Friday, July 26th 2013
12K Resolution Gaming Setup Renders 1.5 Billion Pixels, Costs $17,000
What do you call a person who sets up three 32-inch 4K (that's 3840 x 2160 pixels each) side-by-side, pairs three of ASUS's HD 7970 GPUs together to play games using AMD's EyeInfinity technology, all of which costs a whopping $17,000? Insane is one word, rich another or a crazy gamer? Perhaps a mix of all the three.
The setup consists of three Sharp PN-K321 4K monitors connected to three AMD HD 7970 GPUs which are together capable of pushing a mind-blowing 1.5 billion pixels on the combined 12K screen resolution, together with a Power Supply Unit that conks off in a few minutes, perhaps just not able to bear the pure awesomeness of the setup. Oh, to get the setup working, AMD put together some custom drivers to make sure that EyeInfinity works well. Before using the custom drivers, the whole rig was able to pull together a measly 8 frames per second, to be more accurate, a slideshow.
Do check out the video, for that's as close as you're ever going to get to such a glorious setup.
Source:
Extreme Windows Blog
The setup consists of three Sharp PN-K321 4K monitors connected to three AMD HD 7970 GPUs which are together capable of pushing a mind-blowing 1.5 billion pixels on the combined 12K screen resolution, together with a Power Supply Unit that conks off in a few minutes, perhaps just not able to bear the pure awesomeness of the setup. Oh, to get the setup working, AMD put together some custom drivers to make sure that EyeInfinity works well. Before using the custom drivers, the whole rig was able to pull together a measly 8 frames per second, to be more accurate, a slideshow.
Do check out the video, for that's as close as you're ever going to get to such a glorious setup.
94 Comments on 12K Resolution Gaming Setup Renders 1.5 Billion Pixels, Costs $17,000
P.S: Is the 600 series even supporting 4k ? I know the 6000 did with a driver .
I had time to watch the video as well. I'm not trolling but I honestly think that this is just a bad joke. It's really nice that AMD was giving a hand, and I also truly appreciate the enthusiasm that he is experimenting with multiply 4K monitor, but the execution looks terrible to me.
That but more monitors.
His 3x7970 will crawl in many currently released games on max settings at those rez. + no water ? just air ? poor cards.:banghead:
Reasoning: I currently have 4x7970 in my rig, with 3x standard 1920x1080 monitors. Metro LL crawls on max settings at 5760x1080 ( when you add max SSAA)
Crysis 3 crawls on max settings - not enough memory
Serious Sam 3 can crawl on max settings when you manually select maximum possible settings
Sniper Elite V2 will crawl on max with SSAA ( when you zoom-in you will see noticeable slow-down in rendering for a second)
And that's at 5760x1080. Now, with his monitors and resolutions his 3 7970s are a waste of money, or rather those 3 monitors are a waste of money, since there's simply isn't a card that can perform well at those rez in latest titles.
And once again : NO WATER 0_o.
how this has even made the news is beyond me. and 17K? spent on what o.O
However, if you read the article they did get the setup working at 60Hz, it just took 3 7970s and a bunch of extra work since is seems no one has tried this and it isn't supported by AMD's drivers.Because he isn't rich and didn't dump $17k perhaps?When did Dual-7970s become a POS system? Someone running a 3 generation old AMD x4 and a 7790 probably shouldn't be going around calling other people's systems a POS.
And you people seem to be missing that he is really the first person to document tri-4k, and you're really missing the fact that this is his blog. He did it because he borrowed the monitors and wanted to mess around with it.
I agree as well and I definitely would have tried this. Anyone trying this and reporting about it would likely have gotten the same hate from people misreading or not bothering to read the posting yet somehow finding the time to rag on it.
A 4K TV connected to a HTPC would be awesome, a 4K computer screen would be good too except no graphics card can run it properly yet, well not if you want decent frame rates.
8294400x3 monitors=24883200
How??
24883200= 1.5 billion????????
....
4k x 4=8k
whay ???
4k x3 = 12k ?????????????
ASUS PQ321Q Black 31.5" 8ms (GTG) HDMI Widescreen ...
That's about ~$10,500 for three Asus PQ321Q units. MSRP might be more though.