Nvidia 3D Vision Surround

[R088ieS86]

COMING SOON
Support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Technology on GeForce 400/200 Series GPUs requires NVIDIA Driver Release 256* or higher. (*Scheduled for April 2010)

•Operating System
◦Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit


•GPU support (NVIDIA SLI or multi-GPU cards are required)
◦SLI Configurations
■GeForce GTX 480, 470, 285, 280, 275, 260
◦Single card
■GeForce GTX 295


•Motherboard
◦SLI Motherboard is required for SLI configuraitons
◦The GeForce GTX 295 card works on all motherboards


•NVIDIA Surround Modes
◦NVIDIA Surround
■Three displays or projectors synchronized together
■Landscape and portrait mode
■All displays must have the same resolution, refresh rate, and sync polarity


◦NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround
■Three displays or projectors synchronized together
■Landscape mode only for displays, projectors can operate in landscape or portrait mode
■All displays must be the same make and model 3D Vision-Ready displays. For a full list of 3D Vision-Ready display devices, please check this website.

I know just about every thread in here is bashing the 470/480's but Nvidia don't help themselves. This is more my disappointment than anything. I have had cards from both sides, my 7600Gt Sli's are still running on one of my PCs and my media PC uses the 5670.

Its just a little annoying that with all the power running through these new cards i was hoping they could at least keep up with ATI's eyefinity.

It seems though that their new cards require SLI or a multi-gpu alternative to run 3 screens.
This isn't concrete because this is 3D vision surround rather than just surround, does anyone know if you can run 3 non 3D screen on just a single card?

 

[RavenXXX2]

Yes you need SLI for just the surround vision, can't see why they couldn't have done it with one card, oh yes I can, it's nvidia, they want all your cash for needles things.

 

[R088ieS86]

what about for regular 3 screen use?

 

[Duran]

i would wait for Ati's offering we all know its going to be the best and the most affordable

 

[phr4n]

Cheaper to just get a matrox triple head than shell out on a second card, doesn't that defeat the point?

EDIT: Actually, getting a cheap 260 or 275 for SLi may work out slightly cheaper (still costs) wouldnt mind seeing some benches on the lower end, Im guessing the 8800 series wont fetch them enough money to have it implemented. Still have 2x 8800GT laying around somewhere, there must be some technological hump holding the cards back, surely..

 

[Baboonanza]

From what ATi have said it sounds like triple monitor support requires some hardware in the GPU. They kept Eyefinity secret right up until the 58xx release so that nVidia didn't get enough notice to implement it themselves.

Because of this nVidia have to do it in software and can't control enough outputs on one card, thus the SLi requirement. It's not a sales tactic, they really can't do it with one card. I would think all of the card you see with 3 outputs have the displayport slaved to one of the other ports, giving only 2 outputs that can be used independently.

 

[unknownsock]

Yes you need SLI for just the surround vision, can't see why they couldn't have done it with one card, oh yes I can, it's nvidia, they want all your cash for needles things.

It's because they are doing it via software, just like SoftTH

From what ATi have said it sounds like triple monitor support requires some hardware in the GPU. They kept Eyefinity secret right up until the 58xx release so that nVidia didn't get enough notice to implement it themselves.

Because of this nVidia have to do it in software and can't control enough outputs on one card, thus the SLi requirement. It's not a sales tactic, they really can't do it with one card. I would think all of the card you see with 3 outputs have the displayport slaved to one of the other ports, giving only 2 outputs that can be used independently.

Yup and to add the third unique port, it would cost too much on the general consumer, reason a DP port/adapter is required.