Will my 6700XT run three monitors?

Astraeus

Astraeus

Astraeus

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Having done hours of research into a monitor upgrade that does justice to my new system, I'm settled on a three-monitor setup with IPS panels.

Mine is a productivity set up mostly - working from home on long documents and spreadsheets - with photo editing as a hobby. There is then a smattering of gaming on MSFS, Cities Skylines and Civ6. Nothing fast or FPS-precious. I just can't see that VA panels fit my needs, which puts flat IPS panels front and centre.

I've then weighed up two monitors but that bezel is a killer on games, whereas a central monitor with two shoulders is far better for me.

I'm still looking at precisely which model but, assuming three 1440p monitors, would a Sapphire 6700XT be OK to run those?
 
It should be fine to run them, Sapphire's tech page says it can support up to 4, but depending on the refresh rate, idle power consumption may increase considerably.

According to TPU's review, it can go from 7 to 33 watt and I'd imagine 33 watt will need active cooling :o

One possible alternative is use the IGP for the non-gaming monitors (I think Ryzen 7000 may even have passthrough).
 
Astraeus said:
Having done hours of research into a monitor upgrade that does justice to my new system, I'm settled on a three-monitor setup with IPS panels.

Mine is a productivity set up mostly - working from home on long documents and spreadsheets - with photo editing as a hobby. There is then a smattering of gaming on MSFS, Cities Skylines and Civ6. Nothing fast or FPS-precious. I just can't see that VA panels fit my needs, which puts flat IPS panels front and centre.

I've then weighed up two monitors but that bezel is a killer on games, whereas a central monitor with two shoulders is far better for me.

I'm still looking at precisely which model but, assuming three 1440p monitors, would a Sapphire 6700XT be OK to run those?
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Run them, as in give you a display? Sure, it has enough display port cables on the back of the card.

Game on them all? That's a res of 7680x1440. Over eleven million pixels to push. That's more than 4k by nearly three million pixels. It won't be pretty on any game really unless it's quite an old one.
 
So I'm looking at:

2x Gigabyte FI27QX for £550
2x Gigabyte FI27Q for £450
2x Dell S2721SGF for £400
1x Dell S3423DWC for £280
1x Dell S3422DWG for £280

Obviously there's a big range of prices there but are the Gigabytes worth paying that much extra for? They look like a bargain compared to MSRP but do they offer that much more than the ultrawide Dells?
 
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