Friday, September 11th 2009
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition Spotted
Among the three main high-end graphics SKUs AMD has in store for this 23rd known so far (namely Radeon HD 5850, HD 5870 1GB, and HD 5870 2GB), is a fourth distinct SKU called the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition. This is a variant of the Radeon HD 5870 with specially-designed connectivity that makes setting up to six displays possible/convenient for making use of the Eyefinity multi-display technology that lets you span a display-head across several physical displays like a mosaic.
On its panel, the card has a large air-vent occupying one slot, and six mini-DisplayPort connectors occupying the other. Necessary cabling will be provided to connect to the displays. While each accelerator supports six displays in all, multiple accelerators can be installed on the same PC without any multi-GPU setup, to scale the size of the resulting display by up to 24 displays and up to 268 megapixels of effective resolution. It remains to be seen if there are similar Eyefinity Edition SKUs based on other AMD GPUs in the series, especially considering the fact that the company is also eying the business/productivity market segment.
Source:
ATI-Forum.de
On its panel, the card has a large air-vent occupying one slot, and six mini-DisplayPort connectors occupying the other. Necessary cabling will be provided to connect to the displays. While each accelerator supports six displays in all, multiple accelerators can be installed on the same PC without any multi-GPU setup, to scale the size of the resulting display by up to 24 displays and up to 268 megapixels of effective resolution. It remains to be seen if there are similar Eyefinity Edition SKUs based on other AMD GPUs in the series, especially considering the fact that the company is also eying the business/productivity market segment.
63 Comments on Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition Spotted
Personally, I'd like to see the regular version only have DVI, HDMI, Display Port, and get rid of the second DVI port blocking half the exhaust port. Then if someone wants a second DVI port, just use an HDMI or Display Port to DVI adpator. Or just stick 4 of these mini-display ports on the card and include the dongles for the different jacks...though I would be pissed if I lost one of those dongles...
and now we need new FSX game to fully use DX 11.
And mini-display? Isn't that Apple's funky standard?
They're all evil anyway at the end of the day :p Apple is just slightly more evil XD