AMD’s latest graphic card makes an impressive stand-out. Its new Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition card stands in desolate contrast to the GeForce GTX 480. Company representatives moved around the country last month, dropping six-display setups on tech press like high-resolution 5760×2160 pixels. Pictures and videos of these amazing activities made their way online.
Over the course of the past six months, AMD’s driver team has been operational on the software backing Eyefinity 6. And while all of the twist still not worked out, setting up and using intricate display configurations is much easier now than it was a month ago when the first Catalyst build landed in the lab. The only thing prohibition up until now was performance data. If you’re using six Display-Port monitors, this is what you’ll see. At 11” long, the Eyefinity 6 card is the exact same length as AMD’s reference Radeon HD 5870 1GB. Because it includes a second gigabyte of GDDR5 memory, it needs one eight-pin and one six-pin auxiliary power connector in comparison, the 1GB Radeon HD 5870 employs two six-pin connectors. Idle power creeps up from 27W on the 1GB card to 34W on the 2GB card and maximum board power ramps up from 188W to 228W, an increase of 40W.
It comes with a larger frame safeguard as the Eyefinity 6 card sports six display outputs in the form of Mini DisplayPort connectors. Each output provides resolution up to 2560×1600. Sling six of those together and if looking at a 7680×3200 surface large enough to bring any 1GB card to its knees.
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