The guys at Guru3D pop in one of the new Eyefinity capable ATI Radeon’s and take it for a test drive. The results are impressive, but I question how many people can really make effective use of 3 monitors?
Why would you want to use more than one monitor ? Well looking at myself, I’m sitting in front of two 24″ monitors right now. More monitors will increase productivity. But also in a more SoHo or personal environment, how nice is it to have a video stream displaying say the news on one screen and your spreadsheet in the other. That idea you can now expand to say three, four or even more monitors.
Also, it may have been a good idea to choose a more “work-safe” background for the demo shots. On Page 6 they have video showing Crysis, Devil May Cry 4, and HAWX running on the 3 screens. See the videos after the break.
via ATI Eyfinity review.
Crysis:
HAWX:
Devil May Cry 4:
After reading the reviews it seems like the limits for Eyefinity are:
* Limited to a 8000×8000 desktop
* Single Monitor setup in 2560×1600
* Dual Monitors setup in 2560×1600 per monitor
* Three monitors setup in 2560×1600 per monitor
* Six monitors setup in 1920×1080 per monitor
* Windows Vista or Windows 7 O.S.
* Linux O.S. will be available in the future
* You will need at least 1 DisplayPort panel to get a 3 monitor setup
* It is advised that you get two 5870s to run in Crossfire to be able to game across 3 monitors.
* For games like Crysis, you will still be GPU bound.
HardOCP also has a review of ATI’s Eyefinity with a video:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2009/09/28/amds_ati_eyefinity_technology_review