Hands-on: Radeon HD 6990 Running Eyefinity 5x1
Today we paid a visit to AMD's offices in Markham, Ontario and we got an early look at a couple of new technologies.
One thing that should please gamers with lots of the same model of monitors is an Eyefinity configuration called 5x1, which means five monitors all lined up in a single row.
Rather than have them laid out in their normal 16:9 or 16:10 widescreen modes, the set up that we saw had the LCDs in portrait mode. This effectively gave the effect of both a wide peripheral view, as well as something with a bit more vertical coverage. (We also figure that having five monitors in landscape mode would give a far too extreme field-of-view.)
Having the 5x1 setup with portrait monitors would also prove to be a more cost effective way of getting big, widescreen gaming without having to spring for an Eyefinity 3 setup composed of 30-inch LCDs that cost north of the four-digit range.
The setup we saw was running off the dual-Cayman Antilles Radeon HD 6990 card, which pumped pixels to the five displays quite smoothly in the demos we got to see of Dirt 3 and Dragon Age 2. (We'll clarify the total resolution with AMD and update this article.)
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Crazy drunk drivers!
I always think to myself, my don't these peple just get a projector?
Really cool, I couldn't put up with all the black bands from the monitor bezels interupting the whole picture. I think it's about time someone worked out how to get a series of panels each independant without the border issues.
5 projectors! bezel free gaming!