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Quad Full High Definition???

"A few days ago, AMD demo’d WoW running seamlessly on six Dell 30″ monitors, 7680×3200 resolution, at playable frame rates from a single Eyefinity card. Dirt 2 was also running, full DX11, again at playable frame rates, from the same card. Left4Dead stuttered a bit here and there, but was very playable. At 7K+ resolution from one card, that is not bad at all."
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Taken from an article written at the end of 2009. 7k much?!

Eyefinity offers comparable resolutions and 7970s seem more than able in multi-gpu configurations to push playable frame rates with 3/4/5 screens. Expensive yes, but by no means out of reach. The only thing were waiting on is panels that offer those resolutions on 1 screen.
 
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Yeah triple screen is sort close(ish) but still only half the vertical resolution and of course people would want to triple screen these monitors too.

At least we could leave AA turned off :D
 
Eyefinity isn't limited to just 3 screens though, you could do 6 screens 3x2 to get your res and i'm sure quadfire, perhaps in trifire would be up to that? I see people running BF3 in crossfire running respectable frame rates on triple screen setups.
 
I find it absurd that mobile and tablet displays are making massive strides in resolution (720p and higher currently) and better quality panels (IPS, PLS, OLED), yet desktop and laptop screens are making little or no progress (and in some cases doing the opposite).

It's even more annoying when you consider that the extra resolution would be far more useful on a laptop/desktop screen running in an Windows environment. Why the hell do you need such high res and quality screen on a mobile device? All the phone OS does is just make the fonts sharper, you don't actually get much more desktop space, otherwise things would be too small to see (unless you have a magnifying glass handy).

It's great that they're doing these things on mobiles and tablets, but I think it's far more important that desktops and laptop screens get better panels, where the extra resolution and screen quality will be far more useful to the user (rather than cool gadget to wow your friends with as the case of mobiles). Just look at laptops. Most of them are stuck with crappy 1366x768 TN panels on massive 15.6" screens - the pixels are massive and ugly to look at.
 
titaniumx3 said:
I find it absurd that mobile and tablet displays are making massive strides in resolution (720p and higher currently) and better quality panels (IPS, PLS, OLED), yet desktop and laptop screens are making little or no progress (and in some cases doing the opposite).

It's even more annoying when you consider that the extra resolution would be far more useful on a laptop/desktop screen running in an Windows environment. Why the hell do you need such high res and quality screen on a mobile device? All the phone OS does is just make the fonts sharper, you don't actually get much more desktop space, otherwise things would be too small to see (unless you have a magnifying glass handy).

It's great that they're doing these things on mobiles and tablets, but I think it's far more important that desktops and laptop screens get better panels, where the extra resolution and screen quality will be far more useful to the user (rather than cool gadget to wow your friends with as the case of mobiles). Just look at laptops. Most of them are stuck with crappy 1366x768 TN panels on massive 15.6" screens - the pixels are massive and ugly to look at.
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See here for some good news:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18367154
 
titaniumx3 said:
It's great that they're doing these things on mobiles and tablets, but I think it's far more important that desktops and laptop screens get better panels, where the extra resolution and screen quality will be far more useful to the user (rather than cool gadget to wow your friends with as the case of mobiles). Just look at laptops. Most of them are stuck with crappy 1366x768 TN panels on massive 15.6" screens - the pixels are massive and ugly to look at.
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Does make me laugh when I see 720p type resolutions on laptops... my phone is 1280x800 :D
 
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Does make me laugh when I see 720p type resolutions on laptops... my phone is 1280x800 :D
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To be fair though, the note is pretty big for a phone and pentile subpixel layout offers lower effective resolution than the usuak rgb layout that laptop screens use. Also most 720p laptops are actually using 1366x768 panels, which is slightly more pixels than 1280x800. :D

... But seriously though I agree, the whole situation is laughable.
 
It makes sense to have high res on a small screen - if you want to fit text and detailed graphics, it needs a much higher resolution than a desktop monitor does.
1920x1200/1080 on a 24" screen is good enough - for most purposes you aren't going to see an improvement by increasing it.
 
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