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Which would suggest that there is some sort of hardware element to it in the ATi solution...

Which would suggest that there is some sort of hardware element to it in the ATi solution...

I'm more inclined to believe it has more to do with certifying all those old card for just 2 displays would be more trouble than it's worth for them. From a hardware standpoint there is nothing different than old nVidia XP span modes happening here. It's just that the single GPU/single card now has more port outs.

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Brad Hawthorne
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Hm. Didn't look at it like that. Good point.

Actually, we internalised that the very definition of Eyefinity means >2 panels (i.e. greater than what we've supported for many generations), so, by definition, will previous gen support Eyefinity? No! ;) :lol:

To be more precise, will we support Display Grouping on two panels on older boards, then answer is that there is no plan to. As suggested, going back and qualifying these would not give the ROI. Evergreen has had this capability out of the gate and the qualification, validitaion and disagnostic suites have been there from the off - we cannot go back and re-qual all the partner variants of the HD 4000 series as there are so many variants that have been done prior to these capabilities being available.

To add to DaveB's comments in the interests of complete communication:

I originally defined EF as the technical capability to support HD visual field immersion from a single GPU and further specified that meeting this definition required more than the resolution capacity possible in two DP outputs. By definition, EF is not possible for generations prior to the Evergreen family.

The definition wasn't arbitrary - if I thought I could get a good HD visual field immersion result using existing technology, I would have specified that as a requirement for preceding generations such as the 7xx family. I didn't see how it was possible. A small leap forward was required. DP made the leap possible.

To add to DaveB's comments in the interests of complete communication:

I originally defined EF as the technical capability to support HD visual field immersion from a single GPU and further specified that meeting this definition required more than the resolution capacity possible in two DP outputs. By definition, EF is not possible for generations prior to the Evergreen family.

The definition wasn't arbitrary - if I thought I could get a good HD visual field immersion result using existing technology, I would have specified that as a requirement for preceding generations such as the 7xx family. I didn't see how it was possible. A small leap forward was required. DP made the leap possible.

Makes sense. Would be quite handy for 4k HD projection using 4 consumer 1080p projectors without breaking the bank. ATM, 4k HD projection is ungodly expensive for a single projector, but enable spanning on a single card to 4 projectors and you brought that accessibility to the home theater enthusiast market.

The only issue I have is that you can't use the driver to edge blend yet. Edge blending is the only roadblock I can see keeping 4k HD as another potential goal of EyeFinity. I would suggest looking into ImmersiView's Sol7 pre-warping software for a few advanced ideas on some options relating to projection utilities, edge blending and pre-warping.

Keep in mind while EyeFinity has a solid focus on LCD display at the moment, that another logical use is also accommodating projection settings into the drivers later on.

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Brad Hawthorne
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Mersive has done it using a Six. It was demoed on the Hornet.

http://www.mersive.com/

It would be cool if the driver had the hooks to allow anyone to do that. I will add it to the list. Be aware the list is growing much faster than the resource base.

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