Eye Infinity

umboma · 8 Jul 2011 at 08:23

Hello all,

Sorry for asking such a dumb question, but i've seen some pictures of this Eye Infinity and it looks interesting, how do I get this working I currently have 2x Geforce GTX 470 in sli, obviously I would buy 3 new matching monitors??

Many thanks in advance.

rxmac · 8 Jul 2011 at 08:30

Eyefinity is an AMD/ATI "thing, the Nvidia equivalent is Nvidia surround.

Not having done it myself i am not sure how to go about setting it up, sorry.

olivier renault · 8 Jul 2011 at 08:32

Eyefinity is only for ATI cards. NVidia has Surround.

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/3d-vision-surround-technology-uk.html

You need SLI for NVidia Surround, while ATI Eyefinity is supported with just one card (with DVI + DVI + Displayport).

As for the matching monitors, I'm not sure.

[Ninja'd].

umboma · 8 Jul 2011 at 08:37

Ahhh, I'll check out Surround! is it easy to set up and would my GPU's be good enough to run it at 1080 ,1920?

Also does all games support nvidia surround?

sorry for all the questions

MagusUK · 8 Jul 2011 at 08:51

That will really depend on the game but more than likely with a pair of 470's you will need to reduce graphical settings to let it run smoothly & remember that when you say 1900 x 1080, that is per screen, so the game will actually be running at 5940 x 3240 resolution.

hybrid572 · 8 Jul 2011 at 09:30

Triple screen gaming is likely to leave you with *roughly* a third of the FPS that you'd get on a single screen, so for smooth, uninterrupted play, you'd need to turn it down to settings that would normally push out ~120FPS on a single screen.

hybrid572 · 8 Jul 2011 at 09:31

MagusUK said:
That will really depend on the game but more than likely with a pair of 470's you will need to reduce graphical settings to let it run smoothly & remember that when you say 1900 x 1080, that is per screen, so the game will actually be running at 5940 x 3240 resolution.

Actually it'd be running at 5760x1080, unless he plans on running 9 monitors in a 3x3 configuration.

umboma · 8 Jul 2011 at 10:23

hmmm, so my main worry would be I might be loseing a lot of quility from the games I play!!..

Anyonw know of any videos that shows this being played with gforce470 in sli? that way I may be able to get a rough idea

Martini1991 · 8 Jul 2011 at 10:30

MagusUK said:
That will really depend on the game but more than likely with a pair of 470's you will need to reduce graphical settings to let it run smoothly & remember that when you say 1900 x 1080, that is per screen, so the game will actually be running at 5940 x 3240 resolution.

1.) You mean 1920x1080.
2.) You mean 5760x1080.

hybrid572 said:
Triple screen gaming is likely to leave you with *roughly* a third of the FPS that you'd get on a single screen, so for smooth, uninterrupted play, you'd need to turn it down to settings that would normally push out ~120FPS on a single screen.

Why would he get a third of the performance? Yes, there's a performance hit, a significant one, but it's not as great as you think.

Captain Chaos · 8 Jul 2011 at 11:46

ive had a 3 screen setup with

2 x gtx 285s

2 x gtx 480s

and finally 1 x gtx 590

gtx 285 barely managed

gtx 480 managed but you have to compromise on some settings

gtx 590 blitzed it apart from with crysis 2 with res pack. Never played metro

Mockingbird · 8 Jul 2011 at 11:54

Why would he get a third of the performance? Yes, there's a performance hit, a significant one, but it's not as great as you think.

Well, logically, it's triple the number of pixels compared to one screen.

Obviously, that's only part of the equation, so it won't be actually FPS/3, but it's not a terrible estimate. (assuming that the previous single-screen setting had your GPUs working at 100% of course).

Martini1991 · 9 Jul 2011 at 19:16

Mockingbird said:
Well, logically, it's triple the number of pixels compared to one screen.

Obviously, that's only part of the equation, so it won't be actually FPS/3, but it's not a terrible estimate. (assuming that the previous single-screen setting had your GPUs working at 100% of course).

No it's not tripple.
It's tripple horizontally only.

umboma · 9 Jul 2011 at 19:20

so will x2 470 cards be good enough??

Surveyor · 9 Jul 2011 at 19:20

Martini1991 said:
No it's not tripple.
It's tripple horizontally only.

And that's triple the total number of pixels which is what Mockingbird said.

Martini1991 · 10 Jul 2011 at 12:50

Surveyor said:
And that's triple the total number of pixels which is what Mockingbird said.

I'm just pratting around tbf. Having used eyefinity, the performance drop isn't 66%.

Jimmyboyo · 10 Jul 2011 at 12:55

Triple horizontally is triple. Triple horizontally AND vertically would be x9 pixels

Martini1991 · 10 Jul 2011 at 12:56

Jimmyboyo said:
Triple horizontally is triple. Triple horizontally AND vertically would be x9 pixels

I know, as stated above, I'm being a prat

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But the performance drop isn't 66%.

Buchanan0204 · 10 Jul 2011 at 13:30

I've just ventured into Eyefinity also. I'm running 5760x1080 on a single 6970. It maxes out Black Ops no problems. Bad Company 2 on max settings is around 35-40FPS. However this may be due to my Q6600.

I really haven't noticed a third of the performance, definitely not the case with me. More like half.

I'm sure your 470's will be able to play games no problem at all.

Monitors do not have to be matching at all. However, it would look very strange if they didn't.

old gamer · 10 Jul 2011 at 14:00

I found the loss was about 50%, i think 470 sli would cope well with 3 screens, check out widescreen gaming forum there's some good info there