AMD launches HD 5870 Eyefinity

Runs six displays on one card.

AMD is launching the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics card today.

AMD claims it is the first card capable of rendering in excess of 1 billion pixels per second, offering 12 times more resolution than 1080p HD.

Most GPUs require two or three cards to run six displays. AMD's play is that the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition reduces cost of ownership for a six-screen display. There's no price information for this HD 5870 available yet but, with previous form on AMD's bleeding-edge cards, it is probably going to cost about as much as six budget graphics cards.

AMD touts good support for the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity. It has support in the game development community and updates included the ATI Catalyst graphics driver software. These factors promise an improved ATI Eyefinity experience with regular updates and new features. AMD also claims that partner programmes will help punters identify ATI Eyefinity-validated components.

"The ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics card opens the door to a new era in personal computing," said Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager of AMD's Graphics Division.

"With the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, PC users get the ultimate panoramic computing experience in one powerful card. By bridging the innovation in ATI Eyefinity technology with broad ecosystem support, AMD is revolutionizing the PC visual experience."

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6 Comments

RaRaDawg Apr 1, 2010 12:23 PM	It's in PCCG!! I saw it the other day... or was that yesterday?
orcone Apr 1, 2010 1:06 PM	This is the worst April Fool's joke ever.
philo-sofa Apr 1, 2010 1:22 PM	^^ lol :) If so the setup's been a long time coming - they announced these (6x mini DP ports, 2GB memory)half a year ago. I have to concede it does look a lot like an April fools, but it's not.
jeffbourke Apr 1, 2010 10:01 PM	Pointless at the moment because in a 3 monitor setup which is what most people will use eyefinity for: 1) Games that would actually be useful like Team Fortress 2 limit the players horazontal Feild of View (FOV) to about 90 degrees for everyone. So having a wider screen just stretches the same picture everyone else has and reduces YOUR vertical FOV. 2) The pictures at the outer limits appears very distorted because in practice people have the angle the side screens so that the screen is perpendicular to the viewer. The actualy game does not take this into account and just works with one really wide screen. Example: 3x22" monitors 5040x1050. Angling the side monitors towards the viewer increases their percieved FOV (the monitors take up more of their view) but the actual game FOV doesn't take this into account and hence the viewer gets a warped image. in a 6 monitor setup: Current bezel sizes are just too big at the moment to make a 6 monitor setup visually attractive. I do believe samsung are working on some ultra thin bezel monitors at the moment but from memory even the new "thin" bezels wheren't really thin enough for most people to have them shooting through the middle of their screen. Think about it. Most people get pretty annoyed when they get a dead pixel. Now imagine having 3 black lines extended right through your picture.
hazarama Apr 1, 2010 10:47 PM	@jeffbourke .. if you really wanted a 6 monitor setup you would use open frame (no bezel, near seamless) with a custom enclosure and end up with something like this: http://www.9xmedia.com/Images/billboards/PMC-multi-screen.jpg
jeffbourke Apr 2, 2010 12:09 AM	wow hadn't seen open frame LCDs before. I still can't stand the god aweful black lines through the picture. If you want a big screen get a projector, LCD TV, or move your monitor closer. If you want high resolution get a 30" dual DVI link monitor. Eyefinity is a big fail IMO

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