popular processing-intensive task is unmatched by all-Intel platform offerings costing much more.
ATI Eyefinity technology and the next generation family of ATI Radeon graphics processors were introduced as a part of a series of vivid demonstrations showing the next act for the PC: a total experience transformation from the moment consumers walk into a store, to easier access to advanced video processing, to the quality of entertainment experience new PCs deliver in the home or on the go.
62 Comments on AMD Demonstrates the PC's Next Act at Experience Events Worldwide
It would be nice as a multi-user system... one dad can watch/read something on the net... while one kid can do its hours of daily gaming. And there's one mom who might want to check out some groceries... all from one PC. How would that sound?
Awaiting Nvidia's response! Let the WAR start!
And I still dont understand why we have to deal with black bars on a lot of video. Why call anything widescreen, then still have it show freaking black bars, make it a true widescreen so we just dont have to deal with that crap. (Not ATI's fault, just venting after seeing the black bars in the vid).
P.S. does anyone think the narrator in the video was very dull? He sounds like he is selling life insurance or something.
On a related note, we really need foldable screens.
wow 2002? Yet no commercial product out yet? Me thinks this news story was full of it.
Edit: Ah it helps to read it... OLED oops. Guess it is the little detail of actually displaying stuff on the screen that keeps us from carrying around roll up screens in our pockets.
2560x1600 is where it's at(times 24 of course)
and for fps' you can just use a 3x3 array and not have to worry about the cross-hairs being blocked
it'll happen.
I think it would be nice if lots of games would support the 21:9 ratio and then make a big as screen out of that :P.
MOVIES DO!!!!!
Methinks a quick upgrade is coming. :-P
It seem I'll have to buy a 8 way Crossfire (if that existed) to get 60fps xD
By the way, AMD wants trouble, right ?
"The speed and intuitiveness of this popular processing-intensive task is unmatched by all-Intel platform offerings costing much more"
They started it....
It's weird they didn't mention nVidia, though. It's like they don't count as a platform anymore.
Waiting for the day we plug a display port into our skulls and close our eyes for video..:rockout:
Imagine 4 of the 2GB cards and a 12 core CPU......