ATI Announces HD 5870 Eyefinity6

[suiken_2mieu]

I am wondering if mini dp @ vga will be works @ all 4 connections
like as in normal 5870 (3-eyefinity)

that's what I'm hoping for.

[skipclarke]

Perhaps I'll just get three mini DP to DP cables to keep things all the same and neat.

EDIT: Saying that, doesn't seem they are that common... Will have to be converters then...

I'm with you. Go for nice and neat. Here they are at MonoPrice. Bout half way down.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10246

[ChainSOV]

I am wondering if mini dp @ vga will be works @ all 4 connections
like as in normal 5870 (3-eyefinity)

I wonder if the packaged dvi adapters offer dvi-i or just dvi-d.
I haven't read anything on dp mini offering vga passthrough, so if they don't package some special adapters that bring it out with dvi-i, you will probably need 6 active dp>vga adapters

[Magic Man]

[quote]Perhaps I'll just get three mini DP to DP cables to keep things all the same and neat.

EDIT: Saying that, doesn't seem they are that common... Will have to be converters then...

I'm with you. Go for nice and neat. Here they are at MonoPrice. Bout half way down.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10246

Nice selection, nice price...
...now find me the same in the UK... :(

[Paradigm Shifter]

Nice selection, nice price...
...now find me the same in the UK... :(

No chance.

[shawnoen]

I'm curious to know the physical size of this card. Hoping its not as big as the 5970....

Very excited to sell my dual SLI GTX 285s and try Eyefinity. Just have to get a card and a 3rd U2410.

[BHawthorne]

I'm curious to know the physical size of this card. Hoping its not as big as the 5970....

Very excited to sell my dual SLI GTX 285s and try Eyefinity. Just have to get a card and a 3rd U2410.

As far as I can tell it's just a 5870 with different port out setup.

[Racer_S]

Max is 37 million pixels..? unbelievable. I think my setup is only 5m.

[suiken_2mieu]

With this thing you could run 18 monitors using 6 triplehead2go's. Granted they would only go to 3840x1024 each but it would be impressive none-the-less.

11520x2048 (45:8 Aspect) No I surely doubt you can render anything at that res in DirectX but that would still be massively impressive.

And now that I think about it, it's possible to do a 3x3 format with a normal 5870 and 3 triplehead2go's. Though it you wanted any sort of wide screen it would have to be lower resolution than 1280x1024 per panel, and you would get really any aspect advantage. :/

[SunSp*t]

Does anyone know if Eyefinity 6 will support 5 X 1 or 6 X 1, depending on display resolution. As I understand it, Eyefinity 6 has a 8K X 8K pixel limit when it comes to output resolutions. BTW. This is similar to Dual Quadraplex...

Yes, someone knows. :D

5x1 is not currently supported. 6x1 is currently supported. The limit of 8K in any dimension must be adhered to independently of the monitor configuration.

You would think we would support any arbitrary nx1 configuration, yet we don't at this time. That will come later.

[suiken_2mieu]

[quote]Does anyone know if Eyefinity 6 will support 5 X 1 or 6 X 1, depending on display resolution. As I understand it, Eyefinity 6 has a 8K X 8K pixel limit when it comes to output resolutions. BTW. This is similar to Dual Quadraplex...

Yes, someone knows. :D

5x1 is not currently supported. 6x1 is currently supported. The limit of 8K in any dimension must be adhered to independently of the monitor configuration.

You would think we would support any arbitrary nx1 configuration, yet we don't at this time. That will come later.
Especially because 720p per-monitor would work, so Would 1600x900, for 16:10 1440x900 would also work, in fact 1600x1000 would work if you had a monitor that had decent scalars. the greatest possible res at the 8192 pixil limit would be 1638x921 (5x16:9) and 1638x1024 (5x16:10). Not that those are really applicable. Also about this limit we have a user who got 8400x1050 working with Eyefinity+SoftTH on Dirt2, my question is why haven't we been able to just have custom resolutions defined by the user? Even if you keep the same restriction where every monitor must has the same resolution, why cant we define our own resolutions? nVidia has done this for years.

[thatdude90210]

Check this out, the Powercolor HD 5770 Eyefinity 5 (not a typo). If you count the outputs it's correct. That's a 5 mini DP output card.

[suiken_2mieu]

Check this out, the Powercolor HD 5770 Eyefinity 5 (not a typo). If you count the outputs it's correct. That's a 5 mini DP output card.

so they're gonna release hardware without driver support?

[Paradigm Shifter]

so they're gonna release hardware without driver support?

Wouldn't be the first time that a manufacturer has done that...

Might be a 'beta' driver included on the driver CD. That happens a lot, too.

[dirtypop]

Hm, Fudzilla seems to think AMD has delayed the 5876 from March 11th to the end of the month:

According to AIB partners, AMD has delayed its Eyefinity card and the new date is set of somewhere at the end of this month.

As you probably know, the card was previously scheduled for official launch on March 11th but for some unknown reason, AMD decided to push it back. Our best guess is that it still needs to tweak the drivers a bit more.

Those with deep pockets that are eagerly waiting for Eyefinity 6 cards will have to wait a bit longer.

That's no good.

[duniek]

[quote]Does anyone know if Eyefinity 6 will support 5 X 1 or 6 X 1, depending on display resolution. As I understand it, Eyefinity 6 has a 8K X 8K pixel limit when it comes to output resolutions. BTW. This is similar to Dual Quadraplex...

Yes, someone knows. :D

5x1 is not currently supported. 6x1 is currently supported. The limit of 8K in any dimension must be adhered to independently of the monitor configuration.

You would think we would support any arbitrary nx1 configuration, yet we don't at this time. That will come later.

no 5x1? fail :?

main reason why I want to buy this card is 5x1 support bcoz softTH is slower about 30% than regular 3-eyefinity

[Magic Man]

I thought one of the main points of Eyefinity was that you could assign any number of supported outputs to a group, i.e. two or three on a three output card; two three, four, five or six on a six output card...

Surely the software/drivers are written to do what they do across n number of outputs. It seems almost like a software glitch to say they currently can't do a span of five at the moment - does that mean they can't do anything other than three or six? Why not?

[skipclarke]

Does anyone know if Eyefinity 6 will support 5 X 1 or 6 X 1, depending on display resolution. As I understand it, Eyefinity 6 has a 8K X 8K pixel limit when it comes to output resolutions. BTW. This is similar to Dual Quadraplex...

I can confirm that 5x1 is in the works in portrait mode. I have sources that confirmed that progress is being made on the 5x1-P mode with an internal driver release at ATI. I don't have a copy yet (or six monitors yet), but I can promise that the WSGF is at the top of the list to get this driver when support is ready.

I got Bezel Compensation months before it was announced in the 10.3 preview. 5x1-P may not be ready at Eyefinity6 launch (I don't know one way or the other), but I can assure you that your patience will be rewarded.

[doublejj0305]

Very good news!!

[Magic Man]

Good stuff