Thursday, February 18th 2010
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition Slated for March 11
AMD's Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition, a special variant of the Radeon HD 5870, is slated for release on the 11th of March, according to a recent report. The Eyefinity6 Edition makes use of the six TMDS signal lines of Radeon HD 5870 to drive six display-heads. On the connectivity front, there are six mini-DisplayPort connectors. Using the included dongles, the card can connect to six displays with full-HD resolution, which can then be merged using the ATI Eyefinity technology to form one or more Eyefinity display-heads. The GPU and memory use reference clock speeds of 850/1200 MHz (core/memory), while there is 2 GB of GDDR5 memory on board.
The other AMD product that AMD will be releasing a little sooner is the Radeon HD 5830, a performance-segment graphics card that aims at a sweet-spot price of somewhere between $150~$250, delivering performance in existing applications on par or better than the Radeon HD 4890, but with a lot more future-proofing, DirectX 11 compliance, Eyefinity support, and lower target energy draws. We expect the Radeon HD 5830 to have 1120 stream processors, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, and clock speeds of 800/1000 MHz (core/memory). The market release of Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 are strategically timed to coincide with those of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards.
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DonanimHaber
The other AMD product that AMD will be releasing a little sooner is the Radeon HD 5830, a performance-segment graphics card that aims at a sweet-spot price of somewhere between $150~$250, delivering performance in existing applications on par or better than the Radeon HD 4890, but with a lot more future-proofing, DirectX 11 compliance, Eyefinity support, and lower target energy draws. We expect the Radeon HD 5830 to have 1120 stream processors, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, and clock speeds of 800/1000 MHz (core/memory). The market release of Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 are strategically timed to coincide with those of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards.
41 Comments on Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition Slated for March 11
The graphics card industry is going in the wrong direction if you ask me. Instead of giving the option of running 6 monitors in brilliant resolutions, lets figure out how to make these cards run more efficiently, and more reliably and aimed more at the middle income consumer (that is cheaper and better forecasted to not need upgraded in a month) that has to sell older equipment in order to buy the new stuff that will never be used to its full potential. But, he'll have one lol! I honestly do not think that the system will ever be used in any practical application besides by that "one guy" that no one enjoys being around anyways because he has to one up everyone else, or you will might see it in demo mode for new games in conferences. But using all of these monitors is something that I doubt much off us will see unless we youtube it!:ohwell::ohwell::ohwell:
HD 5870 Eyefinity6 2GiB = 300w max
I'm just waiting for a professional monitor that has such small pixels that it requires a 6 DisplayPort connections. XD
The official spec documentation is not available to the public (membership required) for PCI Express.
According to a third party source, you two are correct. A summary according to that source: 6-pin has a 75w maximum with at least two +12v & ground pairs (the third pair may be omitted); maximum 2.083 amps. 8-pin has a 150w maximum with three +12v & ground pairs and an additional two grounds; maximum 4.167 amps.
Makes no sense to me but I stand corrected.
you know, safely :laugh: