Discussion On The ATI Radeon 5*** Series Before They Have Been Released Thread

[SfnX]

plus with 2gig u rly need thatfor six id say

 

[Fenris]

Whatever card it is (looks like single 5870), it's quadfire.

 

[skippy2421]

Multi monitors etc...

Personally I would be more than happy with a pair of wrap around OLED glasses that track your heads movement... (all the better if they were 3D) compared to these huge displays costing so much and taking up so much space.
Different if you want to impress all your mates together though or you have a small manhood.

You say that, but what you're suggesting isn't going to work for everybody. For example i want to play a driving sim i whack on my glasses and oh wait now i can't see my steering wheel/pedals/gearstick. There are numerous examples where this wont work.

I believe it's a 5870 2GB running the six monitor setups, as they say that feature won't be available for a few weeks.

I thought it may of been the 2gb version to drive all those monitors but didn't want to guess. So i imagine the 1gb versions of these cards are going to struggle with multi monitors. hmmm a 5870x2 with 4 gig of ram sounds impressive doesn't it even if 2 gigs of it is mirrored lol

Ok maybe not so impressive if it's using 4 cards to run that. Anybody know how many screens one card will run and by run i mean actually be usable with?

EDIT: forget that question just saw your previous post fenris, so by that calculation it's pretty much 3 displays per card. However the fact ram is mirrored between cards leads to another question how will 2 gig cope with 6+ monitors? Have they devised something new for this?

 

[glowball]

You say that, but what you're suggesting isn't going to work for everybody. For example i want to play a driving sim i whack on my glasses and oh wait now i can't see my steering wheel/pedals/gearstick. There are numerous examples where this wont work.

Bottom of glasses could be semi-see through HUD like - just a thought but get your point.

 

[skippy2421]

Bottom of glasses could be semi-see through HUD like - just a thought but get your point.

lol now you lose half your viewing space, i can see where you would find this useful for example fps and some RTS's and MMOs but couldn't be used as a direct replacement for monitors i don't think.

 

[gareth170]

this thread as turned in to all about multi-screen, so boaring. yes its good that the 5800 series can drive 6 screens, but its nothing special. it was for sure something like this would happen at some point.

 

[Fenris]

this thread as turned in to all about multi-screen, so boaring. yes its good that the 5800 series can drive 6 screens, but its nothing special. it was for sure something like this would happen at some point.

Got anything else to talk about? no? then stop complaining, we will talk about other stuff when we KNOW about other stuff.

Also, there is quite a large demographic of gamers who use multi screen set ups, also a lot of non gamers that do the same, so this "is" something special, just not for you.

 

[SfnX]

its a feature from the new ati cards which is a topic that can be discussed! sry if that didnt make sense

 

[nathanc]

I think this is all very exciting stuff... before long we might even have transparent multi GPU scaling!

 

[alexthecheese]

Can we have a new thread when the actual specs and what not are released? Ta.

 

[glowball]

Come back in 2 weeks

 

[SKILL]

I thought it may of been the 2gb version to drive all those monitors but didn't want to guess. So i imagine the 1gb versions of these cards are going to struggle with multi monitors. hmmm a 5870x2 with 4 gig of ram sounds impressive doesn't it even if 2 gigs of it is mirrored lol

EDIT: forget that question just saw your previous post fenris, so by that calculation it's pretty much 3 displays per card. However the fact ram is mirrored between cards leads to another question how will 2 gig cope with 6+ monitors? Have they devised something new for this?

5870's, I think X-fire for 6 and quadfire for the 18.

I think.

There was a rumour posted earlier that there are 2 different 5870's, the 'vanilla' (1Gb) version with 2x DVI, HDMI and Displayport, and the 'Six' which has 2Gb memory and 6x Displayport outputs (not sure if they're full size displayport, or mini-displayport though). It was also rumoured that the vanilla version would be limited to just 3 outputs per card.

The interesting thing was the 24 monitor Flight Sim X display, which would imply that when using Crossfire (or Quadfire) you not only get the performance increase but also double the number of monitors you can drive. Of course it could be that they weren't actually running Crossfire so it was just extra displays on the card, but then it would be useless as the framerate for 24 displays would be stupidly low

 

[AMG]

these things are crazy

i wants but not till next year, think they would be fine with a Q9550 as i cba to upgrade as there is no need

 

[Zenduri]

From tomshardware, dunno on the charts original source!

Was posted under a hour ago

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-270081_15_0.html

 

[magnuswinwick]

Might be garbage, might be true...

 

[Fenris]

Well if it is real, I think the only appropriate response would be, BWAH?!

 

[SfnX]

*hugs magnus*
hope that info is true!

 

[AMG]

it seems about right on the HD4890 CF, as I get about 34-40 frame rates mine are overclocked slightly through

 

[Zenduri]

oi i got there first!!!! Give ME credit! rofl

 

[Fenris]

oi i got there first!!!! Give ME credit! rofl

/credit

You understand that if this is bogus you are gonna burn right?